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Every person who comes through the doors of Wagley Funeral Home receives personal, attentive and caring service. First and foremost, we listen to you, provide suggestions if you need them, and offer heartfelt compassion. No other funeral home in our area knows you like we do. We’ve been in this area for a long time, and deeply value our connection to those who live here.
We keenly know that decision-making during the hours following the loss of a loved one is difficult. We offer the extensive information below because we know that many are not fully aware of the services available today. We hope it helps make your funeral planning just that much easier.
We are honored to offer the following services:
 Funerals are an important step in the grieving process, as well as an opportunity to honor a life lived. They offer surviving family members and friends a caring, supportive environment in which to share thoughts and feelings about the death. Often funerals are the first step in the healing process.
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The advantage of choosing a traditional funeral is that it follows a familiar pattern so families will know what to expect. A traditional funeral can make it easier for families and friends, because there's an established etiquette for the different stages of the ceremonies involved.
- Calling hours or visitation
- A formal service in a funeral home or church
- Procession with a hearse to escort your loved one to a cemetery
- Earth burial or entombment of the casketed remains in a mausoleum
Some of the costs associated with a traditional funeral will include:
- Personal services of the funeral director
- Embalming, dressing, cosmetology and hair arrangement
- Use of funeral home for visitations and the funeral service
- Hearse and other funeral vehicles
- Casket, vault and other goods and services
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We take great care to offer services to those in our community who are seeking more personal ways to express grief and say goodbye to a loved one. We do not seek only to ‘dress up’ the traditional funeral services, but listen closely to our families, and create truly unique, completely personal services for your loved one.
Some popular ways in which our client families have personalized funerals include:
- Display arts, crafts, or other personal artifacts that were cherished by the deceased
- Lead the funeral procession past some of the deceased's favorite spots.
- Hold the funeral in a favorite spot of the deceased, especially if he or she was not a churchgoer.
- Playing favorite songs during the Calling hours or service.
- Releasing balloons, at the interment, as a celebration of the life and ethereal spirit of the deceased.
- Presentation of a personalized photo display, digital or video memorial.
- Family and friends are invited to write letters containing their unspoken thoughts, which are then placed in the casket with the deceased.
- Online guest books. All comments left by Web site visitors are noted to the funeral register for the family.
- Live music played at services.
- Audio recording of the services.
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 Cremation is a rising trend among today’s families. Cremation allows families a wide variety of choices and options for services, merchandise and destination of the ashes. Cremation can take place at any time – if you choose cremation you can still have a viewing and a traditional funeral service allowing your family to have a final goodbye which often helps with the grief process.
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Wagley Funeral Home has some unique processes when it comes to cremation. We take additional steps to ensure that your loved one is taken care of by our staffed professionals. For additional details on our practices, please contact one of our staff at (517) 263-1400 . Our selection of cremation caskets and urns allows you to have selections that fit your needs and budget. Please see the Merchandise/Memorialization section for cremation caskets and urn options.
Upon cremation, families have the decision of what to do with ashes. There are many different options that families have with this in mind. Ashes can be buried at a cemetery, kept at home or displayed in an urn, or scattered. The great thing about ashes is that you can divide ashes if you’d like some at the cemetery and some scattered, or any other combination that you desire. For more information on a personalized cremation plan for you or someone in your family, feel free to call and speak with one of our trained professionals at (517) 263-1400 .
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Many people come to us believing that cremation means that you can’t have a funeral or memorial service. This is simply not true; we can assist you in arranging for a traditional funeral or memorial service, performed either before, or after,the scheduled cremation. Should you and your family wish to have a traditional funeral for your loved one; our staff can make all the arrangements, including:
- Calling hours or visitation
- A formal service in a funeral home or church
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Where a traditional funeral follows a patterned order of activities, including prayers, eulogies, songs, and in some cases, processionals; a memorial service is less structured by religious or social constraints. Our staff can help you to plan the perfect memorial service for your loved one, including:
- Non-traditional locations
- Tribute videos
- Memory Boards
- Keepsakes
- Displays of medals, awards, or other memorabilia
- Personalized music selection
As with all of the services we offer, our expert staff will help your family design a truly memorable memorial service that reflects the life of your loved one.
Additionally, we will work with your family to plan a suitable service that suits your budget. After all, we believe that you shouldn't have to pay a fortune to celebrate the treasured life of your loved one.
To learn more about the wide variety of memorial service options we offer, give us a call or stop by one of our locations. One of our caring staff members will guide you through the array of memorial services we offer and help you plan a truly distinctive service for your loved one.
