Everytime I come here it is always so clean and the grass is nicely manicured!! This is my peaceful…read moreplace to just talk to my grandma and just listen the planes go by or hear the geese.

I would like to take a moment to tell you about the manager Bob at Hillside Cemetry My mom bought…read moreplots when my dad passed in 1982. At 66 I'm deciding along with my siblings where our final resting place will be. I never met a man who went out of his way to discuss all our options in an EXTREME, Courteous, Friendly,and Knowledgeable manor. The grounds are extremely well kept and the staff in the office could not have been nicer. The Value of the plots purchased in 1982 were certainly the best investment my mother had made it such a difficult time. Thank You Hillside Cemetery for employing a commendable Manager!!

Fairview Cemetery & Arboretum is one of the most historic and picturesque places in Westfield…read more Established in 1868, it was created when the town's older church burial grounds were becoming crowded. It is both a cemetery and an accredited arboretum, with more than 100 identified tree species and self-guided tree tours. The grounds are known for their natural beauty, including wooded areas, a pond, and extensive landscaping. Fairview also serves as a historical record of modern Westfield. While many colonial-era residents are buried in Westfield's older Presbyterian Cemetery, many of the families who helped build the suburban town of Westfield are buried here. The pond, nicknamed "Ghost Pond," was still surrounded by woods when I was a kid in the 1960s. Back then, it was open to the public for ice skating. The scene in It's a Wonderful Life where George Bailey saves his brother Harry always reminds me of those childhood days skating on Ghost Pond. On my mother's side, my family lineage goes back to some of Westfield's earliest settlers. My parents and both sets of grandparents are buried here. In 2023, I worked with the cemetery office to arrange for my parents' burials in their family plot and to have a headstone made and installed. The staff was professional, compassionate, and easy to work with throughout the process. I grew up near Fairview and have been visiting since I was about ten years old. The grounds are beautiful, peaceful, and exceptionally well maintained. Fairview contains the graves of many of the families who shaped Westfield during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The cemetery includes a notable Civil War section, several historic monuments, and "Old One Horn," a Revolutionary War-era cannon displayed on the grounds. It is also the final resting place of several notable individuals, including Whitney Houston and Dr. Virginia Apgar, whose Apgar Score is still used worldwide to assess newborns. Whenever I return to the Westfield area, I make a point of stopping by to visit family members, friends, and the parents of friends who are buried here. It remains a beautiful and tranquil place that provides comfort while honoring the memories of loved ones.

In my opinion, Fairview Cemetery is one of the most beautiful burial grounds in NJ. The…read moremaintenance at this location is superb, making it a beautiful and peaceful final resting place. The grounds are meticulously maintained, and staff members are always available to address any concerns.

I cannot recommend Ruby Memorial strongly enough. Our family worked with Maryann Malek and her…read moreassistant, Patty. They made the most impossible time in our lives infinitely easier with exactly the right combination of skill, clear communication, compassion, and care. They were professional while also being completely human in our time of need. They catered to the needs of my sister's children with deep patience, grace, and love. I felt a wave of calm and comfort in their hands. They even helped us set up the room for her funeral and brought it to life with their own special touches and wealth of experience. Maryann held me every step of the way trying to coordinate things while I was in terrible pain. She is every good thing and your family will find itself in the most capable hands with Ruby Memorial. Every single person we interacted with there was truly exceptional. I will always think of them as a bright spot in an otherwise incredibly dark moment.

My father passed away in NJ. I was out of the state and found Ruby Memorial on Yelp. We made a call…read moreand spoke to Maryann. She was very pleasant to work with and very knowledgeable about the process. We flied in to NJ on a Sunday and our father was picked up and ready to go on Monday for us. After the viewing, we talked a little more and learned what to do next. Price was fair and up front. Cash and checks preferred, but they can take credit cards. They also helped us with obtaining certified copies of father's death certificate. Thank you Ruby Memorial for making life easy, especially so close to Thanksgiving during the pandemic. It is highly recommended for your local service.

