Pre-Need Arrangements
It is important to think about what kind of service you would like when you die. You
need to let your family and your funeral home know what type of funeral you desire.
Making plans in advance helps to ease confusion and decision making at the time of
need for your surviving family.

We offer two different ways to keep your service desires:
NON-FUNDED PRE-ARRANGEMENTS
With non-funded pre-arrangements, you simple let the funeral home know what your
wishes are when you die. They will keep a record of the information that they can share
with your family when the time comes. No money is paid and the arrangements have
no legal mandates.
FUNDED PRE-ARRANGEMENTS
Simply put, funded pre-arrangements are the arrangements you make with the funeral
home to pay for your funeral in advance.
We offer two ways to do this:

INSURANCE FUNDED PRE-NEED CONTRACTS
An insurance funded contract will cover the full cost of the contract funeral if the
purchaser were to die before the contract is fully paid off.
In order to qualify for an insurance funded contract, the purchaser/insured must
answer certain health questions asked by the insurance provider. If a person is in poor
health, and answers the questions accordingly,and dies within the two year
contestability period from date of contract issue, the insurance company has the right
to not pay the funeral bill.
Monthly payments are higher on an insurance funded contract depending on the age
and health of the insured.
The contracts can be paid out over 3, 5, or 10 year plans.

ANNUITY FUNDED PRE-NEED CONTRACTS
An annuity contract is what we call a "dollar for dollar" contract. It can be paid monthly
in payment amounts of the purchasers choice until the contract is paid off. But, only
money paid into the policy will be put towards the funeral at time of need. In other
words, if the purchaser pays in $1,000 on a $2,000 policy and then dies before paying
the balance, only the $1,000 paid in will be credited towards the funeral bill. The unpaid
balance of the contract will be due at the time of need.
This option is good for people in poor health or people who can't afford a high monthly
payment but want to start paying for their funeral now.
Pre-Need policies with
our funeral home are
secure.
There has been a lot of press
about funeral homes stealing the
money that a family pays in for a
pre-need contract.
It is important that when you
purchase a pre-need contract
from a reputable funeral home,
that you receive a copy of the
contract you purchased, a receipt
for the monies you paid in and
receive a letter and insurance
policy from the issuing insurance
company.
In Texas, the Texas Department
of Banking oversees all prepaid
contracts. Information can be
obtained  from
www.prepaidfunerals.texas.gov
Tell your family
It is important that your family
knows your plans in advance so
when the time comes they can
can look to the funeral home for
direction. Tell them you made
pre-arrangements.
Cash Advance Items
Remember, cash advance items
are not included in your pre-paid
contract.
Examples of cash advance items
are: Death certificates, obituary,
honorariums, flowers, escorts,
crematory or cemetery fees, or
any other third party item.