The Federal Trade Commission regulates funeral homes and has established a series of rules called The Funeral Rule.

The Funeral Rule protects a consumer’s right to purchase funeral goods and services separately.  The Funeral Rule requires every funeral home to have a General Price List.  It is a written, itemized price list of all the items and services the funeral home offers.  The General Price List will be your guide to comparing funeral costs in your area.

Boxwell Brothers strives to be transparent and simple in pricing.  By law, we legally provide each family with a copy of our general price list upon each in-person inquiry, email request, or arrangement conference.

Burial Information

When people call, Boxwell Brothers typically tells a family inquiring about burial that there are six expenses when it comes to a funeral:

• The funeral home services
• The casket
• The outer burial container that most cemeteries require (some rural communities do not)
• The cemetery plot
• The opening and closing of the grave (digging the grave and set up a tent)
• Cash outlays
• Cash outlays are other items like minister or musician honorariums, flowers, newspaper notices, police escorts, or certified death certificates issued by the state.

Traditional Boxwell Brothers Services include:

• Basic Services of Funeral Director and Staff
• Transfer of the deceased to the funeral home
• Preparation by embalming (for longer-term preservation and possibly viewing *not required by law)
• Cosmetics, Dressing and Casketing
• Use of the facilities for viewing and/or visitation
• Our chapel or transfer to and the organization of a funeral at a church & the hearse for transportation
• The graveside or committal service and delivery of the flowers is priced at $4,900.00.

Boxwell Brothers also offers a very simple casket made from fiberboard for $1,295.00.  It has a doeskin covering, looks nice, and is tested to meet almost all weight standards.

We are sensitive to the costs of a funeral, and you can see that by the time a person adds all the different aspects of a funeral together, the cost can easily reach $10,000.00.

Boxwell Brothers shows more than 40 caskets and will assist in any way we can to help a family find a color or stay within a budget as needed. If a family is pleased with the casket they select, we are pleased.  We allow families to enter the casket selection room and discuss options among themselves. We do not stay in the room, and no family has ever reported feeling pressured to choose one casket over another.