Our Services

Our funeral home staff is available 24 hours a day to provide service and consultation. Your loved one was one of a kind and we would be honored to help you provide a fitting memorial.  When you make final arrangements in familiar settings it creates an atmosphere of comfort and wiser decisions.  Our funeral homes have served the greater Carbondale / Simpson area for over 100 years allow us to help you.   We will also complete all required state and county authorizations and Social Security notification on all services.  Our staff is able to assist with all religious beliefs and church customs.

Our funeral homes offer Traditional Funeral service options, Preplanning Options and Cremation Service Options.  We can additional assist families we serve by providing:

PERSONALIZATION:

We can help create a service to represent the life of your loved one. The ability to offer the following items allows you to tailor the service and make it more memorable.

• Video tributes
• On Line Condolences
• Memorial Candles
• Printed Memorial folders and Prayer Cards.
• Selected theme panel casket inserts
• Engraving choices on a casket, vault or urn

 

 

GRAVESITE SERVICE:

A Gravesite service is at the cemetery and may include earth burial or mausoleum entombment.  A simple service that can be religious or include scripture passages, music, poetry, veterans service of words of remembrance by relatives and friends.

GREEN BURIALS:

Green Burials are selected by families who are conscience of our environment. Some of the main objectives of green burials are to decrease the carbon footprint from a funeral.  This method is less than the 350-600 lbs. of carbon emission that is generated even with most cremations. Generally the deceased is buried without embalming ( no formaldehyde), in a biodegradable casket and no burial vault.  Green cemeteries remind us of transition back to the earth and many times are fields. There are no traditional cemetery markers or memorials.  Our staff can accommodate your wishes please ask for additional information. Services are conducted at the gravesite.

OUT OF TOWN SERVICE:

 

Our funeral home are prepared to assist with a death in a distant community or a loved one who has passed away here and going home to a distant city.  We have the ability with our affiliations to coordinate all details and decrease the anxiety and expenses involved. We have personally assisted families with death throughout the United States, Europe, South America and India.

AFTER CARE:
The Joseph Scotchlas Funeral Home & Oliver Shifler and Scotchlas Funeral Home provide our families with the continuing series a “Journey in Grief”.  We also provide pamphlets on:

 

 

• Death of a Child
• Loss of Son or Daughter
• Suicide

We also suggest the following links: —-

Compassionate Friends:

Wayne County Chapter, c/o Wayne Memorial Hospital, Honesdale   570-253-8100

Lackawanna County Chapter, c/o  Community Medical Center, Scranton  570-969-8000

Bereavement Groups:

Mercy Hospital Hospice, Scranton- “Family & Friends”  570-340-4981

VNA Hospice Bereavement Group, Olyphant  570-383-5180

Tri County Human Services ( Mental Health & Counseling), Carbondale  570-

282-1732

Center for Loss & Life Transitions    www.centerforloss.com

NOTARY SERVICE:

We provide notary service to families we serve. This can also be important to family members who cannot leave their home. We will come to your home or nursing home to have documents witnessed.