After 16 years of bringing flowers to my Father, and after a history here since 1930, to abruptly…read moredecide mourners cannot bring fresh flowers is unempethetic, rude, disrespectful... How timely to institute an artificial flowers only rule, while offering a gift shop to accommodate this. Seasonal floral arrangements available soon.... They'll be recycled I assume. It's all about $$$ Gnats? Give me a break. Have your staff deal with drying flowers or institute a 24-48 hr window-bring flowers, they will be disposed of in that time frame If I could have broken the glass, I'd have taken my father out of there today.

After my late father's surprise passing away, we were surprised by this part of the process, his…read morefinal burial place. We had the loose idea he wanted to keep it simple for his surviving family members and to be near the kids, me, so we naturally chose SHMP whose local reputation across decades is well known for reliable, respectful, and professional administration. I can after buying 2 niches (these are burial spots in a columbarium which is for urns whereas a mausoleum is for caskets), say the staff here are so totally gentle, gracious, fair, and understanding. The immense many emotions which surround the such are complex, but our initial outreach with coordinator Ennio is beyond reproach with his deep personal empathy and big heart for all patrons' human stories. Gina W. the administrator is totally on par with all the many paperwork and regulatory bits which could be a drag but she makes it all aplomb with a kind heart. The property and all its details are so thoughtfully decorated. All maintenance and facilities are so highly done as to instill high confidence. We chose the "Clearview" niches which have a clear view of the ground soutside, as the name implies. The famously beautiful views from the hills of Ridge across the Watchung Mountains towards the south and west are childhood faves for me and lifelong faves for my father so we are so totally comforted that he shall forever look out to the beloved area. It means a lot to us that the staff exhibit the care to make the view happen with perfect beauty daily. Thank you to all the staff for so much compassion and care for our father's resting place. We visit regularly to accompany him and also to enjoy his new surroundings together.

Horrible horrible service! I used their services recently a few weeks ago and they were rude,…read moreinattentive, dismissive, gave false promises, and misguided us. They promised us a tv screen in the overflow room during our wake service for my dad. The overflow room was completely packed with absolutely no tv so they just sat there and heard nothing. During the funeral procession drive, half the cars got disconnected. When a family member called them for guidance, Maryann responded very rudely telling us that we're supposed to be at a different cemetery (which was INACCURATE!). She was trying to direct us with the wrong funeral information. Whenever I called to get logistical information squared away bc my siblings and I were getting conflicting information from her, she was EXTREMELY condescending trying to tell me that I was the confused one. She also told me she sent things to my brother via email which was plain FALSE! Omg, this lady is in the wrong line of business. No one should speak to a grieving family like that. And you need to get your facts straight with the deaths. If you're too overwhelmed then you need to book what you can handle. Sounds like Maryann is the confused one...on top of being down right rude, condescending, and negligent. My condolences to all grieving families....it's hard enough to lose a loved one but do yourself a favor and find yourself another funeral home.

Unfortunately I had To use the services of Gosselin funeral…read morehome recently. Despite the most difficult of times, Fallon who I met with was kind, compassionate and informed. She got me through the process quickly and with much consideration for my state of mind. Gosselin was organized and efficient and Fallon is a great representative of Gosselin.

