Thanks for the great service with Maury's funeral arrangements. Everything came off as planned…read more The Walworth family Mattoon, IL

From the owner: Most funeral homes consider their primary function to be handling remains. Instead, we think of our…read morejob as having two parts: physical and emotional. The physical is burials, entombments and inurnments. The emotional is working with families to design healing experiences. Our peaceful and intimate setting becomes a place where people find closure, renewal and togetherness. And that’s the most rewarding part of what we do.

Caring professional staff, reasonable costs for services. Cremains were ready before we expected…read more Highly recommend.

We would HIGHLY RECOMMEND Evergreen because they are Very compassionate about their job and your…read morefeelings. They went over and above what they had to for us and will never be forgotten. He accomplished something that we never thought could be done and we are extremely grateful for their service.

Tania made the experience very personal and took the time to go over every detail of things we had…read morenot thought of. The stone is beautiful and the picture etched in the granite is perfect. I am very pleased with the final product of my son's stone.

We have waited over seven months and still the stone is not installed. My Dad's mistake was paying…read morefor the stone. The stone was completed within a few weeks so we thought great. However, the only contact we have had with them is us going over there and us making the phone calls. My father is 95 years old and all he is asking for is that the stone be put in place right so he has a place to put his wife's ashes. Death of a love one is an emotional time. This company shouldn't add to that.

Most of you kids won't know who I'm talking about but the oldsters will remember watching the video…read moreof "The Man In The Water." On January 13, 1982, Air Florida flight 90 took off from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Airport) to Tampa Florida. Operated with a Boeing 737, the plane crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River after being airborne for just 30 seconds. On the bridge, it hit 7 occupied vehicles. From the plane, only four passengers and one flight attendant were rescued. Another passenger, Arland Dean Williams, Junior assisted in the rescue. A Park Police helicopter arrived shortly after the crash, lowering a line to the survivors and using it to pull them to shore. Each time the helicopter returned to pull another survivor, Williams handed the rope to another until they finally returned to him but he had been lost to the cold. Because it happened in the middle of big city and there happened to be journalists nearby, much of the response was caught by video and newspapers. The Washington Post wrote, "He was about 50 years old, one of half a dozen survivors clinging to twisted wreckage bobbing in the icy Potomac when the first helicopter arrived. To the copter's two-man Park Police crew, he seemed the most alert. Life vests were dropped, then a flotation ball. The man passed them to the others. On two occasions, the crew recalled last night, he handed away a lifeline from the hovering machine that could have dragged him to safety. The helicopter crew who rescued five people, the only persons who survived from the jetliner, lifted a woman to the riverbank, then dragged three more persons across the ice to safety. Then, the lifeline saved a woman who was trying to swim away from the sinking wreckage, and the helicopter pilot, Donald W. Usher, returned to the scene, but the man was gone." The Man In the Water is laid to rest here. There are a number of memorials to him, including in 2003, the new Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School here in Mattoon. It is a simple headstone and otherwise completely unremarkable for a hero who saved lives. [Review 1283 of 2024 - 210 in Illinois - 22306 overall]

My Father was recently buried, my whole Family was left off the obituary and instead of the flag…read moregoing to his children it went to his nephew. None of us were consulted. I guess just anyone can make arrangements for your family.

From the owner: Products: Caskets, Urns, Keepsake Urns, Vaults, Outer…read moreContainers. Services: Funeral Pre-Planning and Planning, Cremation, Cremation Services, Funeral Services. Locations Facts: 1 Block from the Historic Coles County Courthouse.