Direct cremation for $1,095 for families in Lakeland and across Polk County. One call brings your loved one into our care, and the written price comes before anything else.
Lakeland is a city in Polk County, home to about 124,990 people by the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate. The county seat is Bartow. It is about 106 miles from our Fort Myers office in a straight line, and transport comes to Lakeland wherever the death occurs.
Polk County’s citrus and phosphate industries built farmworking communities with deep Mexican and Guatemalan roots, and Haines City has a growing Puerto Rican and Haitian population. It is a large county with a lot of road in it, and families in Frostproof or Fort Meade are often surprised that a Fort Myers firm serves them at the same price as somewhere thirty minutes away.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates.
The same service fee as everywhere else we serve: transport into our care from anywhere in Lakeland, refrigeration, every permit and filing, the cremation, a temporary container with your loved one's name, and the cremated remains brought back to you in person. Death certificate copies, the container Florida law requires, and any District 10 medical examiner fee are listed separately on your written price.
Florida law does not allow a cremation until a medical examiner has authorized it. For a death in Lakeland, that is the District 10 Medical Examiner, which covers Polk County. The same district also covers Hardee and Highlands counties. We request the authorization as soon as the death certificate is filed, and that step, not the cremation itself, usually sets the timeline.
Some Florida medical examiner districts charge a fee to authorize a cremation and others do not. Lakeland is in District 10. If the district charges one, it is passed through to you at exactly the amount charged, and we confirm it on your written price before you authorize anything.
Certified copies are issued by the Florida Department of Health, through its office in Polk County. We order them for you when the death certificate is filed, at the state rate with nothing added, so nobody in the family has to visit an office.
Most cremations take place within three to seven days of the first call. Florida requires a waiting period, and the District 10 Medical Examiner must authorize the cremation, so the timing depends mostly on how quickly the death certificate is signed and authorized.
A licensed funeral director will call you back. For an immediate need, calling is faster and someone will answer.
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