Services
We offer many options for a burial in our cemetery.
Green burial offers a chemical-free way to bury your loved one in a simple manner that restores the environment.
Though we encourage green burials, we are able to do traditional burials with a pine box or casket (coffin).
We offer a simple burial for cremated remains (aka cremains). Cremains can be buried beneath in a cremains burial section of our grounds.
We allow scattering of cremains on our grounds, including in the area of the Memorial Garden.
We offer green burials for infants in a designated infant section within the burial ground.
The Memorial Garden is a peaceful natural setting in the heart of the Burial Ground.
Seekers of Spiritual Truth
About Friends Southwestern Burial Ground
FSWBG started out as farmland. Over the years we have worked to maintain the grounds as a peaceful and beautiful amenity for the local community and for families whose loved ones are here.
We are looking to the future, encouraging green burials and working toward Green Burial Council certification as a hybrid burial ground, to support the health of the natural environment upon which we all depend. We are exploring new emerging options for environmentally friendly disposition of bodies which we may offer in the future.
As Friends, we try to live according to certain values:
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To date there have been more than 4,000 burials at FSWBG representing many faiths. Quakers urge all those who bury their dead here to conform to true burial simplicity. Green burials and use of shrouds rather than coffins are encouraged. All graves are dug and refilled by hand, and only Quaker style headstones or low flat grave markers are acceptable. Take a virtual tour of our beautiful grounds.
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