Business Details
50+ Years
experience
Emergency
services
Your Trusted Funeral Service Provider in Shippensburg
Since the 1930s, Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home and Crematorium-Bricker Funeral Home and Crematorium has served Shippensburg and surrounding communities with compassionate care during life's most difficult moments. Our team of dedicated professionals combines decades of experience with personalized service to guide families through funeral planning, cremation, and memorialization. We specialize in creating meaningful tributes that honor individual lives while providing practical support for pre-arrangements and grief resources. Our commitment to excellence extends to veterans' services, where we assist families in securing military honors and benefits. With 24/7 availability, we ensure families receive immediate support whenever needed.Our facility offers flexible spaces for visitations, funeral services, and memorial ceremonies tailored to each family's preferences. We maintain strong relationships with local florists and service providers to coordinate seamless arrangements. Through one-year grief support programs and personalized planning tools, we continue supporting families beyond the initial service. Our transparent approach ensures families understand all options while maintaining affordability. This long-standing community presence reflects our dedication to compassionate service and continuous adaptation to evolving needs.
Services
Traditional Services
Cremation Services
Veterans Services
Personalization Options
Planning Ahead
Details
- Year established: 1930
Highlights and features
- Serving the community since 1930 with generational expertise
- 24/7 compassionate support during difficult times
- Specialized veterans' service coordination and benefits assistance
- Personalized memorialization options including tribute videos
- Experienced staff trained in grief support and ceremony design
What people say
Compassionate staff
Personalized services
24/7 availability
Veterans' benefits assistance
Meaningful tributes
Services
Traditional Services
We offer comprehensive traditional funeral services including visitation, chapel or off-site ceremonies, and graveside services. Our team coordinates all elements from casket selection to clergy arrangements while helping families create personalized tributes through photo displays, music selections, and customized programs. We provide transparent pricing for visitation, funeral service, and burial packages.
Cremation Services
Our cremation services include traditional funeral services followed by cremation, memorial services with urn presence, and private cremation arrangements. We offer various memorialization options including urn selection, columbarium placement, and scattering ceremony planning. Our staff explains all cremation package options with clear pricing and documentation.
Veterans Services
We specialize in veterans' funeral benefits coordination, including DD214 documentation assistance, flag presentation, and military honor guard arrangements. Our team helps families secure VA burial allowances, headstones, and national cemetery interment while providing personalized military-themed tributes and memorialization options.
Personalization
We create customized tributes through photo collages, tribute videos, personalized urns, and themed memorial services. Our directors help families incorporate music, readings, and personal mementos into ceremonies while offering live streaming for distant guests and keepsake creation for attendees.
Planning Ahead
Our preplanning services include online pre-arrangement forms, personalized planning checklists, and consultation appointments. We offer transferable funeral plans and guidance on documenting personal wishes while explaining funding options and legal requirements for advance arrangements.
People
Derek C. Herb
Supervisor
Derek C. Herb leads our team with over 15 years of funeral service experience, specializing in veterans' benefits coordination and grief support. He ensures our staff maintains the highest standards of compassionate care while overseeing daily operations and community outreach programs.
Questions
What types of funeral services do you offer?
We provide traditional funeral services, cremation options, and veterans' military honors ceremonies with personalized memorialization choices.
Do you offer preplanning services?
Yes, we offer online preplanning forms, personalized planning checklists, and transferable funeral plans with consultation appointments available.
How do you assist veteran families?
We help families secure VA benefits, coordinate military honors, and provide specialized memorialization options for veterans and their families.
Are you available after hours?
Our team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for immediate assistance with funeral arrangements.
Can you help personalize services?
We offer tribute videos, photo displays, personalized urns, and themed memorials to create unique tributes for loved ones.
Do you offer grief support?
We provide one-year weekly grief messages and resource materials to support families through the mourning process.
Reviews (4)
Ashlyn Riccione
Jan 19, 2021
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Everyone at Fogelsanger-Bricker is super kind and they care so much about serving their community members. Its great to see a small business truly support the town and provide families comfort with great service.
Gayle Hartman
May 01, 2019
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If you ever need anyone to do the services for a family member this is the place. The funeral directors and staff are such great caring people. You couldn't ask for a better place. They make everything special, just like they are a part of your family.
Tim Hutchison
Dec 25, 2018
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I have been to countless visitations, viewings, and services at Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home including my mothers. I have always been 100% pleased with the entire experience from start to finish. The entire staff is kind, compassionate, and very professional. They did a wonderful job with my mother and made a very difficult time much more manageable. Thank you so much! Highly recommended!
Marylue Durff
Nov 18, 2018
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Absolutely wonderful! The staff guides & supports you & your family through the worst days of your life. Highly recommend.
