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Ocean View Memorial Gardens is located at 715
Latimore Lake Road,Saint John, N.B. We started operating
in 1955, and the cemetery is one of only two "garden style
cemeteries" located in New Brunswick.
Ocean View consists of 63 acres of which 24
acres are developed, leaving 39 acres for future development.
The cemetery is divided into several gardens, each
consist of 1 to 6 acres of lawn enclosed with shrubs,
hedges, flower beds and architectural features. Each
garden features a life size statue made from white
Italian Carrara Marble depicting events in the life
of our lord.
All but one of the gardens use flat bronze memorials
that are flush with the lawn giving a park like appearance.
There is also "Remembrance Garden" for upright monuments
to accommodate families that wish to have the traditional
appearance.
The majority of families that have their arrangements
at Ocean View looked after them well in advance.
When Ocean View first opened in 1955 it was not the
norm for families to pre-arrange their cemetery program,
or for that matter nor did they pre-fund their funerals.
However over the last 20 years and due to the public
becoming more informed on the advantages of pre-arrangements,
many more families are looking after their arrangements
well in advance of there need.
Through surveys that have been taken, we find that
70% of people poled made it clear that they would
like to pre-arrange their own cemetery and funeral
and 75% of those families wanted to do everything
at one time, in one place, with one firm.
Ocean View is one of the very few firms in New Brunswick
that can completely fill any families requirements
for both the cemetery and funeral pre-arrangements.
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