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Dauzat Vaults

Burial vaults · Headstones · Cemetery services

Marksville

Dauzat Vaults, LLC

751 Hwy 453
Marksville, LA 71351

(318) 264-3480Directions

24-hour line

(318) 253-8845

Call any hour, day or night.

Alexandria

Dauzat Headstone Co., LLC

5731 Masonic Dr.
Alexandria, LA 71301

(318) 955-0303Directions

“…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom.” 2 Cor. 3:17

The vault, the headstone, the graveside, and the care that follows, all from one family business.

  • Someone has died

    Call the 24-hour line. We open and close the grave or crypt, set up the graveside with tent, grass, chairs, and lowering device, and engrave the date on the stone.

    Call (318) 253-8845Cemetery services

  • Planning ahead

    Choose the vault, the headstone, its granite color, and its words at your own pace. Many families engrave everything ahead of time except the final date.

    HeadstonesVaults & tombs

  • Caring for a grave

    Slabs and aprons that stop sinking and leaning, cleaning and abrasive blasting, texture coating, and full restoration of old tombs.

    Grave care

See a name in bronze or granite

Type a name and years to see how a flat marker could read, in cast bronze or in one of the granites from our yard.

Cast bronze, leather background. A preview only. Before anything is cast or engraved, you approve a written proof.

A veteran's bronze plaque mounted on a gray granite upright, listing service in Vietnam, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Medal.
A finished veteran’s plaque, cast in bronze and set in granite.
Years
Material
Emblem

When it reads right, call either yard to start a proof.

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What we make and do

A thicker vault wall

Our concrete vault walls taper from 2½ inches thick to 3. The National Concrete Burial Vault Association standard is 1½ inches throughout.

Every wall carries four kinds of reinforcement: high-strength six-bag concrete, synthetic fiber, steel rebar, and a non-porous bonding compound that closes the concrete’s pores against water. No separate liner is needed.

Concrete vaults

Vault wall thickness, drawn to scaleA Dauzat vault wall tapers from 2½ inches thick at the top to 3 inches at the bottom. The National Concrete Burial Vault Association standard wall is 1½ inches thick throughout.2½ in.3 in.1½ in.1½ in.Dauzat vault wallAssociation standard

Dauzat concrete vault

Wall
2½ to 3 in., tapered
Mix
High-strength six-bag
Reinforced
Synthetic fiber, steel rebar, bonding compound
Lids
Flat-top or beveled
Sizes
Oversized adult, standard adult, youth, infant, cremation
White concrete vaults lined up on the grass.
Concrete vaults in a row.

Stones as personal as the people they remember

A faith, a favorite pastime, a landscape from home. Bring a photo or an idea to either yard.

A heart-shaped gray granite headstone etched with a camera, a guitar, and an open Bible.
A black granite upright etched with a country landscape beneath the name and dates.
A gray granite stone etched with a hand of playing cards and a slot machine.
A gray granite stone etched with the outline of a soda bottle.

Etched uprights and markers: a heart-shaped stone with a camera, a guitar, and a Bible; a country scene in black granite; a hand of cards; a favorite soda.

Mausoleums, memorials, and a prayer garden

A prayer garden of black granite benches, statues, and monuments beside a church building.
A red granite private mausoleum with columns and bronze doors, at the edge of a wooded cemetery.
A black granite monument etched with St. Michael the Archangel above the prayer to St. Michael.
A veterans memorial with three flagpoles and statues of soldiers, at dusk.

Etched granite benches and monuments for a prayer garden, a private family mausoleum, and a veterans memorial.

Nine granite colors

Photos never quite do granite justice. Come see the samples in person, in daylight.

  • Grey
  • Dark Grey
  • Coral Grey
  • Kershaw
  • Salisbury
  • Morning Rose
  • Mahogany
  • India Red
  • Jet Black

Colors and finishes

Old graves, made right again

Abrasive blasting and cleaning, texture coating, new slabs and aprons, and full demolition and rebuilding when a tomb has cracked, sunk, or begun to lean.

Grave care and restoration

Before: Four family graves before cleaning, their concrete slabs dark with mildew and weathering.
After: The same four graves after cleaning, the slabs and headstones bright again.
Four family graves, before and after abrasive blasting.

Veterans’ bronze plaques at no charge

Family members provide two documents: the veteran’s DD-214 showing an honorable discharge, and the certificate of death.

Veterans’ plaques

A veteran's bronze plaque on a pink granite crypt front, with a cross and a short tribute engraved above it.

Free grief education

Scotty P. Dauzat leads free, faith-based classes on grief and death education, in person and online.

“I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”

2 Samuel 12:23

Grief education

Financing available

For a burial happening now, for planning ahead, or for work after the burial. Ask either yard about current options.

Financing

Walk the yard before you choose

Both yards keep rows of headstones in many shapes and colors. Call ahead and come see them.