Possible Disbursements

POSSIBLE DISBURSEMENTS (OUTSIDE COSTS)

Outside costs, if requested, can be included on the funeral service contract so that everything is on one account.

Charged at cost; including taxes:

Funeral Coach Rental fee: $100
Because the Andrew L. Hodges Funeral Home does not own a funeral coach (hearse) as of July 1, 2010, the rental fee will appear as an outside cost in response to the HST added to funerals by the Ontario provincial government. Therefore the rental fee does not have additional tax placed upon it, thus saving the families we serve some money in the total cost of a funeral.

Cemetery fee dependent on cemetery (St. Marys Cemetery)
(purchase of plot and/or opening & closing fee)
Cremation fee: dependent on crematorium
(Mount Pleasant Crematorium in London: $531.10 [price includes HST])
(With cremation, a corner's cremation certificate must be obtained: $75)
Newspaper and/or radio announcements dependent on length
Clergy honorarium suggested $200
Church Caretaker dependant on church
If the funeral service and/or reception takes place at a church,
(between $85 - $100) most churches have a caretaker who
sets-up and cleans-up the church premises.
Organist (at churches) $125
Flowers dependant on selection: Local florist
Coroner's fee for cremation (required for all cremations) $75
Additional music (i.e. bag piper) $75 - $100
Post funeral reception dependant on caterer and number of people
(most caterers charge around $5 per person)
Use of reception hall dependant on location(approximate cost $100)
Inscription of monument Inscription of monument dependant on number of characters being engraved: Local monument companies

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