Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa

Veteran services at Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa

Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa serves veteran families in Sapulpa, OK with military funeral planning. In their own words: "Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery features a Veteran’s Feature and a Veteran’s Garden of Honor. They host annual Memorial Day and Veteran's Day programs on-site. Special discounts for cemetery arrangements are offered to veterans." On-site amenities include chapel, suited to flag presentation and honors ceremonies. Published pricing lists $4,350 for basic burial and $1,850 for direct cremation. Veterans may qualify for county or federal allowances toward these costs.

Veteran-related services offered include traditional burial, traditional services with casket followed by cremation, cremation with a memorial service, direct cremation, cremated remains burial, and earth 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 chapel, memorial mausoleum, veteran’s feature, cremation garden, and columbariums. 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 Fort Gibson National Cemetery in OK, approximately 54 miles from Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa. Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa can coordinate transport, scheduling with the cemetery's interment office, and the timing of military honors with the receiving committal shelter.

Oklahoma has approximately 415 licensed funeral homes serving its population, of which a subset specifically lists military funeral honors and VA benefits assistance among their services. Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa is among them.

Frequently asked questions

What sets Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery - Sapulpa apart

• Sapulpa’s only locally owned and operated funeral home.
• First facility in Creek County to combine a full-service funeral home with an on-site cemetery.
• Offers extensive grief resources, including articles by Dr. Bill Webster, Director of Grief Education.
• Provides special discounts for veterans, firefighters, police officers, sheriff's department personnel, and ministers for cemetery arrangements.
• Staff actively participates in numerous local community organizations and events, demonstrating deep community involvement.

Military & veteran services offered

Burial & cremation services

On-site facilities

Affiliations & specializations

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.