Fernwood Funeral Home & Cemetery
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Fernwood funeral services
If you have recently lost a loved one, please send a message to our staff or call (415) 383-7100 to reach a family service counselor who will assist with next steps.
We meet families with gentle and dutiful care throughout our funeral arrangement process. When a death occurs, we understand how difficult and destabilizing it can leave for those making the arrangements. Whether you’ve experienced a recent loss or are pre-planning to make it easier for those closest to you, you’ll find dedicated staff you can trust with the details and depth of your final wishes.
Below is an outline of the care your family will receive at the time of loss.
Bringing your loved one into our care
At any time of day, a hospice or a family member can call Fernwood to let us know someone has passed. Our transport care team will bring your loved one into our care within 2 – 3 hours locally. Because our facilities are all in one location, your loved one will stay in the care of our trusted, dedicated team.
Shortly after transportation, your funeral director will begin collecting information for death certificates and other essential documents to ensure a smooth process.
Planning a funeral or memorial
At Fernwood, each service is designed to uniquely reflect the person being honored, from their background and cultural traditions to their personality and passions. Our experienced staff holds reverence and familiarity with a diverse range of funeral rites, and will support your family with traditions old and new.
The funerals and memorials held at Fernwood are deeply personal, with families often bringing their own creative touch to create a one-of-a-kind tribute to their loved one in our beautiful Remembrance Room.
Selecting a final resting place
Our stunning cemetery is centrally located, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and is abundant with native flora and fauna. During the arrangement process, your funeral director will guide you through your options according to your preference for burial or cremation. At this time, a graveside service may also be planned to honor your loved one at their final resting place.
Guiding the day of service
When the date of the service arrives, our staff will be there to assist every step of the way. From valet parking to service coordination, we’ll intuitively manage the details so you and your family can focus on gathering together and honoring your loved one. Whether it’s a funeral in our peaceful Remembrance Room or a graveside service in our scenic cemetery, you and your guests will be met with gentle support and dutiful care.
If you have questions about our range of services or are curious about pre-planning, we invite you to arrange a tour of our facilities and grounds.
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Our General Price List is available upon request. Click the button below to receive transparent pricing for our range of services, or call us anytime to connect with a family service counselor.
EST • 1895
Fernwood has served generations of Bay Area families through meaningful passage.
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Funeral & Memorial Services
At Fernwood, we hold deep reverence for our role in planning and guiding meaningful funeral and memorial services. Each gathering is unique and customized to reflect the life being honored. In our Remembrance Room, you’ll find an open, modern space that can accommodate traditions old and new. Whether you’re seeking a service that’s secular or religious, our dedicated staff will help you with the details.
Direct or Witnessed Cremation
Cremation at Fernwood takes place on-site, just steps from our funeral home. As one of the few mortuaries to perform cremation without transfer to an off-site facility, we offer the reassurance and ease of knowing all care is carried out by our experienced team.
As part of our commitment to environmentally-conscious practices, each cremation at Fernwood is paired with the planting and long-term care of native trees in the Sierra Nevada, through our partnership with veritree. This project is designed to more than offset carbon emissions over the coming decades and support the environmental restoration of the area post-wildfire. Carried out at no additional cost to families, each family receives a digital certificate with the location and number of trees planted in their loved one’s honor. See how many trees we’ve planted here.
A range of options is available within our peaceful cemetery after cremation, including:
- Meadows and hills for urn burial
- Winding paths through scattering gardens
- Stone or marble niches for above-ground placement
- Tree-planting for a living memorial
Tree Planting & Memorialization Options
Memorialization offers an enduring way to honor your loved one’s legacy. Engraved boulders and river stones mark the gravesites in our natural cemetery, while traditional headstones, monuments, and benches pay tribute to those in our traditional section. Tree-planting is also a meaningful option for a living memorial that grows over time.
