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Where it stops being simple is the burial. The Santa Barbara Cemetery at 901 Channel Drive sits on the bluff at the Montecito edge, directly above Butterfly Beach, with the sea on one side and a chapel by George Washington Smith holding Alfredo Ramos Martínez murals on the other. It is one of the most beautiful places in California to stand for a graveside, and it is also exposed. The onshore breeze comes up the bluff face most afternoons, and by four or five o'clock a sundowner — the dry offshore wind that spills down out of the Santa Ynez range in the evening — can be moving the other direction entirely. A tall top-heavy piece on a wire easel does not survive either one with dignity. What holds up on that lawn is low, dense and weighted: a wide sprayed base, foliage packed tight enough that nothing whips, heavier material like leucadendron and protea grown in this county, stock, chrysanthemum and lisianthus rather than anything with a long bare stem and a big head. If the burial is at Calvary Cemetery, 199 North Hope Avenue behind the upper-State shopping blocks, or Goleta Cemetery at 44 San Antonio Road, or Carpinteria Cemetery on Cravens Lane, the wind question is milder and design can be taller — but tell us which one, because the piece is not the same piece.
The other decision is address. A chapel delivery is seen by everyone at the service for an hour; a house delivery is seen by the family for a week, and the week after a funeral is the quieter and harder one. For a Montecito house, understand what you are asking a driver to find: the lanes off East Valley Road and San Ysidro Road run behind hedges, many gates answer to a call box rather than a keypad, and the number on the order is frequently on a post fifty yards from the door. Hope Ranch is private road behind its own gates off Las Positas, with its own patrol and no street parking. Riviera addresses along Alameda Padre Serra and the switchbacks above it often put the front door up a flight of stairs from a street that has no place to stop. Give us a gate code, a call-box name or a mobile number and the run works; give us only a street number and it may not. The same is true in reverse for the places where a desk signs for everything: Casa Dorinda on Hot Springs Road, Valle Verde on Calle de los Amigos, Vista del Monte on Modoc Road, The Samarkand on Treasure Drive and Maravilla on Calle Real in Goleta all receive at a front desk, which is the most reliable sympathy delivery in the county and the one families forget to suggest.
The downtown chapel one turn off State from the bench at 1341 State Street, and its Goleta location on Ward Drive near the airport. The shortest sympathy run on this grid — minutes, not miles. Ask the director for the receiving window before you pick a delivery time.
The mortuary on Chapala, one block west of State and half a mile from the bench, and the Old Mission uphill past the rose garden, where many Santa Barbara funeral Masses are said. Sanctuary flowers belong to the parish; send the piece that goes home with the family afterwards.
The Santa Barbara Cemetery above Butterfly Beach, with its George Washington Smith chapel and Ramos Martinez murals. Open to the ocean: onshore breeze by afternoon, a dry sundowner off the mountains by evening. Low, wide, weighted work only, in place before the procession arrives.
Calvary Cemetery at 199 North Hope Avenue behind the upper-State blocks, Goleta Cemetery at 44 San Antonio Road, and Carpinteria Cemetery on Cravens Lane. Sheltered ground compared with the Channel Drive bluff, so taller design holds — tell us which cemetery and the piece changes.
When the news comes from a hospital room rather than a chapel, the region's trauma and referral hospital is a mile and a half from the bench. Palliative and critical-care floors want low, scent-free, lily-free work — and often the family in the lobby is the better address than the room.
Casa Dorinda in Montecito, Valle Verde, Vista del Monte, The Samarkand on Treasure Drive and Maravilla in Goleta all receive at a staffed desk. For a widow or widower living in one of them, this is the most reliable sympathy delivery in the county and the one senders never think to ask about.
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