Business Details
50+ Years
experience
Trusted Funeral & Cremation Services in DeLand, FL
Established in 1950 by W. Clyde and Eleanor Lankford, our funeral home has remained family-owned and operated for over seven decades. We specialize in creating personalized, meaningful tributes that honor the unique lives of your loved ones while providing compassionate support to grieving families. Our services include traditional funerals, cremation options, veterans' honors, and customized memorials designed to reflect individual legacies.With a dedicated staff trained in both ceremonial excellence and emotional care, we guide families through every step of the process while offering one year of weekly grief support resources. As the only continuously family-operated funeral home in Volusia County, we maintain a commitment to affordability without compromising dignity or quality.
Services
Traditional Services
Cremation Services
Personalization Options
Veterans Services
Monuments
Pet Funerals
Urns
Caskets
Obituaries
Grief Support
Details
- Year established: 1950
Highlights and features
- Family-owned since 1950 with deep community roots
- Specialized veterans' service coordination and benefits assistance
- Custom tribute creation with multimedia and memorial keepsakes
- Comprehensive grief support resources for one full year
- Transparent pricing for traditional and cremation services
What people say
Compassionate care
Personalized services
Professional support
Helped during grief
Honored veterans
Services
Traditional Services
We create meaningful traditional funeral experiences with visitation, memorial services, and graveside ceremonies. Families receive guidance in selecting personalized elements like tribute videos, photo displays, and music selections while our trained life celebrants lead ceremonies when clergy isn't chosen. Services can be held at our chapel or preferred locations.
Cremation Services
Our cremation services include full funeral ceremonies followed by cremation, memorial services, and permanent memorialization choices. We provide urn selection assistance, columbarium placement guidance, and scattering ceremony support while maintaining dignity throughout the process for families choosing cremation.
Veterans Services
We specialize in veterans' benefits coordination including flag presentation, rifle details, and VA burial allowance applications. Our staff assists with headstone requests, memorial item procurement, and documentation for families of deceased service members while honoring military legacies with appropriate ceremonies.
Personalization Services
We create customized memorials through photo collages, tribute videos, personalized urns, and music selections. Our directors help families incorporate artistic elements, literary readings, and live performances that reflect the deceased's personality, hobbies, and life achievements into meaningful funeral experiences.
Grief Support
We provide one year of weekly grief support messages and resource materials to help families navigate the mourning process. Our program offers practical coping strategies, emotional guidance, and community resources to support long-term healing after experiencing loss.
People
Cheryl L. Lankford
Owner/Operator
Third-generation funeral director continuing family legacy since 2000. Brings decades of hands-on experience in compassionate service planning and community support while maintaining traditional values with modern approaches to memorialization.
Questions
What funeral service options do you offer?
We provide traditional funerals with visitation and ceremonies, cremation services with memorial options, veterans' honors, and customized tributes incorporating multimedia elements and personalized keepsakes.
How do you assist military families?
We coordinate VA benefits applications, provide flag presentations, organize rifle details, and help obtain government-issued headstones while offering specialized counseling for families of deceased service members.
Can I personalize my loved one's service?
Yes, we offer tribute videos, photo displays, customized urns, music selections, and artistic elements to create unique memorials reflecting individual personalities and life achievements.
Do you provide grief support after services?
We offer one year of weekly grief support messages and resource materials to help families navigate the mourning process with practical coping strategies and emotional guidance.
What areas do you serve?
We primarily serve DeLand and the entire Volusia County area with funeral planning, cremation services, and memorialization options for local families.
Reviews (4)
Jeff Bransford
Dec 29, 2021
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When my mother died recently in a DeLand nursing home, the people at Lankford Funeral Home stepped in immediately to make go smoothly. They took care of co-ordinating with the funeral home in my mother's home town to have her remains sent there for her funeral and burial. I could not have expected anyone to be more considerate and professional.
Jon Denery
Nov 23, 2021
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Darin made our experience seem less and streamlined. Lankford Funeral was and is a pleasure to work with for the hard stuff. The staff followed up with us afterward too. Just to make sure we were doing okay. I highly recommend them for any and all things Post Mortem.
Christopher Melvin
Nov 04, 2021
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My experience of Cheryl and her team at Lankford Funeral Home is that they are caring and compassionate professionals who went above and beyond to help us through a difficult time. They made a difference in our lives and I would highly recommend them for your familys needs.
Rosemary Mclauchlin
Oct 19, 2021
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Carrie and Darin are amazingly kind and, the attention to detail is unmatched. I lost my mom August 2nd and they really went above and, beyond to make me feel at ease with the whole process. I am so, so very thankful for these people and they way they helped me every step of the way. Thank you again for your help. My mom would have been so very pleased that we chose to work with yall
