Services

We are dedicated to providing the finest service to our families who choose cremation which is why McCrery & Harra is proud to say that we are the only funeral service provider in New Castle County licensed to provide the Cremation with Confidence™ Guarantee.

Our Cremation with Confidence™ Guarantee brochure outlines our 10-step cremation process that ensures your loved one’s cremation is handled according to only the highest professional standards. In addition, you can rest assured that our crematory is located in our facility. While many funeral homes utilize third party crematories, at McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory, your loved one is always under the care of our licensed funeral directors, who are also certified crematory technicians, and personally supervise every detail of the cremation process.

Click here to learn more about Cremation with Confidence™ and our 10-step process in detail.

Several choices should be considered when a family desires cremation; these choices determine the type of service it will be:

• The gathering - where family and friends come together either at one of our locations, church or another setting.
• Time of cremation - will cremation occur before or after the service?
• Memorialization - what will the final disposition of the cremated remains be? Interment or entombment, placement in a memorial garden, scattering, permanent possession or a combination.

There are many different types of Green Burial options. Click here for a Green Ideas brochure with more information.

As part of our service package, McCrery & Harra offers three complimentary grief counseling sessions with Dr. Rosemary Castelli.

Dr. Rosie Castelli lived in Wilmington, Delaware for over 20 years before moving to New York in 1993 to pursue a career in the SUNY higher education system. There she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY. When she retired in 2008 she moved back to Delaware to enjoy her children and grandchildren. Upon retirement, Dr. Rosie retrained and became a certified grief counselor (American Institute of Health Care Professionals) and Certified funeral celebrant (Insight Institute). She also became certified as a Funeral Services Associate and Pastoral Thanatologist (dealing with death issues). She also began teaching online courses for the American Academy of Grief Counseling, a branch of the American Institute of Health Care Professionals. In 2015 she became a sister in the Anglican Dominican Order, a faith community in the Episcopal Church of the United States. As Sister Rosie (as she is now often called) she serves as prior of Albertus House, the northeast priory of the Order. Sr. Rosie’s biggest joy, however, is being with her son Chris and his family, especially her three grandchildren, and with her very spoiled senior Dachshund, Gabriella Marie. Families who have been served by McCrery and Harra may know Sr. Rosie as the author of “Fifty Two Weeks of Grief Support,” an online program for grieving families offered by the funeral home. She also wrote, “Now That The Funeral Is Over,” a grief workbook available on Amazon and at McCrery and Harra. Although retired, Sr. Rosie is always available to her friends at McCrery and Harra to offer grief support for those suffering the pain of grief.

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Though we do not provide pet cremations, we realize your pet is an important member of your family. We would be most happy to provide you with our Pet Loss Brochure to help you through this difficult time in your life. Or, if you need a recommendation for a reputable pet crematory in the area, please contact us.