Making choices for your final arrangements is a natural part of the living process. We make plans all the time - for our future, our hopes and desires, our personal joy and professional success. Prearranging your funeral, inevitable as it will be, is no less important than planning for everyday life.

Prearranging your funeral is one of the most selfless acts - truly a gift of love - that you can offer your loved ones. When you plan ahead, you can make decisions in a calm atmosphere, backed by logical research and unencumbered by emergency.

When you map your final arrangements, your family will know exactly what you wish. You can choose your memorialization and arrange for necessary items such as caskets and vaults.

You may also pay for your funeral in advance, relieving your loved ones of the financial burden of a funeral. Choosing Kessel Funeral Home to arrange your services makes sense.

Planning and funding prearrangements is an important part of our job. For nearly 70 years the Kessel Funeral Home has been providing services to the families of St Elmo and can offer the best prearrangement choices available.

Choose the path of love – prearrange your final wishes so that your loved ones can say farewell the way you want, and then concentrate on sharing memories.

Pre-planning your funeral can be very informal, and as simple as sharing your wishes with a family member. More formal arrangements in the form of a preneed contract can be set up with a funeral director and pre-funded through life insurance, bank trust agreement, or another method.

Pre-planning, when done properly, can give you peace of mind becaused you know that your arrangements are ready and pre-funded. By pre-planning your funeral, you can: