Sunset Hill Cemetery is one of the St. Louis area’s finest and most respected cemeteries. Many area residents, like yourself, chose Sunset because of the accessible location, the well-manicured grounds and the overall beauty and serenity it provides. The full-time staff of Sunset Hill Cemetery work very dilegently to ensure we live up to the standards of our community. To further serve your [...]
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27 Jan
Dead or alive, don’t drink and drive.
The New Year usually brings a feeling of a new beginning, a fresh start, a clean slate, and all that jazz. And typically, this is a good thing, even for the funeral business. So why does it seem that 2010 is the year for crazy funeral home staff to come out of the woodwork? Just [...]
31 Dec
Funeral Home Ad-herr-ation
Long, long ago…thirty-something years to be exact, The Herr Funeral Home Business was already making a name for themselves. No, there was no such thing as social media and the closest thing to a blog was a handwritten journal, but Herr was still wildly popular. So how did they do it without the Internet, you [...]
8 Dec
Do You Hear What I Hear?
In honor of the holiday spirit that is upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to put this hilarious (and true!) story to song…and a Christmas song at that! So just to provide a little background info before you perform a musical, Bob was overseeing a funeral at Sunset Hill one afternoon when he [...]
5 Nov
Everyday is Day of the Dead at Sunset Hill!
Celebrate good times with your deceased loved ones…come on! El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) is a holiday celebrating those who have passed away. Celebrated in Mexico, friends and family gather to remember their loved ones who are no longer with them. It occurs on November 1st (in connection with All [...]
21 Oct
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Maybe it’s extremely cliché, but Halloween might just be Sunset Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery’s favorite holiday. And not just because people adorn their lawn with inflatable ghosts and zombies and hang plastic body parts from the Bradford Pear in the front yard. I mean, yes, what funeral home and cemetery staff wouldn’t chuckle at [...]
29 Sep
‘Sha-mone!
A funeral should be a celebration of someone’s life, not an exploitation. A funeral at Sunset Hill Funeral Home? A celebration. The public memorial and funeral of Michael Jackson? Arguably exploitation. Between the remaining Jackson brothers’ recent efforts to star in a reality show to the swarms of reporters and film crews crowded outside of [...]
28 Aug
The legend of the catsup capital’s finest.
Let’s be honest. Sunset Hill and Herr Funeral Homes should be considered legendary. Why, you ask? Well, not only has the trifecta been maturing for the last century and a half, but legendary people have been put to rest by the trio too. From the home of the largest catsup bottle in the world – [...]
30 Jul
Ya gotta earn that urn.
I don’t know about you, but the practice of cremation has always been somewhat chilling to me, probably due to the fact that my only experience with it, until Sunset Hill Crematory, was my visit to Mauthausen, a Nazi Concentration Camp in Austria. It is difficult for me to put into words how I felt [...]
