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Memorials

Bronze plaques, pictures, vases, lights, and benches: the pieces that make a grave belong to one person.

Bronze plaques

Bronze plaques are made to order, in countless sizes, shapes, colors, styles, and designs.

Sizes
From 2 × 2 inches up to several feet
A companion crypt front with a bronze nameplate, engraved names and dates, and a vase of sunflowers.
A small cast bronze nameplate with a first name and the years 1951 and 2012.
A pink granite crypt front with a bronze nameplate above an engraved name and dates.

Veterans' plaques

Bronze plaques for veterans are available at no charge. The family provides two documents:

  1. The veteran’s DD-214, showing an honorable discharge
  2. The certificate of death
Cost
No charge
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 veteran's bronze plaque on a pink granite crypt front, with a cross and a short tribute engraved above it.
A veterans memorial with three flagpoles and statues of soldiers, at dusk.

Porcelain pictures

Porcelain pictures come small, medium, and large, and in 5 × 7 and 8 × 10 color. Shapes:

  • Round, black and white
  • Oval, horizontal
  • Oval, vertical
  • Heart
  • Square
  • Rectangle
  • Large photo

We can also put a photograph on ceramic coffee mugs and dishes.

An oval porcelain wedding photograph in a bronze frame, set into pink granite.
A gray granite slant headstone with carved roses and an oval porcelain portrait, set on a concrete vault.
An oval porcelain portrait set into a slant.

Picture frames

Frames come in two types, covered and open, and two colors, bronze and chrome. There are many covered designs and one open design. Call and we’ll send pictures of the others.

Vases

Granite vases, mausoleum ring and vase sets, marble, and bronze.

Like a headstone, a vase comes down to five choices: size (small to large), shape (square or round), color, finish (polished or rock pitched), and design (initials, logos, or emblems).

Round granite
10 × 16, 8 × 16, 8 × 14, 8 × 12, 7 × 12, 6 × 12, 6 × 10, 5 × 9, 4 × 10, 4 × 8 inches
Four square granite vases in black, gray, red, and dark gray.
Square granite vases in four colors.
A gray granite vase etched with praying hands.
A gray granite vase etched with a jumping bass.
A shelf of granite vases etched with crosses, a fleur-de-lis, praying hands, and a rose.
Ten gray granite vases arranged by size, labeled from 8 by 16 inches down to 4 by 8 inches.

Remembrance and solar lights

Remembrance lights with red or blue globes, and solar lights for the grave.

Benches, statues, and prayer gardens

Granite benches etched with names, prayers, and pictures, along with statues and monuments for a memorial or prayer garden.

Black granite benches and monuments along a curved walk in a prayer garden, with a bronze statue of St. Anthony.
Etched benches, monuments, and statues in a prayer garden.
Black granite benches etched with prayers and a portrait of St. Anne.
A bronze statue of St. Anthony on a black granite base, with etched monuments and kneeling statues around it.
White statues of three children kneeling in prayer, each with a small bronze plaque.
A long concrete walkway inlaid with a white crucifix, leading to granite benches and a statue.

Garden, office, and pet memorials

Bird baths and planters for the garden, etched gifts for the office, and memorials and markers for pets. Ask to see the catalog at either yard.

Talk it through with us

Call either yard, or come walk the rows and see the granite in person.

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Marksville (318) 264-3480Alexandria (318) 955-0303