The Italian Cemetery

The staff at the Italian Cemetery were very helpful in helping to locate the burials of relatives! Their website provided an easy contact method, and my inquiry was responded to quickly and kindly with detailed plot information and a map of the cemetery!

I cannot say enough about how wonderful everyone, Steve, Troy & Joanna are at the Italian Cemetery. They have become like family. They helped me through a very difficult time and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. The experience was so positive I enjoy going to see my parents and stopping in and visiting with them! In fact, I planned our (my husband and me) internment there when the time comes! Beautiful surroundings and great people.

My family recently had a graveside service at The Italian Cemetery.
The main service was in the El Camino chapel with final blessings across the street at the columbarium.
This was my first time planing a funeral and I needed a lot of help. I live in another county so and had to make decision by phone and email.
I worked with Joanna in the early stages to find a site that would be close to an older family plot. She took photos and emailed them to me so I could see the locations, and helped me to select a niche.
She was very patient and kindly answered my many questions via email, sent photos of the niche and chapel so we could see the locations, and sent maps of the cemetery layout.

She coached me days before the service so I‘d know what to expect.
This event was 3.5 months in planning, from purchase of the cremation niche site, to the day of the event.
Throughout this time the office staff were very kind, professional and went out of their way to make sure we had what we needed for our special service.
The day of the service I needed help in finding the cemetery and called the office. Steve was kind enough to stay on the phone with me until I arrived.
Troy helped our family with the service, made sure we had chairs set up outside for the final blessings and stayed with us until the event was finished. When we were clearing out of the chapel an item was left behind.
Troy kindly emailed me to let me know they had the item at the office and would hold it for us. Everyone we interacted with at The Italian Cemetery made us feel at ease and comfortable. I gladly give them highest ratings.

Big thanks to Joanna,Troy, and Steve for making this a happy event for all of us. I trust that our loved one’s grave will receive excellent care.

I have many dearly loved family members buried in the Italian Cemetery in Colma. In researching some family history, I had some questions regarding my great grandparents tomb as well as a great aunt buried in the Italian Cemetery. Troy was very gracious in helping to answer my questions and assist in any way he could. Thank you for your personal attentiveness.

We contacted Joanna at the Italian for help in scheduling a memorial service at the family tomb and to have the marble cleaned and polished and to update the names of family members who had passed.

Not only did Joanna arrange for the work to be done on the vault, she was extremely helpful and informative throughout the process, overseeing the work and keeping us informed on the progress. The monument restorer that she worked with does beautiful work. I’ve includes pictures of the vault it’s 75 years old and now The marble and medallions look brand new.

What a pleasure it was to work with the staff at the Italian cemetery.

Bless you all, Nina Smith