What Types of Monuments and Memorials Does Patten Monument Company Offer?

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Patten Monument Company offers a full suite of memorial styles: custom mausoleums, cremation headstones, custom cemetery memorials, bench memorials, personalized flat grave markers, upright memorials, and virtual memorials. It also produces veteran memorials, statues and sculptures, and business or civic signage. If you are choosing a memorial, the site's "5 steps to selecting a monument," brochure and design pages, and pricing and cost section are the most direct places to start.

The core memorial styles

The company groups its offerings under "Monuments We Offer." These are the main categories and what each is typically used for:

Memorial type Typical use
Custom mausoleums Above-ground structures for entombment, built to order
Cremation headstones Markers designed for families who choose cremation
Custom cemetery memorials Cemetery monuments designed around a family's specifications
Bench memorials Memorial benches, often placed in cemeteries or memorial settings
Personalized flat grave markers Flat markers set flush with the ground, personalized with names, dates, and design elements
Upright memorials Traditional upright headstones
Virtual memorials Online memorial pages that accompany a physical memorial or stand alone

Each category is presented as customizable rather than fixed. The site's "Build A Custom Design" and "Request Designs" options indicate that families can start from a style and adapt it, rather than picking only from stock items.

Special categories beyond family headstones

Patten also lists memorial work outside the standard family monument:

  • Veteran memorials — the company states it is "proud to memorialize those who have given us our freedom," with a dedicated veteran memorials page.
  • Statues and sculptures — described as highly customized.
  • Business and civic signage — community and civic signs, framed on the site as a way to "proudly display your business."

These are worth knowing about if you are arranging a memorial for a veteran, a public organization, or a community group rather than a single family plot.

Resources for choosing a memorial

The site's Information Center is where the decision support lives. The most useful pages for a first-time buyer are:

  • 5 steps to selecting a monument — a structured walkthrough of the selection process.
  • Pricing & Cost — the company's own pricing information page, useful before you request a quote.
  • Cemetery Regulations — cemetery rules can restrict marker type, size, and material, so check this before finalizing a design.
  • Brochures and Designs — design references to review before a consultation.
  • FAQ and Videos — background material if you prefer to learn before speaking with staff.
  • Portfolio — completed work to see what the styles look like in practice.

A practical order is: check cemetery regulations first, review the five-step guide and brochures, look at pricing information, then request a quote or schedule an appointment. Doing the cemetery check early avoids designing a marker the cemetery will not allow.

How to move from browsing to a decision

The site supports several next actions: build a custom design, request designs, request a quote, schedule an appointment, or call directly. There is also a contact form and a service areas page, which matters because monument placement depends on whether the company serves your cemetery's location.

One customer review on the site describes a case where another vendor had damaged a parent's headstone and Patten resurfaced and re-created it. That is a useful signal if you are dealing with a correction or restoration rather than a first purchase, though it is a single account rather than a guarantee of that service.

If you are early in the process, start with the memorial style that matches your burial or cremation choice, confirm the cemetery's rules, and then use the design and quote tools to get a specific plan and price.