GATES FUNERAL HOME

352.459.7446

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​​Welcome to Gates Funeral Home, proudly serving the Minneola, Clermont, Groveland, Orlando, Apopka and Central Florida areas. Our experienced and compassionate staff of funeral directors, counselors and planners bring people together to celebrate life when it ends while providing tools to move forward with living.

 

Our mission is to serve every family with dignity, compassion, and care—regardless of their financial circumstances.

 

Founded and led by longtime funeral director and pastor Everett Gates, Gates Funeral Home brings a fresh, community-focused approach to memorial care. The funeral home offers traditional funerals, affordable cremation packages, livestreaming services, grief support, and personalized keepsakes designed to honor every life with respect and meaning.

 

As both a funeral director and a pastor, I’ve seen firsthand the emotional and financial strain families face during loss. Gates Funeral Home was created to be a place where compassion meets affordability

We provide a variety of service offerings designed to meet your family’s customs and traditions, including:

• Traditional funerals
• Memorial services
• Graveside ceremonies
• Basic and full service cremation options

• Witness Cremation
• Collaboration with other funeral homes 

• Certified Cremation Arranger

• Notary Public

• Grief support

• Se habla espanol

• And more…

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Traditional Funeral Service followed by Cremation

Many families find meaning and beauty in a traditional funeral service. With a traditional service combined with cremation, you can still choose to have a final viewing, visitation or wake as well as a funeral service. However instead of in-ground burial, the funeral will be followed by cremation. Depending on your wishes, the cremated remains may be either returned to a family member for storage in an urn, scattered, or interred in a columbarium.

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Memorial Service

The memorial service can be held in a chapel, church, or any other venue the family chooses. We work with our families to design a service that honors their loved one with stories, videos and music. We also offer clergy when a Pastor may not be chosen. Our Clergy and Pastoral staff are trained in creating experiences that help start the healing process.

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Graveside Service

Graveside services may be limited to only family members or may be open to all. If you are having a graveside service after a traditional funeral, you can invite everyone who attended the funeral service to attend the graveside service, or you can let people know that you'd like to keep the service private.  Holding only a graveside service can be less expensive than holding a funeral or memorial service.

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A graveside service can be thought of as a pared-down funeral. Many of the features of a traditional funeral are present, but minimized. For example:

• Viewings and visitations are either very brief or not held at all.

• The funeral conductor/officiant can be a member of the clergy, a funeral director, or a friend or family member. However, the service in general is much shorter, requiring less of the officiant's time.

• Pallbearers are generally not used at a graveside service, as the casket is usually in place by the time service attendees arrive.

• Usually only one eulogy is delivered rather than multiple remarks.  There are fewer readings and/or prayers.

 

A graveside service is held at the place of interment in a cemetery: at a grave, mausoleum crypt, or columbarium niche (in the case of cremation).

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Direct Cremation

If your family has chosen direct cremation, we do offer immediate viewing of your loved one before the cremation process begin. Direct Cremation means that the next of kin and family members do not want any type of service, visitation or wake prior to cremation.

We understand the passing of a loved one is a difficult time. If you have any questions while viewing this site, or are in immediate need of our services, please contact us day or night at 352.459.7446