How a funeral service is arranged in Retamar
When you notify us, we collect the deceased at home, at the care home or at the hospital, at any hour. The wake is usually held at the Sol de Portocarrero Crematorium and Funeral Home, next to the San José cemetery, in the city, where the wake rooms and the crematorium share the same site.
If the family wishes a religious ceremony, we coordinate it with the Parish of Nuestra Señora de Retamar, the district's parish. For the burial we arrange the niche or grave at the San José Municipal Cemetery, the city one, and we take care of registering the death at the Almería Civil Registry, in the Ciudad de la Justicia.
Retamar is an area with many foreign residents, so we provide service in several languages and frequently coordinate repatriations to other countries: we prepare the approved coffin, the consular documentation and the transport. And, being a coastal area, if the family opts for cremation and wishes to scatter the ashes at sea, we explain the requirements and arrange a simple farewell along the shore.