An Urn Can Show Decades of a Life Well Lived

Each life is a story. We believe that every urn can and should be able to tell that story, using graphics, pictures and text. With our exclusive Keep The Memory® line of cremation urns, we make it easy for our customers to design a tale of love that they can see every time they look at the urn.

Choosing the Perfect Image

When a person passes on, it is quite common for the grieving friends and family members to bring photographs of a loved one. This is a wonderful opportunity to cry, laugh and share memories of the person throughout their life. This common part of the memorial process is what made us think of the Keep The Memory® urn series in the first place. Families want to have the perfect image of a loved one that they can look at and remember with fondness. They also want a well-crafted urn that reflects their love and undying respect for the person they lost. This urn can do both, with more personalization than people might think.

Licensed Artwork for the Ideal Representation

The process starts with a wide variety of images we offer that represent different interests, hobbies, careers and beliefs. People can select Keep The Memory® urns in many themes, including:

Telling a Loved One’s Story

Each image that we imprint on the Keep The Memory® urns tells a story. We encourage families to think about the tale they would like the urn to recount of their loved ones. With so many choices available, people can customize the urn to tell a story of hard work, love, interest, faith and more. Adding pictures of the person at the height of their life, at a favorite yearly event, or just before they passed is a great way to use imagery to feature a loved one as they would want to be remembered. We work with our customers to identify a layout that will encompass all that a person is, and was. This might involve a custom design with different photos, or perhaps many photos on the urn for an extra charge.

Personalizing the Design

Although our selection of images gives people a starting point, there is a whole world of personalization available afterward. Customers are welcome to choose one of these images, add to it, or create a completely unique design with the help of our expert graphic designers. In order to really explain how much customization people can make on these urns, we have to talk about a particular Keep The Memory® urn we made for Bucky Moore. Bucky Moore spent a long career as a rail man. A few years ago, he asked us to make him an urn that would feature the varied aspects of his career before he retired. On the front of the urn, he requested a picture of a train like the one he ran for many years. Our graphic designer put in a picture of him as the “throttle jockey,” as he put it. In the corner, we put scans of organizations that he supported throughout his career. On either side, he sent photos of himself in different positions he filled throughout his time on the railroad. On the top, he contrasted a picture of him at the height of his career with a photo of him just before he retired. The result was a delight to him and his family, because it did not just provide a single time stamp in a career that lasted four decades. Instead, it told a story of a man who was proud of what he did, from beginning to end. Our commitment to our customers means that we are willing to go the extra mile like this for anyone who asks.

Memorializing the True Individual

The extraordinary advantage of this urn series and our use of technology is that it is so current, showing the cutting edge of modern cremation urns. People want to idealize their individuality, and we can help. In a world that places so much focus on taking pictures all day long, the technology to print crisp photographs on almost any surface shifts from merely interesting to incredible. It can capture a person’s unique style without a single flaw. Artists may want to feature a print of their work, as well as their pictures. The technology and our graphic designers allow us to print it as clearly and cleanly as the original.

An Elegant Surface

This level of careful work would only make sense if the urn base on which it is placed is just as amazing. The Keep The Memory® urn series uses a popular urn style that our customers find both graceful and excellently made.

“Not only is this urn a beautiful masterpiece, the work and detail on it is awesome,” Bucky said in a review of the urn he designed for himself.

The urn itself is made by hand from solid birch, with a classic rose wood finish. It measures 11.5” wide, 7” tall and 7.5” deep. As a standard-size adult urn, it will hold up to 200 cubic inches of cremated remains. There is a removable plate on the bottom for the placement of the ashes, which can be sealed permanently if desired.

Cremation Urns to Stand the Test of Time

Now that cremation is the preferred method of handling human remains after death, interest in finding appropriate places for cremation urns is more important than ever. Many cemeteries that ran out of traditional burial space years ago have begun to construct and maintain columbaria, structures that will hold a number of urns for ashes. One complication of placement in columbaria is that the urn must be both sturdy and not too large to fit inside a cremation niche. We are happy to say that the Keep The Memory® urns should easily meet both requirements for most columbaria. With their hardy construction and relatively compact size, they offer families more options for a loved one’s final rest.

The Design and Imprinting Process

Since we know that the work customers request is of the utmost importance, we place a great emphasis on skill, technology and ensuring the right design from the start. When we talk to a client who wants to expand upon our existing creations, or construct something new, we collect the desired images and work with them to design a plate. They receive a copy of the graphic we build before we print it. If they agree that it meets their expectations exactly, we move to printing the image. For the Keep The Memory® urns, we use full-color printing on metal plates, with lines of engraving that are easy to read. The process may not take very long, and we aim to ship soon after completion.

Complements for Loved Ones

Our command of such a variety of technological tools makes it easy for us to customize complementary keepsake urns perfect for extended families and memorial services. Once we have created the image that a customer loves for the front of a Keep The Memory® urn, we can print that image on other surfaces. One popular choice is our keychain urns. On the ring is a small urn that is made of stainless steel and can be permanently sealed. It holds about one cubic inch of ashes. The keychain fob uses the same imprinting process to provide a crisp image to match the one on the urn. We offer engraving on both the urn and the key fob.