Sympathy flowers in Miami Beach

The chapels and cemeteries that serve Miami Beach families sit almost entirely across the causeways, which means the delivery is a mainland run even when the loss is a 33139 one. On the Jewish side, Levitt-Weinstein Memorial Chapels and Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapels are the names Beach families use most, with interment at Mount Nebo Miami Memorial Gardens, Lakeside Memorial Park or Southern Memorial Park in North Miami Beach, and many families burying in Broward. On the Catholic and broadly Latin side, Caballero Rivero runs the chapels most Cuban and Cuban-American families in Miami-Dade know by heart, with Woodlawn Park on SW 8th Street — the Little Havana cemetery where the Cuban presidents Gerardo Machado and Carlos Prío Socarrás are buried — as its historic anchor, and the Archdiocese of Miami's Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery on NW 25th Street for a Catholic graveside. Van Orsdel Funeral Chapels, one of the oldest names in Miami, Maspons Funeral Home, Bernardo Garcia Funeral Home, Rivero Funeral Home and Stanfill Funeral Home on South Dixie Highway cover the rest of the county, with Vista Memorial Gardens in Hialeah, Flagler Memorial Park and Graceland Memorial Park among the cemeteries in regular rotation. Confirm the chapel name and the room or salon number before you order; large funeral homes run several services at once and an unlabelled arrangement ends up at the wrong one.

On the island itself, the religious addresses are the ones that matter. Temple Emanu-El at 1701 Washington Avenue and Temple Beth Sholom on Chase Avenue are the Beach's two best-known congregations; the Cuban Hebrew Congregation — Temple Beth Shmuel on Michigan Avenue was founded by Cuban Jewish families who arrived after 1959 and is the reason a Miami Beach shiva can be conducted in Spanish; the former Beth Jacob synagogue at 301 Washington Avenue, now the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, is the oldest synagogue building on the island; and The Shul of Bal Harbour anchors the Orthodox community just north on Collins. On the Catholic side, St. Patrick on Garden Avenue in Mid-Beach, St. Francis de Sales on Lenox Avenue in South Beach and St. Joseph on Byron Avenue in North Beach carry the parish funerals, with the 1921 Miami Beach Community Church on Drexel at Lincoln Road and the island's Methodist congregation handling Protestant services. Memorial gatherings also happen in condo party rooms and at restaurants far more often here than in most cities, simply because so many families live in towers without a house to receive people in. Those rooms take a delivery through the same front desk as everything else on this island, so the building name, the unit or the room, and the family surname all need to be on the order.