Veteran services at Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service
Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service is a funeral home in Columbia, SC that accepts veteran families and provides military funeral honors coordination through the Department of Defense honors program.
The nearest VA national cemetery is Fort Jackson National Cemetery in SC, approximately 13 miles from Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service can coordinate transport, scheduling with the cemetery's interment office, and the timing of military honors with the receiving committal shelter.
Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service holds a 4.5-star rating from 51 Google reviews, indicating consistent service quality reported by families who have used the home for veteran and non-veteran services alike.
What families have said
Recent reviews from families who used Elmwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Reviews are sourced from Google Places and shown verbatim — we do not edit or filter for sentiment.
“St Peter's Cemetery and Elmwood Cemetery are historic and beautiful. You could spend hours exploring the acres and acres of interesting headstones. A number of veterans and those killed in WWI and WWII rest here.”
“Our family has been buried in Elmwood Cemetery since the 1800’s. They have been wonderful to work with planning our most recent funeral. It’s never easy dealing with grief but the staff at Elmwood help every step of the way.”
“This place is beautiful. All my family on my mommas side is buried here under one of the biggest Oak Trees on the grounds. They take very good care of things here. It’s always kept nice and clean.”
“Susie and Cheyenne have been tremendously helpful and truly a blessing in the process of designing markers and a bench for my mother and myself. They have ensured that everything is made correctly and as we discussed, and they have both been patient and compassionate regarding questions and clarification we've needed. These ladies and their staff are a blessing to us, the families they help, and to anyone who has the privilege of meeting them.”
“I can only say good things about my experience for making final arrangements for myself with the representative Mary Hollowell! She is so pleasant and knowledgeable about all the needs and questions I had! I have went through this process for my mother at her passing, and it definitely was not as pleasant and comforting like Mary Hollowell has made this. She is the best!”
EverSettled · After the Veteran Funeral
The veteran's spouse may qualify for VA Dependency & Indemnity Compensation.
DIC is a tax-free monthly benefit for surviving spouses, dependent children, and (in some cases) parents of veterans whose death is service-connected. EverSettled walks veteran families through DIC eligibility, survivor pension, life-insurance claims, probate, and the federal-account paperwork that follows.
Begin Veteran Estate SettlementHow 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.