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Often, the family elects to take their loved one directly to the crematory, without a funeral or memorial service. It is our intention that you or your loved one receives the services you desire – no more, and no less. Should direct cremation be your choice, our staff will provide you with a suitable cremation container, and assist you in taking your loved one to the crematory. Should you desire an informal, heart-driven ceremony at the crematory for your immediate family, we will be honored to facilitate this decision.
All veterans qualify for military funeral honors and many veteran benefits, regardless of their rank or the place of burial.
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Those who serve in the military may be eligible for special funeral and burial benefits because of their honorable service. Our staff is experienced in completing the necessary paperwork involved, and gladly takes the responsibility to do so – relieving the family of this burdensome task.
We at Wagley Funeral Home, are completely committed to providing families of the veterans in our community with unsurpassed service.
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Our Veterans are honored by the local VFW Memorial Squad, and an honor guard, specially trained in the military rites and procedure. We use both the local VFW Memorial squad and an honor guard from the local arsenal that is specially trained in funeral procedure.
- Flag holders
- Military emblems on caskets and vaults
- Printed prayer cards, memorial folders, obituary bookmarks, and Register books, all displaying the proper military insignia
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Direct burial includes local transfer of the deceased to the funeral home, required authorizations, services of funeral director and staff, transportation of the deceased by livery to local area cemetery. Our prices do not include cemetery charges.
 If your loved one dies far from Adrian, we will help you return their body to you. And, should you wish a loved one returned to their birthplace, or to another location for interment or entombment, we can make all the arrangements for you. Call us to discuss your needs.
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Every family is unique. We listen not only with our ears, but with our hearts and will consider all your financial and emotional constraints in designing a funeral or memorial service that suits your needs. No matter what your budget or your vision for your loved one’s service, we’re here to help.
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Our Life Tributes program offers a customized and animated video and a dedicated website honoring your loved one’s life. Each part of the Life Tributes program uses photos of your loved one combined with one of our various themes to create a memorial DVD that is yours to keep. This can be shown at the viewing or at a funeral service and can be viewed online.
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Families have a choice of several Register Books that provide a place for visitors to sign in at services. The books are personalized for each individual with a memory page and a page for a family record. Funeral service and burial place information are also recorded in the Register Book.
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We create folders to distribute to friends and family at services or to include in thank you notes. These folders contain a verse chosen by the family along with information about the loved one. A photo of the loved one may be included in the folders.
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Prayer Cards are personalized with birth and death information about your loved one. A verse, chosen by the family, is printed on the cards. These are handed out at services and many families choose to have extra cards printed to give to those who may not have been able to attend services.
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Thank you notes or acknowledgement cards are personalized for our families. There is a large choice of designs for the note cards and the cards contain a message that is chosen by the family. We are able to make these note cards available to the family long after the service is over.
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Various Keepsake Urns and jewelry are available for families who wish to memorialize portions of cremated remains.
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We can arrange for balloons to be released at the interment to celebrate the life and spirit of your loved one.
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Arrangements can be made to have local musicians perform during services at church, funeral home and cemetery. Most familiar songs can be requested.
 Wagley Funeral Home offers a wide variety of merchandise and memoralization items for purchase. These items help to personalize services and create a sense of uniqueness in each and every service that we provide.
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We offer a wide selection of caskets to fit our families’ needs. Our Casket Selection room is one of the largest in the area and has both full size and partial casket displays. Wood and metal caskets are available through our firm and are competitively priced. Caskets can reveal the personality of the individual and can be customized when matched with a custom cap panel or side decals. We also house the Batesville Presidential; a mahogany casket that many of our country’s dignitaries have used for their services, such as: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Mickey Mantle.
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Today, cemeteries require burial vaults for those wishing to have traditional burial. Vaults are required to withstand the weight of the equipment that they use to maintain and service the grounds. We provide clients with Doric burial vaults that come from Precast Concrete in Blissfield and are backed by guarantees and are made with quality workmanship. Burial vaults, like caskets can be personalized to fit any need.
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If you are a cremation family, we have an extensive display of memorial urns that come in all different shapes and sizes. From sun dials and chimes, to more traditional marble and wood urns. We also have scattering urns for families to wish to participate in a scattering ceremony. We also provide for our families a selection of jewelry that can hold a small amount of ashes. All of these selections are available for you to view in our selection room. We also have access to hundreds of other urns if you don’t see something you like.
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Thumbies are custom jewelry that we can help you select. The thumb print of your loved one is taken and placed on the piece of jewelry of your choice, from necklaces and earrings to cuff links and pins. Gold and silver options are available as well as personalizing it with birthstones.
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We would be happy to assist you in selecting a monument or marker for the cemetery or other final resting place. Custom engravings and picture sketching are available, as well as family stones and benches. Stop in and ask one of our trained professionals about the vast array of selections that you have when it comes to markers and monuments.
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