Our Services

TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND

At W. J. Jones & Son Funeral Home, we feel it is your right and our desire that you have as complete an understanding as possible regarding the cost of our services. The major cost factor, whether you choose cremation or burial, are the Basic Arrangements. Basic Arrangements are the costs of our being in business and are shared equally by all the families we serve, whether the choice be cremation or burial. We hope the following description will help you understand.

Following a death, there are many arrangements that are supervised by a Licensed Funeral Director. The coordination of these arrangements is unending; that is, the cost incurred enables us to maintain our staff and facilities 24 hours every day of the year. Therefore, ours is a 168 hour week and not the 40 hour week which is the accepted standard. Many phases of our work are apparent; others are not. The following analysis of some of these details will help you understand what is actually involved. Traditions, customs, social standing, personal feeling, financial ability and a multitude of other influences affect each funeral. Our services must conform to each individual family's wishes and their personal and religious needs.

The following items are included in the charges related to services we provide:

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS, SUPERVISION AND DIRECTION OF SERVICES

Transfer the deceased to the Funeral Home within an 80 Kilometer radius of our facility.

Meet with the family to:

Complete itemized cost agreement - Obtain obituary information

Oversee all aspects of services - Assist in planning family floral tributes.

Coordinate timing of the following services as needed:

Clergy - Fraternal organizations

Necessary automotive equipment - Cemetery or Crematory

Civic or other organizations - Veterans Associations

Complete Death Certificate with vital statistics information.

Obtain the signature and medical information from the attending physician or coroner.

File completed and signed Death Certificate with Registrar of Vital Statistics, obtain a Disposition Permit.

Prepare, edit, then call or forward obituary information to all newspapers requested by the family.

Provide forms, documents and applications such as:

Veteran's/Last Post Burial Allowance - Cemetery or Crematory applications

Monument orders - Social Services Assistance

Monument inscription orders - Transportation documents where applicable

Canada Pension Survivors Benefit - Certified Provincial Death Certificates

Canada Pension Death Benefit - Funeral Director's Proof of Death Certificates

Provide a basic memorial register with acknowledgement stationary.

Answer all telephone calls - provide funeral information to family, friends, lodge members, business associates, and florists with regard to funeral services.

Provide custodial care of the deceased with dignity and respect while the coordination of plans is completed.

Maintain universal precautions and hygienically prepare the deceased through the process of embalming or refrigeration if embalming is declined to insure protection to personnel and the public.

Provide professional personnel to assist in all the above items.

In addition to all of the above, there is a Licensed Funeral Director available and a competent understanding person to answer the telephone and respond to a family's needs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

FACILITIES & FUNERAL EQUIPMENT

Our Funeral Home provides a complete facility conveniently located with off street parking. It includes all the necessary equipment to take care of the many service options requested by the families we serve.

The use of our specialized funeral related equipment for services at the funeral home or at your place of worship.
Use of the embalming and preparation area or, as an alternative use of the refrigeration equipment.
Visitation rooms, offices and related office equipment.
The casket, casket receptacle and urn selection room.
We make available the Family Centre with Resource Library and Reception Area if services are held in the Moose Jaw area.

The following are also items that are included in our fixed overhead which constitutes the facility fees:

Property/Business Taxes - Grounds maintenance.
Surgical instruments/supplies - Utilities
Inventory of caskets, vaults and urns - Telephone
Stationary and office equipment - Air conditioning
Advertising and information - Insurance - fire and theft
House cleaning supplies - Professional liability
Building maintenance - Worker's Compensation and health.

MOTOR EQUIPMENT

The funeral home provides specialized vehicles for the care of the deceased, transportation of the family, pallbearers and honorary pallbearers as required and a service vehicle for obtaining documents and for the delivery of memorials, flowers, and funeral equipment. Fees reflect costs of making these vehicles available on a 24 hour basis as well as fuel, maintenance, licensing, insurance and depreciation.

It should be noted that because of the nature of funeral service, many hours of training and continuous, specialized education are required to insure that a competent and understanding person is there for the public. This is the commitment W.J. Jones & Son Funeral Home has made to its profession, and to you. It appears in many ways and continues to be one of the most important reasons people choose our services over others. Four generations of the Jones family have now committed their lives to serving in Funeral Service. We are very proud to be the only locally owned, Canadian and Independent Funeral Home remaining in our community.