Where do Vallejo funerals and burials actually take place?
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Several places, and they are not interchangeable. Skyview Memorial Lawn on Rollingwood Drive and Sunrise Memorial on Sacramento Street carry most local burials. Services are also held in the city's parish churches, St. Vincent Ferrer among the long-established Catholic congregations, and in St. Peter's Chapel on Mare Island, the 1901 naval chapel with Tiffany glass that families request when they want a room with history rather than a parlour. Tulocay Cemetery on Coombsville Road in Napa takes a share of Vallejo families, fourteen miles up Highway 29. Veterans' committals now happen 35 miles east at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon.
Can you deliver to a committal service at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon?
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Yes, with two adjustments. First, timing: a national cemetery runs committals at a shelter on a fixed schedule, so flowers must be there before the party arrives, which from Vallejo means ordering a day ahead rather than same-day. Second, form: glass containers are not appropriate on the grounds, and anything left at a grave is cleared on the cemetery's maintenance cycle rather than the family's, so a standing piece for the shelter serves better than something meant to sit for a fortnight. If the whole family is gathering out that way rather than in Vallejo, order against a city nearer Dixon so a closer shop is assigned.
What about the Mare Island Naval Cemetery?
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It is the oldest naval cemetery on the Pacific Coast, on the island across the causeway, with Civil War-era stones and generations of shipyard sailors and officers — but it is closed to new interments, so it is a place families visit rather than a place services happen. People do bring flowers there, particularly around Memorial Day and family anniversaries, and a delivery is possible; it needs a contact who will be on site, because leaving an arrangement unattended at a historic site is not a plan. If you want a graveside send for a recent death, the active sites are Skyview, Sunrise, Tulocay in Napa or the national cemetery in Dixon.
The family is holding a vigil over several nights. Which night should I send for?
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Any of them, and that is genuinely freeing. A vigil in Vallejo frequently stays open for several evenings while relatives travel in from out of state and overseas, so unlike a single-evening viewing there is no one hour you must hit. An arrangement arriving on the second or third night still has a room to stand in and a family there to see it. Many local families then hold nine consecutive nights of prayer, often at the house — during those nights a potted plant to the home is more useful than another spray at the chapel. Ask which nights are which, then order accordingly.
Is it appropriate to send flowers at the fortieth day?
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Yes, and it is one of the most thoughtful orders you can place in this city. Vallejo's large Filipino-American community, rooted in generations of Navy service at the Mare Island shipyard, commonly marks a remembrance at the fortieth day after a death, and by then the visits have stopped and the house is quiet. Something that arrives on that day carries more weight than the same arrangement would have during the first week when the front room was already full. A plant or a simple bouquet to the home is the usual form. Say in the gift note that you know which day it is.
How much does a sympathy arrangement cost in Vallejo, and can I get a large casket spray?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $64.99. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
I am out of state. Should I send to the chapel or to the house?
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To the house, in most Vallejo cases. Chapel flowers are seen for the length of one service and then have to be moved by somebody, usually the person with the least capacity to deal with it that week. A plant at the family's address in 94589, 94590, 94591 or 94592 is there through the vigil nights, the novena and the weeks after, and it needs no staging. The exception is when the family has specifically asked for arrangements at the service, or when it is being held in St. Peter's Chapel on Mare Island and they want that room dressed. Ask; they will tell you plainly.