Sympathy flowers in Virginia Beach

The chapels our ten shops deliver into most often are the region's long-established ones. Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home keeps chapels spread across the city — Bayside, Great Neck, Kempsville and Indian River — with a Tidewater chapel over the Norfolk line, which means a Hollomon-Brown service is almost always within six miles of one of our benches. Altmeyer Funeral Home & Crematory operates in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth, so an Altmeyer address can sit on either side of a tunnel and the assignment matters. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments works from Colonial Avenue in Norfolk with a Virginia Beach chapel on Laskin Road, a few minutes from the Hilltop side. Metropolitan Funeral Service serves much of the region's Black community from chapels in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Chesapeake, where a Saturday homegoing service with a full choir and a long processional is the norm rather than the exception. For graveside work: Rosewood Memorial Park on North Witchduck Road and Princess Anne Memorial Park on North Great Neck Road are the city's two main memorial parks, and the historic churchyards at Old Donation Episcopal, whose 1736 church stands on North Witchduck Road, and Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal on Laskin Road still take family burials. Across the line, Woodlawn Memorial Gardens on East Virginia Beach Boulevard and Forest Lawn, Elmwood and West Point cemeteries in Norfolk carry much of the older regional history.