Alexandra Petrini says she prefers staying behind the scenes – so families who visit Cypress Lawn might not always get a chance to meet her, but they are certainly impacted by her work. Petrini is a licensed embalmer and serves as the Preparation Room Manager at Cypress Lawn.

Cypress Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park is proud to offer a new way of serving Bay Area families, which will make planning end-of-life arrangements more convenient than ever before. We have created a special area on our website designed to help you easily schedule a free virtual preplanning consultation with one of our certified preneed counselors.

By Cypress Lawn Arboretum Director Josh Gevertz A headstone of polished granite — ornate, intricately detailed, and artfully inscribed — stands to commemorate a life gone by. Stone is a stoic thing; as eternal tributes to beloved people, we intend for our mausoleums, statuary, and monuments to remain immutable, as sacrosanct vessels of cherished memories. …
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By Terry Hamburg, Director of the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation Cypress Lawn has acquired Olivet Memorial Park in Colma. Situated at the base of the San Bruno Mountains, with huge cypress and palm trees throughout, Mount Olivet — as it was originally named — opened in 1896, four years after Cypress Lawn. Known as the …
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A tree is a versatile metaphor for life itself — indeed, examples of this are scattered across our cultural history as a thousand leaves upon an autumn lawn. From the tempting fruits of Eden to the meditative enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama beneath the sacred Bodhi tree; from the shrouded mystery of J.K. Rowling’s Forbidden Forest …
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By Terry Hamburg, Director of the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation April 18 was the 116th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. In this blog, we are paying tribute to the late Gladys Hansen and her contribution to scholarship. Hansen was appointed as the first (and only) chief archivist of the City of SanFrancisco. Through …
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By Cypress Lawn Arboretum Director Josh Gevertz Looking up into the canopy above me, on an afternoon stroll across the Arboretum grounds, a sure sign of the turn of spring catches my eye. Behold, such a burst of vibrant green! The radiance of youth glimmers in the sun, emerging from the end of each branch, this ...
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By Terry Hamburg, Director of the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation Cypress Lawn has purchased Olivet Memorial Park, which includes a crematory and a funeral home. This acquisition will improve our delivery systems for services, cremations, and receptions; reduce annual irrigation costs;  and open up access to 8 additional acres of land for cemetery sales. Situated ...
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All across San Francisco and the Bay Area, people are spending their days inside waiting for the end of the COVID-19 crisis. At Cypress Lawn Funeral Home & Cemetery, we are doing our best to serve our community during this time of uncertainty. We know that many of you are separated from family, friends, and ...
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  Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all industries are having to make significant changes to support the populations they serve, and the funeral industry is no different during this time of ever-changing circumstances. Cypress Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park and its trusted providers across the Bay Area are prepared with the latest technology ...
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