One investment that you can make today to secure your peace of mind is to plan and fund your funeral before the need arises.

It's a Reflection of Your Good Planning.

What is involved in Pre-planning?

Simply, in advance, a person makes selections and expresses his/her wishes in regard to his/her own funeral. Some advantages to this process include:

• Lets you make your wishes known, so your loved ones won't have to guess..
• Eliminates emotional overspending from grief or guilt and can bring peace of mind to your family's decision-making.
• You can pre-fund your funeral arrangements so your other assets will benefit the persons or organizations for which you intended them.
• Allows you to pre-fund your funeral at today's prices so your decisions are protected against inflation. Here's how it works - You pay Today's funeral price - We guarantee future service at no additional costs to your loved one. The plan that you select pays the future funeral price due to inflation. The longer your prearranged fund is in effect, the more interest it will accrue. If there is excess money in your funeral fund after payment, it is returned to your designated beneficiary.
• Properly executed State approved insured Pre-Planning plans are exempt as a countable asset for Medicaid benefits. In addition, the growth of the benefits is not reportable as income.

Personalized Service
Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. provides each and every family with unique funeral services. Whether you choose a traditional funeral service with visitation, ceremony and burial or cremation; memorial ceremony; or even a life celebration service; our staff is here to help coordinate a meaningful, personalized tribute for your loved one.

We were the first in the area to generate colored pictures, favorite poems or prayers on your choice of over 50 different prayer cards and folders.

Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. is the only funeral home in the area offering Memorial Tribute Videos. In addition, we provide picture boards, so families may share their favorite snapshots with family and friends

During each service, family and friends are encouraged to write their fondest memory of the deceased on our "Fond Memory Sheets", which are then collected in a Memorial Scrapbook for the family to cherish.

Families are encouraged to display their loved ones memorabilia, hobbies and interests, so as to honor the talents and creativity of their deceased loved one.

Our Directors are accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Whether a death occurs at home, in a nearby medical facility or across the country, our staff is well trained to assist you in providing the necessary funeral arrangements in a timely and dignified manner.

Our Directors are also available after the funeral to assist with the filing of Insurance Claims, Veteran Death Benefits and so forth.

Professional Service
Our commitment to providing high professional and ethical service is the cornerstone of our independently owned and family operated funeral home.

Our Licensed Funeral Directors firmly believe that through continuing education we are able to provide our community with the finest service in the funeral industry today. That is why each of our directors currently hold or are pursuing their designation of Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP). The designation is awarded by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. The purpose of the Academy is:

• to provide recognition to funeral service practitioners for the commitment to maintaining and improving themselves and their profession through life-long learning and continuing education
  
  
• to raise and improve the professional standards of funeral service education by giving special recognition to the practitioners who complete certain qualifying activities
  
  
• to identify and recognize those practitioners who have voluntarily entered a program of professional growth and development, and
  
  
• to encourage practitioners to make continuing education a life-long process in their own self-interest, the interest of the persons they serve and the community which they serve.

As part of our highly professional standards, we believe in the necessity of supporting and abiding by the Pennsylvania Funeral Director Laws, Rules and Regulations and the Federal Laws governing the Funeral Industry. In so doing, our directors are licensed through the State of Pennsylvania by the State Board of Funeral Service. So we may provide the option of Advanced Funeral Planning utilizing the Burial Insurance option, Deann K. Mountain-Felix has also completed the necessary requirements to be a Licensed Pennsylvania Life and Fixed Annuities Resident Agent.

Community Service
Every employee of Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. is involved in our community in some way or another. Whether through our memberships in our respected churches, civic organizations or extra-curricular activities, we are active participants in the Penn Hills and Plum Boro Communities.

Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. is proud to be an affiliate of the Lofty Oaks Association. For each service we conduct, we request that a tree be planted in the state of Pennsylvania in memory of the deceased. Since our partnership into the Lofty Oaks Association in 1992, over 5000 trees have been planted.

At Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. our services are not completed after the deceased is buried or cremated. We realize that our service is only the beginning of your journey through grief and we provide support groups, programs and literature to help you. Our support groups meet in the Spring and in the Fall. We also have listings of all of the support groups that are held in the area, so that your schedule can be accommodated.

Another program that we offer is the Christmas Memorial Program. We understand that the holidays can be a trying and stressful time of year for someone who has lost a loved one. Therefore, since 1995, Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd. has hosted the Memorial Program at the beginning of December. During our program, the speaker offers ideas and insights as to how to best handle the up-coming Yuletide Season. We conclude our program with a Candle Lighting Ceremony in which every person who had died in the previous year is remembered. This candle on which is the deceased name and date of death is presented to the family after the program to take home and cherish. This Light of Hope is intended to shine brightly throughout the holiday season.

As part of our continued service our Roth Chapel houses our Grief Library. There is quite a selection of books, pamphlets, videos and even audio-tapes dealing with the topic of grief, loss and bereavement. Some of the literature is for generalized grief while others focus on specific types of grief and loss, such as suicide, AIDS, loss of a child and so forth. Our library is open to the public and continues to grow.