Why Preplan?
Thinking about your own funeral leaves most people feeling a little uneasy, but more adults are finding that preplanning a funeral offers great emotional and even financial security for them and their families. With preplanning, families find comfort in knowing that the funeral reflects what their loved one wanted. It also gives them peace of mind to not have to make important decisions at a stressful time.
Advantages & Security of Pre-Arranging
- Allows you to express your wishes for a personalized service.
- Allows you time to make plans and have a clearer perspective, rather than a time of making choices under a difficult and stressful time.
- If you wish, a Pre-Arrangment allows your family to have input.
- Your plan should have flexibility because circumstances in your life may change.
- Pre-Arranging helps insure a financial responsibility is not placed on your family
- Allows you to purchase a guaranteed price contract.
The personalization of Pre-Arranging
By pre-arranging you can select from a number of options which match your personality. Such as:
- Pastor, Priest, or other Persons who are to speak at your funeral
- Music
- Casket
- Place of the Service (chapel, church, or grave side)
- Type of vault or outer burial container
- Place of Interment
Questions to Ask About Pre-Arranging
- Is your contract flexible?
- Is it inflation proof or guaranteed price?
- Is it revocable or irrevocable and which is best for me?
- Can I receive my funds back if my situation changes and I wish to use another funeral home?
Our Commitment to You
Riverwood Family Funeral Service is committed to the families we serve to do the utmost to help plan a meaningful and affordable service that reflects the life of that individual. We will offer a flexible, guaranteed price, personalized Pre-Arrangement that are your wishes. We will not pressure you in any way to purchase anything you don't need or want in your service. Our goal is to always put you and your family as our priority in serving you. If you would like more information, please contact us at (601)833-6680, or click HERE to send us an email.
Riverwood Family Funeral Services also offers cremation as an alternative to the traditional burial. Choosing cremation however, does not limit your options to have a visitation and funeral/memorial service. A casket can be purchased or rented for this service, and Riverwood Family Funeral Services also has a selection of urns that can be purchased.
Burial spaces are also available in Riverwood's Memorial Park, or your loved one's cremains can be part of our memorial scatter garden. Please contact a member of our staff for further options available.
Clay and Stephanie McMorris
Clay has been in the funeral business since 1982. He is a graduate of McComb High School and Hinds Community College.
He is retired from Brookhaven/Lincoln County, where he has served as Lincoln County Coroner since 2002.
He is a licensed insurance agent, pre-arrangement agent, and funeral director.
He and his wife, Stephanie, love the ministry opportunity that God has blessed them with.
Clay and Stephanie are active members of Clear Branch Baptist Church. They have four children and 15 grandchildren.
Rev. Larry Fletcher
Bro. Larry is an ordained minister of sixty-two years with the Apostolic Pentecostal Faith and serves
as a Funeral Director at Riverwood Family Funeral Services. He and his wife,
Beverly Joyce (Kelley) Fletcher, have celebrated 59 years of marriage. They have with daughters, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Bro. Larry and Mrs. Beverly attend Heritage Family Church of Brookhaven.
He has been working in the funeral business since 1994 and has been serving families with Riverwood since April 2011.
Don Godbold
Don began his career in funeral service in December of 1965 and has served families in this area since 1978.
He began his association with Riverwood in 2003. He is a graduate of McComb High School
and received his degree in Mortuary Science in 1968 from Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science.
He also holds an Insurance License and has served six terms on Mississippi Funeral
Directors Board of Directors. Don resides in the Friendship community and
attends Friendship Baptist Church.
Don is married to Sue Allred Godbold and they have celebrated 56 years of marriage.
They have one son, Brad Godbold (Jennifer) and two grandchildren.
He serves at Riverwood as a Funeral Director and Embalmer.
Bennie Haley
Bennie, a lifelong resident of Lincoln county, has been in the funeral business for more than 15 years.
He is a retired florist in Brookhaven where he worked 33 years and serves as a Funeral Director
at Riverwood Family Funeral Services. He is a member of Easthaven Baptist Church. He is married to Janice Smith Haley,
has one daughter, Ronda, and two grandchildren, Ben and wife, Michelle, and Nikki.
Sharon Day
Sharon has been serving families as secretary for Riverwood since 2008. She is a graduate of St. Martin High School in Biloxi, Mississippi.
She resided in Lake Charles, Louisiana for 17 years before moving to Brookhaven
She is a member of Clear Branch Baptist Church.
William McGehee
William is a graduate of Brookhaven High School. He and his wife Alisha are active members of Clear Branch Baptist Church.
They have one son Zachary. William serves as the Grounds Manager for Riverwood Family Funeral Services.
Donna Welch
Donna is married to Willie Welch. They are members of Clear Branch Baptist Church.
They have two children, Kristi Sherwin and husband Jonathan, Aaron and wife Hayley,
and five "baby grands." She moved to Brookhaven in 1995 from Pineville, LA.
Donna works as office assistant at Riverwood Family Funeral Services.
"The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease." Lam 3:22
George McCullough
George is from Brookhaven, and graduated from BHS.
and is the father of Jackson and Georgia.
He attends First Baptist Church and serves on the grounds and set up crew at Riverwood Family Funeral Services.