Planning a funeral can be overwhelming, but you are not alone in this. We’re here to support you throughout this journey and make this process one of love, healing, and life celebration. Click on each service below to learn more.
Body Collection Services
We can arrange hospital/nursing home/hospices removals. Our Executive hearses are availablefor collections all over Kenya. For addtional information on Collections please get in contact with our Customer Care Team.
Burial Services
There are different elements you can choose from when arranging a burial, depending upon your individual needs and preferences:
- Immediate Burial means that your loved one’s physical remains will be buried or entombed without a public service or gathering.
- Visitation/Viewing allows family and friends to gather in a room with the departed loved one and gives them the opportunity to say goodbye and offer their support and sympathy to the bereaved.
- Funeral or Memorial Services can take place at a funeral home, in a church or even at your home. The service is a ceremony which serves to celebrate, honor, and remember the life of the deceased. Whether traditional or unique, both the visitation and the funeral service can be personalized to reflect the individuality of your loved one. For more information on personalization, visit our page on Celebrating Life.
Cremation Services
The biggest misconception about cremation is that there can’t be a funeral service or visitation. This is absolutely not the case – when you choose to care for the physical remains through cremation, we encourage you to consider holding a memorial service as well. There are many options open to you when it comes to honoring your loved one’s life: you can provide a chance for friends and family to say goodbye through a final viewing before the cremation, and you can also hold a formal service either before or after the cremation occurs. After the cremation itself, there are a variety of choices for your loved one’s final disposition:
- Interment means that you’ll bury or entomb your loved one’s cremated remains. This can be in the family plot, a memorial site, a cremation niche or urn garden, or in a variety of other indoor and outdoor locations. Ask our staff for a detailed list of interment possibilities.
- Graveside Services are similar to those celebrated alongside a traditional ground burial, in which loved ones are present at the burial of the cremated remains and honor the deceased through memorial prayers or other meaningful tributes.
- Scattering allows you to spread your loved one’s cremated remains in a memorial garden, a cemetery, over water, or across any other meaningful site. You can also choose to scatter some of the cremated remains and retain the rest in an urn for internment or another form of disposition.
- Placing cremated remains in multiple urns allows family members who are separated by distance to each feel the comfort of having their loved one’s final resting place in a nearby location.
Outsourced Funeral Webcasting
We can help you use technology to bring together family and friends from all over the world in honor of a loved one who has passed. Webcasting you loved one’s service gives those who are unable to travel the ability to see the service live or watch it later at their convenience. This is an especially meaningful solution for loved ones who are serving overseas and cannot attend the funeral in person.
Hearse Services
We provide professional and superlative-quality hearses and funeral transport services, enabling you to enjoy the convenience of classy, and efficient hearse and funeral transport all over Kenya.
Our hearses and funeral vehicles are immaculate, well-maintained and in mint-condition, so that your dearly departed can check out in style, and you can honour them a memorable procession and funeral service.
Moreover, our fleet is chauffered and managed by professional, and highly-trained staff, who are sensitive to your needs, whether you wish to bury the deceased within the capital city, Nairobi, or if you need funeral transport services at a specified location upcountry.
We offer you a good selection of quality vehicles from our fleet consisting of Mercedes E-Class hearse, Mercedes Sprinters hearse, 7 seater hearse vans, Landcruiser trailer to cater to your unique needs.
Personalized Wreaths
Umash Funeral Services Ltd gives family and friends an opportunity to recollect how special their loved one was with this gentle and timeless circle of fragrant blooms to celebrate sweet memories. This may include a mix of flowers such as peach roses, gerberas and carnations, pink asiatic lilies and lisianthus, purple limonium and lavender larkspur nest in greens on an easel-mounted wreath. This arrangement will be hand designed and delivered by a local florist.
Bodies in funeral homes may be stored for a short time, embalmed, restored, beautified, dressed before the funeral.
Ultimately,this depends on the family’s wishes and religious preferences, as well as the services that our funeral home is legally able or ethically willing to provide.
Umash Funeral home, Kenya takes on the sensitive work of preparing the body for burial or cremation.We are also fortunate enough to have a team of staff who are friendly, compassionate, highly skilled, and dedicated to their profession.
Morgue Services
With utmost honor and respect,our skilled staff follow a few steps in preparation of your loved one’s body.Bodies in funeral homes may be stored for a short time, embalmed, restored, beautified, dressed before the funeral.
Bear in mind that not all these services are mandatory when it comes to preparing and handling of the deceased.
Ultimately, it all comes down to the wishes of the family.
Post-mortem Examinations/Autopsy
Pathologists perform post-mortem examinations in a respectful manner and with regard for the feelings of the bereaved relatives. An autopsy (also known as a post-mortem examination or necropsy) is the examination of the body of a dead person and is performed primarily to determine the cause of death, to identify or characterize the extent of disease states that the person may have had, or to determine whether a particular medical or surgical treatment has been effective. Autopsies are performed by pathologists, medical doctors who have received specialty training in the diagnosis of diseases by the examination of body fluids and tissues.
After all studies are completed, a detailed report is prepared that describes the autopsy procedure and microscopic findings, gives a list of medical diagnoses, and a summary of the case. The report emphasizes the relationship or correlation between clinical findings (the doctor’s examination, laboratory tests, radiology findings, etc.) and pathologic findings (those made from the autopsy).
Casket Sales
Umash Funeral Services Ltd is the leader in custom wrapped caskets or personalized caskets since 1989. Everything is done in-house, making the buying process simple and seamless.
We maintain a large inventory of caskets in stock, ready to wrap, immediately. Our turnaround time for a customized casket is 72 hours, they’re then delivered anywhere, nationwide.
Our caskets are a beautiful addition for a special and truly memorable celebration of life, funeral, or memorial service. Let us create something special for your loved one according to your preference.
The sky is truly the limit when you choose our custom caskets.
Chapel Services
Our chapel provides the highest caliber of personalized care in arranging end-of-life celebration.
Our magnificent funeral chapel and exceptional gardens offer an oasis of extraordinary beauty and serenity during a time of emotional strain. Every member of our staff is dedicated to compassionate care and quality service, professionalism steeped in warmth and respect.
Families appreciate our efforts to embrace the religious and cultural diversity in Kenya and beyond. Our funeral professionals offer years of experience in planning the most detailed services, with accurate attention to the individual rites and rituals so important to the families we serve.
