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 its own description, the home mentions veterans cemetery burial. 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.

The home lists these veteran-related services: cemetery property, burial, cremation options, and green burial. Ask the director which of them they arrange directly.

Facilities on site include sunburst chapel, old chapel, bayview columbarium, and elks columbarium.

The nearest veterans cemetery that isn't listed as closed is Los Angeles National Cemetery Annex in CA, about 3 miles from City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary. For a burial in a VA national cemetery, the funeral home or the family calls the National Cemetery Scheduling Office at 800-535-1117.

We list about 1,115 funeral homes in California. Only some of them name military funeral honors or VA benefits help among their services.

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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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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 to request military funeral honors

By law (10 U.S.C. § 1491), an eligible veteran's funeral can include, on request, an honors detail of at least two service members who fold and present the U.S. flag to the family and play Taps. The funeral director usually makes the request and will need the veteran's DD214 or other discharge papers.

VA suggests asking at least 48 to 72 hours before the service. More on what honors include and how to request them.