ABOUT THE FOREST HILLS CEMETERY
FOREST HILLS CEMETERY is one of the finest examples of the garden cemetery in the United States. It was founded in 1848 to provide a magnificent park-like setting to bury and remember family and friends. Forest Hills is still an active burial ground, and is also a historic site, an open-air museum, and a 275-acre greenspace and arboretum. The distinctive Victorian landscape design features meandering paths, scenic vistas, and lovely lake Hibiscus. Many prominent historic, cultural and civic figures are buried here, including the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Lucy Stone, poets Anne Sexton and e.e. cummings, playwright Eugene O’Neill, and sculptor Martin Milmore.
The Cemetery is open for visiting every day from dawn to dusk. You can request the Forest Hills Cemetery Tour Guide made by Susan Wilson by mail to the Office or choose to visit accompanied by a guide. Forest Hills Cemetery also held the Worshipping Ancestors activities.annually in Lantern Festiva. There were more than 3,000 people took part the Activities in 2000, in the evening at Lake Hibiscus, people lit candle lights, put them into the water, swaying lights floating away, send the griefs to the loved ones who passed away.
Burial Services:
Burial » n Forest Hills Cemetery, you can choose a single or family graveyard, can choose the new broaden field, and can choose the location which have the long history.
Range » Sculpture / Personalized Monument / Memorial Tree and Others.
Monument » WE ARE FORTUNATE to have three beautiful chapels for memorial ceremony, The Forsyth Chapel is located at the main Cemetery entrance and is truly a tribute to nineteenth century architecture; The Lucy Stone Chapel and the Pitman Chapel are located at the Forest Hills Columbarium and Crematory. These elegant chapel’s airy neoclassical style has an eternal elegance, with seats 125 and 75.
Liturgy » Forest Hills Greenhouse plants the fresh flowers to provide for the personal, group celebrations.
Flower Planting » Forest Hills Cemetery Endowment Funds maintain the daily cleanliness, the personal gravestones need the family take the maintenance, the monuments arranged by Forest Hills Cemetery are cleaned by their staff regularly.
Eternal Care » Double Burial (Same Hole): are $ 3,850 / $ 4,950 / $ 6,950 according to different needs
Double Burial (Different Holes): determined by different demands with the Minimum of $ 7,700.
Cemetery Memorial Website: prices determined by demand
Twin Peak Niches: $ 3,250 - $ 4,250
Cremation Services:
Burial Plan » Need a notarized document shows the true wishes of willing to cremation by the deceased, the prepartions are handed by the direct of the funeral who is selected by the relatives；
Monument » Bronze Shrine / Memorial Tree / Stained-Glass Windows
Urns » The Indian red granite Kebei placed in the Outdoor Garden, Ashes placed in the Indoor Niche church
Liturgy » WE ARE FORTUNATE to have three beautiful chapels for memorial ceremony, The Forsyth Chapel is located at the main Cemetery entrance and is truly a tribute to nineteenth century architecture; The Lucy Stone Chapel and the Pitman Chapel are located at the Forest Hills Columbarium and Crematory. These elegant chapel’s airy neoclassical style has an eternal elegance, with seats 125 and 75.
Prices » Children (10 years old)： $265
» Indoor Niches: $1,850 - $4,700
» Twin Peak Outdoor Niches： $3,250 - $4,250
» Cremation Cemetery： $1,600 - $6.950
