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Chapel of the Chimes Hayward is truly a place like no other. As the oldest and largest full-service facility in the East Bay, it is renowned for its world-class beauty and majestic setting. We understand that losing someone you love is one of life’s most difficult experiences, and that’s why it’s so important to us that our clients feel like an extension of our own family. Our incredible team of professionals have many years of experience, and as we comfort families in times of loss, we work tirelessly to ensure they’re all treated with compassion and respect.

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The Importance of Tradition: Planning a Faith-Centered Funeral
In recent years, funerals have tended to be less traditional. Although the changes are welcome in many ways, it’s still important to incorporate religious tradition if your loved one’s faith was an important part of his or her life. So don’t be afraid to buck the trend. It may be helpful to talk to a member of the clergy to help you with: Selecting
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When Death Follows a Long Illness
The death of a loved one is always a difficult experience, whether it follows a long illness or happens suddenly. For some, death after a long illness may be harder to bear because the suffering is prolonged. It’s extremely painful to see someone you love suffer, especially if you powerless to help. Being a caregiver for someone who is terminally ill can also be very stressful. Even the most resilient people
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When Adult Children Ask: How Will We Pay for Mom’s Funeral?
Funerals can be expensive, especially when the loss is unexpected. Often, people don’t have a plan in place to pay for a funeral and it can be extremely stressful to be faced with a large bill they had no idea they’d be paying. In reality, there are many ways to defray the cost of a funeral. Your first
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Memorializing Your Loved One: Choosing a Grave Marker
When you’re planning a funeral, there are many factors to consider. The visitation, funeral service, casket and many other factors must be carefully considered. The grave marker is one of the more important. There are so many memorialization options — from flat markers to statuary — that it may seem overwhelming at first. It might help to understand some of the terminology as
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Looking through a Crystal Ball: Funerals in the Future
Funerals continue to evolve as our society changes. It’s impossible to know exactly what will happen next, but by evaluating trends we can get a fairly good idea. Here are some predictions from experts about the future of funerals: New traditions will be established. Increasingly, the focus will be on personalization, and people will move from the traditional funeral
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Preplanning: Your Funeral, Your Way
When you’re thinking about preplanning your funeral, consider all the possibilities, no matter how unusual. Take some time to really think about how you’d like the service to unfold and how your personality could be represented. Write down your ideas and talk to a funeral director about which ones are feasible. To get you started, here are some interesting ideas
Read More >>
Love and Loss: Living Through the Anniversaries
The loss of a loved one is painful, but there are certain days that are worse than others. For most people, birthdays and holidays are hard. For those who are grieving, anniversaries of the loss can be especially painful.   If you’re struggling to cope with grief, try to have a plan for how you’ll deal with feelings that arise on these special
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Funerals Evolve as the Over-50s Embrace Technology
Technology was largely the domain of the young in the past. Many older people didn’t want to take it on because it seemed too complicated, and it was the younger generation who understood technology and lived by the trends. Today, however, everything is changing.   Older people are much more comfortable with technology than ever before. They
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Personalizing a Funeral on a Budget
When a loved one dies, you want the funeral to be special. It’s important for the service to be a reflection of the life that was lived. A life-honoring tribute helps those who loved the person to find closure and begin to heal. But what if you don’t have a large amount of money to
Read More >>

Here Before the City: Chapel of the Chimes and Its Connection to Hayward
Established in 1872 in Hayward, California, Chapel of the Chimes has been serving families for more than 145 years, making it older than the city itself. Even before the town was incorporated in 1876, there was a lot of activity in the area. The Ohlone Indians were the first inhabitants. Then in 1843, soldier and surveyor Guillermo Castro was granted almost 27,00 acres of land by the Mexican
Read More >>

The Importance of Tradition: Planning a Faith-Centered Funeral
In recent years, funerals have tended to be less traditional. Although the changes are welcome in many ways, it’s still important to incorporate religious tradition if your loved one’s faith was an important part of his or her life. So don’t be afraid to buck the trend. It may be helpful to talk to a member of the clergy to help you with: Selecting Read More >>
When Death Follows a Long Illness
The death of a loved one is always a difficult experience, whether it follows a long illness or happens suddenly. For some, death after a long illness may be harder to bear because the suffering is prolonged. It’s extremely painful to see someone you love suffer, especially if you powerless to help. Being a caregiver for someone who is terminally ill can also be very stressful. Even the most resilient people Read More >>
When Adult Children Ask: How Will We Pay for Mom’s Funeral?
Funerals can be expensive, especially when the loss is unexpected. Often, people don’t have a plan in place to pay for a funeral and it can be extremely stressful to be faced with a large bill they had no idea they’d be paying. In reality, there are many ways to defray the cost of a funeral. Your first Read More >>
Memorializing Your Loved One: Choosing a Grave Marker
When you’re planning a funeral, there are many factors to consider. The visitation, funeral service, casket and many other factors must be carefully considered. The grave marker is one of the more important. There are so many memorialization options — from flat markers to statuary — that it may seem overwhelming at first. It might help to understand some of the terminology as Read More >>
Looking through a Crystal Ball: Funerals in the Future
Funerals continue to evolve as our society changes. It’s impossible to know exactly what will happen next, but by evaluating trends we can get a fairly good idea. Here are some predictions from experts about the future of funerals: New traditions will be established. Increasingly, the focus will be on personalization, and people will move from the traditional funeral Read More >>
Preplanning: Your Funeral, Your Way
When you’re thinking about preplanning your funeral, consider all the possibilities, no matter how unusual. Take some time to really think about how you’d like the service to unfold and how your personality could be represented. Write down your ideas and talk to a funeral director about which ones are feasible. To get you started, here are some interesting ideas Read More >>
Love and Loss: Living Through the Anniversaries
The loss of a loved one is painful, but there are certain days that are worse than others. For most people, birthdays and holidays are hard. For those who are grieving, anniversaries of the loss can be especially painful. If you’re struggling to cope with grief, try to have a plan for how you’ll deal with feelings that arise on these special Read More >>
Funerals Evolve as the Over-50s Embrace Technology
Technology was largely the domain of the young in the past. Many older people didn’t want to take it on because it seemed too complicated, and it was the younger generation who understood technology and lived by the trends. Today, however, everything is changing. Older people are much more comfortable with technology than ever before. They Read More >>
Personalizing a Funeral on a Budget
When a loved one dies, you want the funeral to be special. It’s important for the service to be a reflection of the life that was lived. A life-honoring tribute helps those who loved the person to find closure and begin to heal. But what if you don’t have a large amount of money to Read More >>
Here Before the City: Chapel of the Chimes and Its Connection to Hayward
Established in 1872 in Hayward, California, Chapel of the Chimes has been serving families for more than 145 years, making it older than the city itself. Even before the town was incorporated in 1876, there was a lot of activity in the area. The Ohlone Indians were the first inhabitants. Then in 1843, soldier and surveyor Guillermo Castro was granted almost 27,00 acres of land by the Mexican Read More >>

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News

The Importance of Tradition: Planning a Faith-Centered Funeral

When Death Follows a Long Illness

When Adult Children Ask: How Will We Pay for Mom’s Funeral?

Memorializing Your Loved One: Choosing a Grave Marker

Looking through a Crystal Ball: Funerals in the Future

Preplanning: Your Funeral, Your Way

Love and Loss: Living Through the Anniversaries

Funerals Evolve as the Over-50s Embrace Technology

Personalizing a Funeral on a Budget

Here Before the City: Chapel of the Chimes and Its Connection to Hayward