City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary

Veteran services at City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary

For veterans in Santa Monica, CA, City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary coordinates military honors and burial benefits. In their own words: "Woodlawn Cemetery features a Commemorative Wall, built in 2014, specifically recognizing Santa Monicans who served in the country's military branches and died while on active duty during wartime. [23]" On-site amenities include sunburst chapel and old chapel, suited to flag presentation and honors ceremonies. Published pricing lists $3,415 for basic burial and $1,882 for direct cremation. The non-declinable service fee is $1,939. Veterans may qualify for county or federal allowances toward these costs.

Veteran-related services offered include cemetery property, burial, cremation options, and green burial. Each service is coordinated with the family and, where applicable, with the deceased's last unit or branch honor detail.

On-site facilities of note include sunburst chapel, old chapel, bayview columbarium, and elks columbarium. These spaces accommodate full military honors details, family gatherings before and after the service, and the placement of the United States flag during the visitation period.

The nearest VA national cemetery is Los Angeles National Cemetery Annex in CA, approximately 3 miles from City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary. City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary can coordinate transport, scheduling with the cemetery's interment office, and the timing of military honors with the receiving committal shelter.

California has approximately 1,115 licensed funeral homes serving its population, of which a subset specifically lists military funeral honors and VA benefits assistance among their services. City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary is among them.

Frequently asked questions

What sets City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary apart

• Wholly owned and operated by the City of Santa Monica, one of the few municipally-owned cemeteries and mortuaries in California.
• Offers green/natural burial options in 'Eternal Meadow,' a designated Monarch butterfly habitat composed of native California grasses and wildflowers.
• Features a historic mausoleum (built 1927) with Spanish Churrigueresque architecture, imported Italian marble and granite, stained-glass windows, and tapestries by artist Hugo Ballin.
• Includes a Commemorative Wall honoring Santa Monicans who died on active military duty during wartime.
• Serves as a final resting place for notable figures including astronaut Sally Ride, actor Leo Carrillo, and artist Hugo Ballin.

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Religious traditions & languages

Languages spoken at the home: Abkhaz, Acehnese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alur, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Awadhi, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bashkir, Basque, Batak Karo, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Betawi, Bhojpuri, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuukese, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dhivehi, Dinka, Dogri, Dombe, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon, French, French (Canada), Frisian, Friulian, Fulani, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Inuktut (Latin), Inuktut (Syllabics), Irish Gaelic, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpo, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Khasi, Khmer, Kiga, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kituba, Kokborok, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Maithili, Makassar, Malagasy, Malay, Malay (Jawi), Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwadi, Mauritian Creole, Meadow Mari, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Minang, Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), N'Ko, Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Ndau, Ndebele (South), Nepal Bhasa (Newari), Nepali, Norwegian, Nuer, Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Qʼeqchiʼ, Romani, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Sami (North), Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali (Latin), Santali (Ol Chiki), Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Seychellois Creole, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Twi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, Zulu.

How honors are coordinated

Military funeral honors are guaranteed at no cost for any veteran discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. The funeral home arranges the honors detail by contacting the deceased's last unit or the nearest active-duty installation of the appropriate branch and submitting the DD-214 to verify eligibility.

For requests less than 72 hours from service time, families can call the Department of Defense's expedited honors line at 1-877-MIL-HONR (1-877-645-4667). See the full honors protocol.