Do not use this funeral home. They get sucked into family drama.
My mom was married to a man who had six figures in gambling debt when she died. Thus she left most of her money to me, her daughter, and some to her granddaughter. This upset her husband and he has gone around bad mouthing me to anyone who would listen, including throwing a tantrum in front of everyone during her actual funeral, and the employees at the Sunset Funeral Home got sucked into this. Even though my sister, the other daughter of the deceased, paid for the funeral and cremation (I reimbursed her for half privately), Sunset Funeral Home insisted on giving him all of the ashes and all 5 of the death certificates that we paid for. Part of the arrangements for the ashes was that my niece, the daughter of the sister who used her credit card to pay for the funeral, was supposed to receive a Hummingbird necklace with some of her grandmother's ashes in it. Since they gave my mother's husband all of the ashes, he took the necklace, and told my brother-in-law he was going to keep it and not give it back. Again, he didn't pay for anything. He was just being spiteful because he was financially cut off and Sunset Funeral Home 100% enabled this. The only ashes the family got was a small box the husband was not able to carry out because he requires a walker. He couldn't use the walker, carry the larger urn and the smaller box of ashes at the same time so he left it and my brother-in-law got it. But my nieces necklace he was able to get into his pocket, so he kept it. To this day, the family who paid for the funeral haven't seen it.
Even more inappropriately, despite the heartbreak this man has caused our family, Sunset Funeral Home called my sister to express their concern for him and ask if he's okay. This is after he stole the necklace she paid for for her daughter from her. If they are so concerned for him, I don't know why they don't reach out to him directly instead of harassing us.
Also, because of the actions of Sunset Funeral Home, my mother's final wishes were not able to be carried out. Her final wishes were to be cremated and have her ashes taken somewhere specific. But because they gave the ashes to the husband, he buried them at the Ft. Bliss Cemetery as he is retired from the military. My mother was 70 years old when she died. She had only known him for five years in total and they were not even married for the total of those five years. These were not my mother's final wishes. Not to mention, my mother was wife number eight for this man. None of his other wives are being buried with him. There is not enough space in that cemetery. He did this just to spite our family.
Do not use Sunset Funeral Home unless you want to be billed in the thousands, left with nothing to show for it and disrespected. read more