Graceland-Fairlawn Funeral Home and Cemetery

I took my Fur Baby Thunder to Graceland-Fairlawn Funeral Home to be Cremated after he passed. An Amazing Gentleman by the name of Donnie Sutton who is over the Pet Cemetery and Cremation at Graceland-Fairlawn helped me through the process. He was very sweet, kind, caring, and compassionate. You could tell that he is truly called to do his job at helping people through the loss of their Pets. He went through all of the options with me, helped me pick out a beautiful Urn for my Thunder. When I took Thunder in Donnie took great care taking Thunder out of the back of my vehicle for me, and taking him into the building. Then Donnie took me into the office to go over all of the options available for pets. I went with the Cremation, and with the help of Donnie picked out a Beautiful wood Urn to put my Thunder in. Donnie also took a nose print, and paw print of Thunder's nose, and paw, and wrapped them up beautifully when I went to pick up Thunder's remains. I dropped Thunder off on Tue, and was able to pick up his remains the following day on Wed. Everything was packaged so very nicely, you can tell that great care and detail was taken and used to take the best care of my Thunder. The cost of everything was also very reasonable. I would defiantly Recommend Graceland-Fairlawn and Donnie to anyone who is looking to Cremate, or bury their fur baby. They are very kind, caring, and compassionate, good hearted people; who will take amazing care of you and your Fur baby. I highly recommend them and their team. I'm adding photo's of the care package that they sent home with me, and the beautiful Urn that Thunder came home in. A big Thank You to Graceland-Fairlawn Funeral Home, and to Donnie Sutton who took me through the process, and for taking such good care of my Thunder. You and your team were wonderful, and went above and beyond for me and my family and our Fur baby I can't thank you all enough.

I was very hesitant to use this funeral home because I had heard negative reviews from friends when it came to cremation of their pets. I was absolutely floored with professionalism of, particularly, Will. There was a mix up with my appointment and Will stayed late to receive my boy and did everything in his power to make sure he and I were taken care of. Donnie did an outstanding job with his paw print and nose print. When I see the clay, I can picture him with me. Outstanding job with pet cremation in my opinion. It's not a service I wish to use again for obvious reasons but, if needed, I will not hesitate to go here again.

I want to thank everyone who helped me locate my great uncles grave. My grandparents, great uncle, and uncle are tnterned at Graceland Fairlawn cemetery in Decatur, Illinois. I recently visited the cemetery after several years and couldn't remember all the plot locations. I also want to thank the grounds keepers that keep the cemetery looking so nice. Everything you all do is greatly appreciated!

They were wonderful. I took my German Shepherd to be cremated, she died unexpectedly at home. She was my faithful friend, always by my side for almost 10 years. I was a mess but Donny was so sweet and gentle, I got my girl back in a temporary urn with a clip of her hair in a nice little box, a paw print and a nose print. He even told me if I ended up getting a different urn I could bring her back in and he would do the transfer if it was too difficult for me.

Amy Marshall is a HUGE ASSET to this funeral home. She knows EXACTLY how to make a person feel better, In the deepest sorrow of times of their life. I pray that Amy gets a huge raise because she is truly worth so much to you guys! We love you Amy. 💜 God bless you always, Amy and staff. ❤️‍🩹🩷 From our family to you guys. We love you forever. Thank you so much for everything you did for my mom. You are the best of the best Amy! She is a treasure sent from up above. I love and prayers always Angie Castelli.

Several years ago my dog Zeus passed away and this funeral home handled his remains for me. It went well then so I took another animal back there again for one of my clients who had a cat I placed with her pass away. They were very wonderful with the process and Don is quite possibly one of the kindest people I have had the pleasure of dealing with. Thank you so much to the entire staff who were very gracious to me during this time.