During one of the most difficult times of our lives, Raymond and the team at Fernwood Funeral home provided much compassion, professionalism, and genuine care that went far beyond our expectations. He took the time to listen to our family’s wishes and guided us through every detail with patience and understanding.
– Lucy R.
Gorgeous cemetery, and the only local one that offers truly green burial options (body wrapped in a biodegradable shroud and placed directly in earth, no casket or grave liner). Beautiful views from the higher parts, and the lower parts have their own kind of natural beauty, emphasizing native plants and minimal landscaping. Perfect for outdoorsy people.
– Cat H.
Our family had an exceptional experience with Fernwood. Kind, knowledgeable, attentive staff. A beautiful space for the memorial services and the grounds are lovely. My sister and I worked with Sonia G on actualizing the stone for our parents’ site and she really pulled it off for us in record time and accuracy.
– Sam H.
All Your Needs In One Place
Fernwood Funeral Home, Cemetery, and Crematory
At Fernwood, our commitment is for our places, promises, and practices to be worthy of the lives we honor. That’s why we take pride in being a full-service funeral home, cemetery, and crematory, which allows us to be there for you and your family every step of the way. Whether selecting a final resting place or planning a ceremony for remembrance, you’ll find a gentle and dutiful approach to care, rooted in stewardship for both land and passage.
Pioneering natural burial
For over 20 years, we've offered green burial as a simple, meaningful way to return to nature.
Conservation & restoration
With each natural burial, you contribute to the restoration of native Marin oak and bay forests and wild grasslands.
Certified wildlife habitat
Spanning 32 acres of natural beauty, Fernwood is a National Wildlife Certified Habitat — home to bobcats, cranes, songbirds, wild turkeys and deer.
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Green burial
Green burial is about simplicity and a deep commitment to the conservation of the environment. This burial method allows the body to naturally decompose and be recycled into the earth.
- 100% natural
- No chemicals or toxins
- Reduced carbon footprint
This is the most beautiful cemetery in the Bay Area! …beautiful trees and rolling hills and natural as they use engraved rocks versus headstone… I returned a week later to buy the space next to my mom. It’s that beautiful and incredibly affordable.
– Philippe S.
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As a full-service funeral home, we support all faiths and traditions and offer a range of services and ceremonies, including:
- Personalized funeral and memorial services
- Direct and witnessed cremation
- Tree planting memorial
- Jewish and Buddhist ceremonies
I am very grateful for the entire Fernwood team’s practical help, compassion and professionalism during our family’s hardest hours. Fernwood is an incredibly beautiful and peaceful place and people who work there make everything as easy as possible in the saddest of circumstances.
– Ana M.
Schedule a tour of Fernwood today
Set within dozens of acres just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, our cemetery is a place for ongoing remembrance. To tour with a family service counselor, call us today.
Open Meadows
Golden Gate
Upper Meadow
Mount Fernwood
Secluded Groves
Gan Yarok Expansion
Gan Yarok Jewish Cemetery
Ancestral Forest
Request pricing & service details
Our General Price List is available upon request. Click the button below to receive transparent pricing for our range of services, or call us anytime to connect with a family service counselor.
Memory is a place we tend to
Fernwood’s staff is a dedicated group of funeral directors, family service counselors, and land caregivers who bring warmth and sincerity to every service.
Yogu Kanthiah
Co-Owner & CFO
Tyler Cassity
Co-Owner & President
Set in the coastal woodland of Marin County, Fernwood is a rare funeral home, cemetery, and crematory offering a memorial landscape for ongoing remembrance.
We’re guided by care for the land around us and being in tune with what our neighbors need, including green burial, faith-based traditions, and a final resting place worthy of their loved ones and generations to come.
Through thoughtful land stewardship and personalized support, we hope to create a place for remembrance and returning.
Sincerely,
Yogu Kanthiah & Tyler Cassity
Meet the team
Abby
Alicia
Carlos
Chuy
Heather
Jermaine
Nickol
Raymond
Sonia
