Today, more and more people are planning their funeral in advance. Preplanning, or prearranging, as this is commonly known, is simply taking care of your service details before the need arises.

Working together with People’s professional, who has especial training and experience, you can be sure these details are taken care of.

Do you want a traditional funeral o simple memorial service? Burial or cremation? In addition, you can choose to personalize specific items such as people to notify, readings or favorite songs, flowers, clothing, and anything else that is important to you.

Why Preplan?

Make your wishes known
Your family and friends don’t have to guess what you want when you share your thoughts with them. And, by putting it in writting, you can be sure you’ll get the service you have planned for.

Preplanning can also help you determine exactly how much you should spend on all the specific events of your life that you would like honored and remembered.

Personalize Your service
Create a positive celebration! With preplanning, those close to you will know what you would like highlighted about the life you’ve lived, so they can commemorate the “real you”.

Be Satisfied, Knowing you Have Relieved an Emotional Burden for your Family
Planning a special service after losing a loved one is never easy, It’s already a highly emotional time, and when they don’t know your final wishes, brings added stress to those you love.

How do you Preplan?

It’s as easy as A-B-C!

A. Collect Personal Infromation
This includes gathering all the facts that you will want people to remember: Your biographical information, career, hobbies, family and friends. You can include any other special interests you have to help make your service even more meaningful for those who attend.

B. Making Arrangements
When ready, you can sit down at People’s with a planning professional who will explain the various options available. this information will help you determine your choice of service and make decision on any other ideas you may have for your remembrance.

A statement of your service selections will then be kept at our funeral home until needed.

C. Prefund Your Funeral
Funeral price, like other things, increase over time. By prefunding at today’s prices, you can be assured that the money will be there to cover tomorrow’s funeral costs.

Prefunding can also help relieve the financial burden on those close to you. Handling the costs of a funeral, and possibly overspending because they weren’t certain of your wishes, can be extremely stressful and even a hardship.
Once you have prefunded your services, you have taken that last step in assuring that your remembrance will be the way you want it with less stress on those left behind. This allows them to focus on remembering you and celebrating your life.

Now is the time to plan when you can think clearly while making these important decisions.

Call us at (706) 327-8310.

We have a variety of prefunding options available. Your People’s planning professional would welcome the opportunity to sit down and go throught thse with you.

Mr. Hill (Owner/CEO)

As time progresses, we at People’s have a plan of innovation, not only do we plan to continue to be an informative, resourceful and user friendly business, we want to bring the most comfort to families giving them the ability to communicate, arrange make all of their selections from the comfort of their own home.

Cedric Hill
Nearly 30 years experience as Funeral Director and Mortician.
Goal-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities.
Organized, highly motivated, and detail-directed problem solver.
Proven ability to work with staff, clients and other professionals.

Our Vision
To provide the highest quality service in the Chattahoochee Valley Area, bridging the gap between grief, recovery and the continuance of a quality life for every family served through education, coordination and personal service.

Our Mission
Is to provide the avenue by which families in our community can express their wants, needs, and desires at a period when vulnerability is at hand. We purpose to provide information necessary to bring structure to a lifestyle that has been altered and to assist with the process of grief allowing free expression of faith, trust and hope.

Our Goal
Is to provide the best when it matters most.

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Local Couple Living Dream, Making History

by: Maria Jones with wltz.com

Story Created: Feb 25, 2009 at 1:56 PM CDT

During Black History Month, the country honors many who have come and gone. Today NBC 38’s Maria Jones focuses on a local couple who are making history as they live their dreams and look ahead to the future. Cedric and Daphne Hill have been married for more than two decades and are raising their family here in Columbus. The couple is the proud owners of People’s Funeral Service on Talbotton Road & Jenie’s Bridals & Formals on Wynnton Road. After working behind the scenes at Peoples for many years, Cedric was given an opportunity to become the face of his family business. And in 2002 became the owner. Cedric told News 38, “Grew up in the business and I guess if I were to say, If I had to do it over again, I probably would have pursued medical school. Because the clinical part of it is really where I started, I think that was my niche but I couldn’t stay there, ultimately I had to forge forward to the forefront of the business to give directions, give guidance.” Cedric takes pride in his work and decided to approach things differently after taking ownership. He added, “In order to bring value, credence and even knowledge to the business it would be better for us to reveal to people what we did in full capacity and have people ask questions, because you need to be. As difficult as it may be you need to be comfortable with not only with the service provider but what’s taking place.” Daphne worked at Aflac and Tsys for a combination of 23 years but is now living her dream of owning her own boutique. As a child, she loved playing with dress up with her four sisters, and now she says. “It feels wonderful! It feels natural; it feels like I’m finally in touch with everything that’s in me. And I feel like, I have the potential to achieve everything I’ve dreamed.” In January the purchase of Jenie’s made that life long dream come true. After years of working the Hill’s began to re-think their plans. They credit much of their success on staying focused and following their dreams no matter what. Daphne stated, “Each one of us, every person I believe is born with a dream and that, that dream will never die and as long as they don’t give up on it and continue to pursue it regardless of the obstacles that get in their way they continue to move forward and just seek after that dream that they will achieve it.” For WLTZ NBC 38, I’m Maria Jones. The Hill’s also credit members of their family for support as well as national leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama, who have shared their wisdom with the world. The couple has a son in High School and daughter in College. And they say they are looking forward to all the opportunities the future will bring.