This cemetery was my 1st exposure to the practice of some cemeteries, usually Catholic ones…read more(although that's changed a lot since I 1st came here), of putting an enameled portrait of the deceased on the gravestone, and it has fascinated me ever since. When we moved to Bernardsville, I was a young teen, and I rode down here on my bicycle to check it out. In those days, it was much smaller and was surrounded by woods (the corporate complex...at 1 time AT&T, then I believe an insurance company, and now it might be something else... adjoining it currently was still just a gleam in a developer's eye back then). It was a quietly rural burial ground then, but I was mesmerized by the pictures on the stones of people long dead-- young men in tuxedos, beautiful young ladies, older people, and... most poignantly...small children. I remember being fascinated by 1 particular black-and-white photo of a boy who had died in 1925...just a year or 2 younger when he passed away, whether through accident or illness I would never know, than I was then as I stood there in the cold wintry afternoon air. At that time, I knew no one, and I didn't visit this cemetery often, as it was just another example, to me, of my "alien" status, of being "outside the circle," perpetual stranger. More so than I had ever felt in Wayne. I wasn't Catholic, was friendless (with the exception of a few I had left behind in Wayne), and spent my 1st few years in the area as a kind of teen ghost (didn't help that I was exceedingly awkward and anti-social). Slowly, I began to make friends, became acclimated to my new environment, at least partially emerged from my self-created cocoon. Inevitably, I became familiar with people who would occupy a permanent position in these hallowed grounds. A classmate committed suicide and was buried here. Two identical twins I developed a friendly acquaintanceship with are buried here (they both died of cancer within a few months of each other). A friend's mother, dead of cancer. A neighbor. My science teacher (I remember liking him, but he could be stern; once, when I got a D on a paper, I said, channeling Cheech & Chong, "Hey, man, how come I got a D? I was expecting a C minus at least!" He replied, in a booming voice, "DON'T EVER CALL ME MAN!" and proceeded to deliver a blistering lecture on classroom etiquette that had me wishing I could melt away into my chair and disappear). One of my 1st friends in Bernardsville, who was actually starting to get on top of his problems and addictions before a fatal heart attack felled him in his early 30s. A classmate who shot up with a dirty needle and died of AIDS. The father of a friend who was a sweetheart of a guy. A beautiful neighbor my age who didn't know I existed while I lived in the neighborhood. I met her a few years later at a wedding, and she was, surprisingly, very friendly and welcoming to me. I thought, "I guess I've finally arrived; the geeky teen is gone for good." Unfortunately, I knew she had a problem with alcohol and she died way too young. (When I told a friend of how unexpectedly friendly she had been to me at the wedding, he drolly...and unkindly... replied, "She must have been REALLY drunk that night!"). My friend Joe, whose funeral I wrote about some months ago. The small rural cemetery I initially encountered decades ago has been transformed. There's the former AT&T complex on 1 side of it, a large community mausoleum on the other. It doesn't make me uncomfortable now, I don't feel so "strange" or "alien." Friends, teachers, classmates, neighbors-- people I've known, and loved, are buried here. Despite the changes the years have wrought, it's still a quiet, holy and restorative place, a place for mourning, remembering and quiet reflection on the mysteries of life and death. I have 1 caveat to offer. Recently, I've driven by a few times, and there's a huge poster facing Mt. Airy Rd. extolling the late Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point organization. I'm not 100% certain it's actually on cemetery property, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Kirk's death was a tragedy, and anyone who suggests differently is missing some essential portion of their humanity. But he was, at the very least, an overt racist. If this poster was actually put up by the Catholic Church, do they really suggest that Kirk was someone to extol and emulate? All I can say is-- if I happened to be a black Catholic looking for a burial spot, and I arrived at Holy Cross and saw that placard/poster, I'd most assuredly turn my car around and drive away, looking for a more amenable and welcoming place to spend eternity. If they're not responsible for that placard-- my sincerest apologies. If they are--- well, they really, REALLY should consider taking it down. I'm familiar enough with Catholicism to know that large segments of it can be as conservative and rigid and doctrinaire as evangelical Protestantism, if not even more so, but...just my 2 cents...it's not a good look.

My mother recently passed away and I had contacted Mr. Bill Mundy to arrange the funeral service…read more He and his associate Mr. Thomas Kenny treated me with the utmost respect during this very difficult time. They were very understanding and answered all my questions. Every detail was attended to with such high integrity and care. The funeral home is an old Victorian home consisting of 3 rooms. Only 1 funeral is handled at a time. The atmosphere was a very warm setting vs. a commercial environment. I would highly recommend Mundy Funeral Home.

I've known the Mundy family for almost 40 years and I can tell you that they run a caring family…read morebusiness with the highest integrity. Earlier this year, they handled the services for my father. They covered every detail and made this difficult time for my family as smooth and simple as possible. I wholeheartedly recommend the Mundy funeral home for the arrangements for your loved one.

I just want to share that during a very difficult time,…read moreJonathan Krowicki and his staff were caring and kind, and went out of their way to accommodate our needs over the course of many weeks. Jonathan was communicative, helpful and compassionate.

We recently used Krowicki Gorny for a funeral. We highly recommend them. Everyone was very kind…read moreand compassionate. They helped us through a difficult time, by taking care of all the arrangements with courtesy and expertise.