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    Mercy Funeral Home

    Mercy Funeral Home

    2.3
    (8 reviews)

    Yeah Not my style…read more I attended a funeral here recently and it was just very disorganized. Lots of seating but just a bit tacky and shabby overall. Everything just needs an update. Considering what.people pay for funerals I think they could make it much nicer and fresher. Funerals are depressing enough

    DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE!!! When I decided to write this review I kept trying to think of nice…read morethings to say and the only thing I can think of is: very very unprofessional, cheap, fake, dirty, smelly, liar, opportunist. It's bad enough that you are going through one of the most difficult things a person has to do when you have to call a funeral home to entrust a loved-ones care to but when someone answers the phone as though you are calling their house (and you are), that's when the insult begins. If you're not wise enough to see through your grief and go someplace else after that, it gets worse when you walk into the place and the dank odor greets you at the door. The funeral home is very small, decorated very cheap and cheesy, is dusty, dark and old. The snowball continues to roll downhill when you meet with the funeral director, Iman (aka David) and you feel like you're at a used car lot. There is selling and upselling and recommendations for other services (i.e. flowers and obituaries) by people "he knows" and if you don't give in to it, his true nature comes out and he then works the system to give you the bare minimum that allows him to make his profit. He knows exactly what DHS and Social Security will pay to the penny and immediately doctored the paperwork so he could get every cent of it from them. When it came to paying our portion, we were instructed by David that he would only take cash or money orders. He does not accept any form of electronic payment at all. That sent off major red flags but of course by then, they already have your next of kin and the tab is running. The next hiccups came when they told us they only have a very old limo and do not have family cars and that we could not have a viewing/family hour at the funeral home because he does not work on Sunday so he can be home with his family. Many times I tried to contact David to drop off clothes and discuss things but would often get no answer or speak with his wife who answers the business phone from home. One of his employees is a member of a large church and he uses him to solicit customers, which is how we came to hear of Mercy Funeral Home. The misery grows when David contacts the cemetery and tells them that our deceased will require a larger casket and it won't fit into the vault we purchased. Therefore, the cemetery contacted us two days before the funeral and told us that they were cancelling our burial until we paid more money for a larger vault. We phoned David to ask why he called the cemetery and did not relay this information to us first and he denied it. Yet, when we questioned him about a larger casket, he then fessed up. I believe he did that so we would buy the burial vault from him instead of the cemetery. To make matters worse, he then told us that he did not have a larger casket for our family member. By now we were livid and couldn't wait to get the funeral over and be done with this scammer. I called around to casket retailers looking for a larger one to find out they only sell to vendors, not the public. One of them even told me that they were in litigation with Mercy Funeral Home for nonpayment and would "never do business with David again." The end result was they charged us an extra $100 and found a bigger casket. The funeral went off with a few more glitches like David passing out the obituaries before the service started or the family arrived and then hoarding a large amount of them in the car supposedly to save them for the family without anyone asking him to and leaving us short of programs during the service. Our final displeasure came when he interjected his Chaldean Catholic practices into our non-denominational burial. It was meant as a kind gesture but was inappropriate. When everything was over one of his employees asked if I would recommend them to other people? I think the look on my face answered his question and he just said "I understand."

    Mt Olivet Cemetery

    Mt Olivet Cemetery

    5.0
    (5 reviews)

    We had the most fantastic loving care from Alberto and Marcus today (Saturday June 18, 2022) while…read moreplacing my dad's ashes in the niche/final resting place. They were kind loving and respectful beyond words, qualities that are so appreciated and in need at a time when families are most vulnerable. Their genuine kindness and compassion was felt by all of us and I had to take the time to make it known! God bless them!

    As hard as it may seem to believe to some people, there are some cemeteries that are sub-par…read more Worse than that, they are just downright disgusting. Luckily, for a select few of my family members that have passed, the Mt. Olivet Cemetery is NOT one of those places. Admittedly, I hadn't been back to this location in probably 8 years. I don't have many family members buried there, and those who are buried there are members I was not as close to (either because they passed when I was young or before I was born, or because we were not close family members). Either way, I never remembered much about going out to this location. Maybe it's because I'm older now, or maybe it's because my older family members are starting their (hopefully) slow decent from the prime of their lives, but this is the first time I've ever truly paid attention to how this cemetery looks. Now, I was only there for about 45 minutes, but I think it was long enough to truly take in the location. First off, the grass was green and well kept, and the crypts were not dusty or dirty. Again, you may think that goes without saying, but unfortunately that is not always the case. The pavement, at least the roads I traveled, were free from potholes and graffiti as well. Lots of people I spoke with assumed that it would be a very bad cemetery due to the location in Detroit, but I did not find this to be the case. If you don't mind the hike, depending, of course, where you live in proximity to the cemetery, I think it's about as good as you can get in the Metro-Detroit area to have your final resting place - but let's hope that, for all of you reading this, that date is far away in the future.

    Barksdale Funeral Homes - funeralservices - Updated August 2026

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