Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel

Veteran services at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel

For veterans in Virginia Beach, VA, Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel coordinates military honors and burial benefits. In their own words: "Brown Funeral Home honors veterans and their families by providing funeral, cremation, and burial services, with experienced funeral directors dedicated to ensuring each veteran is honored appropriately." On-site amenities include chapel, reception hall, and reception room, suited to flag presentation and honors ceremonies. Published pricing lists $3,550 for basic burial and $3,565 for direct cremation. Veterans may qualify for county or federal allowances toward these costs.

Veteran-related services offered include burial planning, casket burial, cemetery memorialization, cemetery property, cremation, and cremation followed by memorialization. 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 burial gardens, chapel, and scattering gardens. 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.

Published pricing at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel: direct cremation from $4,815. That places direct cremation roughly 98% above the Virginia median ($2,435). Veterans who served on active duty for at least 24 months may qualify for VA burial allowance to offset funeral costs — this home accepts assignment of those benefits where eligible.

The nearest VA national cemetery is Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery in VA, approximately 33 miles from Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel. Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel can coordinate transport, scheduling with the cemetery's interment office, and the timing of military honors with the receiving committal shelter.

Virginia has approximately 579 licensed funeral homes serving its population, of which a subset specifically lists military funeral honors and VA benefits assistance among their services. Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel is among them.

Frequently asked questions

What sets Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home - Great Neck Chapel apart

• Relocation Protection: Prepaid plans are transferable and honored by any of the 1,900+ Dignity Memorial providers in North America if a family moves more than 75 miles away.
• Lifetime Flexibility: Ability to modify existing prepaid plans with new arrangements at any point.
• Purchase Protection Plan: Financial relief for families if the purchaser of cemetery property passes away before the balance is fully paid (up to $5,000, purchaser must be under 65).
• Family First Cost Protection: Covers funeral, cremation, and cemetery interment rights for an unmarried child or grandchild under 21 at no additional cost if the family has an existing plan.
• 100% Service Guarantee: Commitment to rectify any service detail that does not meet agreed-upon expectations, up to refunding that portion of the service.
• Compassion Helpline: Unlimited complimentary phone access to professional grief counselors for 13 months for families, and three months for service attendees.

Military & veteran services offered

Burial & cremation services

On-site facilities

Affiliations & specializations

Religious traditions & languages

Religious traditions accommodated: Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Protestantism. Languages spoken at the home: English, French, Spanish.

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.