Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes
Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes is one of the funeral homes we are glad to recommend to families in Ravenna and the towns around it. We are Reserve Memorials, a separate local business in Hudson, and this page is our honest guide to what we have verified about them and how a memorial fits in when your family is ready for one.
About Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes
Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes serves families in Ravenna, Ohio. The verified essentials are below. We publish only what we have confirmed about each home, and we would rather give you those plainly than fill a page with words.
- Town: Ravenna, Ohio
- Address: 141 North Meridian Street, Ravenna
- Phone: (330) 296-6858
- Website: their website
What a funeral home handles for a family
A funeral home steadies the hardest week: the service itself, burial or cremation arrangements, the paperwork, the obituary, and the hundred small decisions in between, all guided by a licensed director. If you are not sure what your family needs, that is normal. Call them and ask; helping families sort that out is the core of what a good funeral home does.
For the services Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes itself offers, see their website or call them at (330) 296-6858.
How a memorial fits alongside a service here
The service comes first, and the funeral home handles it. The memorial usually comes later, and that is the part we handle.
Most families order a headstone weeks or months after the burial. There is no deadline and no penalty for taking your time. When you are ready, Reserve designs the stone with you, confirms the rules of your cemetery in writing, handles the approval paperwork, and installs the finished memorial.
If your family chose cremation, the choices are wider than most people expect. A cremation memorial can be a traditional stone at a family plot, a place in a columbarium, or a memorial at home. For veterans, the VA provides a government headstone or marker at no cost for the stone itself, and families sometimes pair it with a private memorial. We can explain both paths plainly and confirm any cemetery fees in writing before anything is ordered.
Three questions families ask us most
When do we have to decide on a stone?
You do not have to decide during the funeral week. Most families come to us one to six months later. The stone will wait for you.
Who deals with the cemetery?
We do. Approval paperwork and rule checks are part of every memorial we build, at no separate charge.
Can the stone match one already on our family plot?
Almost always, yes. Bring us a photo or the lot details and we will match granite, shape, and lettering as closely as the cemetery allows.
Cemeteries families ask about near Ravenna
- Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna. We confirm its current monument rules with the cemetery office before any design is finalized.
- Grandview Memorial Park, Ravenna. We confirm its current monument rules with the cemetery office before any design is finalized.
- Standing Rock Cemetery, Kent. We confirm its current monument rules with the cemetery office before any design is finalized.
- St. Patrick Cemetery, Kent. We confirm its current monument rules with the cemetery office before any design is finalized.
The full list of grounds we serve in the county is on our Portage County cemeteries page. If your family plot is somewhere else nearby, we work with that cemetery office directly.
Planning ahead
Planning arrangements in advance means your family is not making hard choices in a hard week. Reserve offers preplanning for the memorial itself, so the stone says what you would have wanted it to say.
Read how memorial preplanning works, with no obligation attached.
A note about this page
Reserve Memorials wrote this page because we respect Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes and the families it serves. We are separate local businesses. Listing here is our recommendation, freely given.
For the funeral itself
Call Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes at (330) 296-6858, or visit them at 141 North Meridian Street, Ravenna.
For the memorial
When that day comes, call Reserve Memorials at (234) 269-5432, or sit with us in the showroom at 30 Ravenna Street in Hudson.