Spring Grove Blog

How Can a Certified Celebrant Help Your Family?

Designing a memorial service with a certified celebrant is a special way to honor a loved one. A celebrant can help you craft a personalized final tribute.

Why Our “Locate a Loved One” Feature Is Important

Our new Locate a Loved One feature makes it easier to find a grave at Spring Grove Cemetery or Oak Hill Cemetery.

How Spring Grove Understands Religious Cultures and Customs

Our diverse staff members help local families craft funeral services that honor their religious customs. We will help you at every stage of the planning process.

Finding Healing Support: Spring Grove Grief Resources

Losing a loved one can stir up complex feelings of grief. No matter the type of loss, we offer grief support resources from in-person meetings to written materials.

Funeral Timing–It’s All Relative

Discover how funeral timing, like Einstein's theories, is a matter of perspective. Explore the factors influencing when to hold a service, from cultural traditions to the benefits of taking your time. Spring Grove guides you to create a meaningful tribute, regardless of the timeline.

What Is Elder Law and Why Is It Important?

With baby boomers holding most of the country’s wealth, understanding elder law is important. Our staff encourages older adults to learn more about elder law.

What Does it Mean to Be Patriotic?

What does it mean to be patriotic? We discuss this in our latest blog while saying thank you to the brave men and women who have defended our freedom.

How to Make a Cremation Service Meaningful

Cremation is a dignified choice in evolving funeral traditions. Discover meaningful ways to honor your loved ones with our expert tips.

How Preplanning Eases the Burden of "What-Ifs"

Preplanning your funeral answers certain “what-ifs” many people have about making funeral arrangements. Craft a personalized funeral service that fits your budget.

Cemetery Symbolism

Since the early days of our country, certain motifs have been incorporated into graves and cemetery monuments. Each motif symbolized something meaningful.

A Letter to Grieving Mothers 

Experiencing the death of a child is something no parent should have to go through.

Spring Grove in the Spring: What to Expect

Visiting Spring Grove in the spring lets you see tulips and a variety of trees and shrubs. The cemetery is a beautiful place to lay a loved one to rest.

3 Reasons to Choose Your Own Final Resting Place

Why it is important to choose your own final resting place? Our latest blog outlines three reasons.

The Emotional Health Benefits of Preplanning Your Funeral

Planning a funeral for a loved one can be difficult, but preplanning your own service provides emotional health benefits for both you and your family.

Obituaries: Why They Matter

Writing an obituary may be the last thing you want to do when you’re in mourning, but it’s a chance to immortalize the one you lost.

Funeral Traditions Through the Years

Funeral traditions have evolved, but many common death practices remain the same. Our staff members work with each family to honor their funeral preferences.

How Grief Rituals Help on Valentine’s Day

This year reframe Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to commemorate and remember your loved one.

Guiding Little Hearts: Talking to Children About Death

Children of all ages can be curious about death, especially if a loved one has recently died. Be ready to answer their questions with sensitivity and honesty.

3 Preplanning Mistakes to Avoid  

Ornaments & Creative Holiday Keepsakes to Honor Your Loved One

How Our Annual Remembrance Ceremony Helps Families

How to Honor a Loved One During the Holiday Season

Why More Cincinnati Families Are Preplanning Their End-of-Life Decisions

4 Important Figures Laid to Rest at Spring Grove

How to Offer Support From a Distance

The Legacy of Our Heritage Foundation

The Spring Grove Heritage Foundation encourages annual visitors via tours, workshops, and seminars. Learn more about the Foundation in our latest blog.

Personal Touches that Make Your Funeral Memorable

Personalizing a funeral ensures a meaningful memorial for your loved one. Our latest blog highlights three of the most memorable personal touches to bring to any service.

Top Three Myths About Preplanning

A Beloved Tradition: Spring Grove’s Annual Lantern Lighting

The annual Lantern Lighting Ceremony at Spring Grove is a beautiful way to pay tribute to the loved ones we’ve lost. Join us for this family-friendly event.

A Cremation Provider You Can Trust

As cremation grows in popularity in Ohio and across the country, our experienced staff members at Spring Grove continue to meet the cremation needs of families throughout Cincinnati.

When You Don’t Know What to Say at a Visitation

Here at Spring Grove, our professional staff helps families in Cincinnati, who are in a state of shock and grief, plan meaningful funerals and cremations. Our many decades of service has taught us how to stand alongside those who have experienced a loss.

The Legacy of Spring Grove

At Spring Grove, we are proud to be one of the largest nonprofit cemeteries in the country.

4 Ways to Practice Self-Care While Grieving

After the loss of a loved one, grief can come about in ways you didn’t expect. Our care team at Spring Grove recognizes that each grief journey is different, and it is important not to compare your experience with others’ journeys. However, one common aspect of grief is the necessity to practice self-care.

How to Talk to Your Family About Preplanning

Here at Spring Grove, we’ve noticed a recent trend of more and more Cincinnati families planning their end-of-life arrangements in advance.

A Guide to Repast Services

When a loved one dies, gathering with family and friends after their funeral, cremation, or burial is an essential part of the healing process.

Spring Grove Arboretum: A Cincinnati Treasure

We are proud to be one of a few Arboretums in the U.S. with Level III accreditation. Only five cemeteries have earned this distinction.

Understanding the Cremation and Burial Process

Until a loved one dies, many families don’t know the extent of end-of-life options, including the details of cremation, traditional burial, and the selection of a final resting place.

What to Consider when Choosing a Cemetery

We believe one of the most personal decisions you can make is selecting a final resting place for yourself or a loved one.

A Beautiful Event Space for Families to Gather, Remember, and Celebrate Life

We recently opened our 10,000-square-foot Event Center to provide families with yet another option to celebrate life at Spring Grove.