Christy Funeral Home | Pre-planning for a Funeral

Funeral Pre-Planning
You are invited to come in and discuss your needs with our pre-planning and at-need funeral and memorial experts.
Contact us today to make an appointment.

Click here for the Pre-need Form

Why Pre-Plan?
Pre-planning provides peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Just about everyone can benefit from pre-planning for their funeral, but it is especially important for people in these situations:

Retirement or about to retire
Living Alone
People concerned with providing for their parents or other relatives
Those who will be living on a fixed income, such as Social Security Medicaid Benefits or Public Aid.
Those planning on entering a nursing home or other long term care facilities.
Those who wish to remove the burden of decision making from their family
and those with strong preferences.

How to Pre-Plan
There are several choices when pre-planning for your funeral.

Basic No-Payment Plan.
You record by letter or by filling out non-binding forms with us your specific requests regarding, among other things, the type of service you want, the minister, and who you would like to nominate as your pallbearers.

Pre-Financed Trust Plan
Pre-funding your funeral ensures that there is enough money available for your funeral to both reflect your wishes, and to not be a financial burden on your surviving family members. Pre-payment of a funeral plan also helps to offset the effects of inflation and future price increases.

Christy Funeral Home uses the “New Jersey PrePaid Funeral Trust Fund™” plan called “Choices”. It's a pre-need program administered by the NJ State Funeral Directors Association, in association with Summit Bank.

The “New Jersey PrePaid Funeral Trust Fund™” meets all Federal and State consumer protection pre-need laws. Their goal is to ensure that people can pre-fund their funerals—safely, conveniently and with complete confidence. Christy Funeral Home feels that this plan is the safest method of pre-paying for a funeral, which is why this is the only pre-payment plan we currently use.

For more information, please contact us and we can further explain what you will need to do, and how the fund works.

The New Jersey Prepaid
Funeral Trust Fund™

The Christy Funeral Home meets compliance for OSHA, The American for Disabilities Act, Federal Trade Commission, and both the National and State Funeral Director's Associations. Christy Funeral Home has been a completely smoke free facility since February 1996.