We hope that our site will be able to answer any questions you might have; but if you’d rather speak to a licensed professional, please call us at McClendon-Winters Funeral Home.

Maintaining a tradition of quality service is our top priority. It is our privilege to uphold that tradition while helping you in your time of need.

We Listen Closely – And Serve Completely

Every person who comes through the doors of McClendon-Winters Funeral Home receives the same attentive service. First and foremost, we listen to you, provide suggestions if you need them, and offer heartfelt compassion. No other funeral home in our area knows you like we do. We’ve been in this area for a long time, and deeply value our connection to those who live here.

We keenly know that decision-making during the hours following the loss of a loved one is difficult. We offer the extensive information below because we know that many are not fully aware of the services available today. We hope it helps make your funeral planning just that much easier.

We are honored to offer the following services:

Funerals are an important step in the grieving process, as well as an opportunity to honor a life lived. They offer surviving family members and friends a caring, supportive environment in which to share thoughts and feelings about the death. Often funerals are the first step in the healing process.

Losing a loved one is truly difficult. Whether their passing was sudden, or due to a lingering illness, there are strong emotions to be processed. Grieving takes time, and must be honored.

A funeral or memorial service is one way to help those who are left behind take the first step in overcoming grief—that is, facing the fact that a death has occurred.

The services bring together friends and relatives who can offer comfort and support to each other at a time when it is needed most.

The Benefits of a Traditional Funeral

Whatever service is planned, it should be a personal reflection of the family and the person that died. We listen carefully to each family’s wishes and do whatever it takes to assist in creating an event that is meaningful and satisfying to all.

• Traditional Funeral

  One advantage of choosing a traditional funeral is that it follows a familiar pattern so families will know what to expect. A traditional funeral can make it easier for families and friends, because there's an established etiquette for the different stages of the ceremonies involved.

  • Calling hours or visitation
  • A formal service in a funeral home or church
  • Procession with a  hearse to escort your loved one to a cemetery
  • Earth burial or entombment of the casketed remains in a mausoleum

  Some of the costs associated with a traditional funeral will include:

  • Personal services of the funeral director
  • Embalming, dressing, cosmetology and hair arrangement
  • Use of funeral home for visitations and the funeral service
  • Hearse and other funeral vehicles
  • Casket, vault and other goods and services

• Personalized Funerals

  We take great care to offer services to those in our community who are seeking more personal ways to express grief and say goodbye to a loved one. We do not seek only to ‘dress up’ the traditional funeral services, but listen closely to our families, and create truly unique, completely personal services for your loved one.

  Some popular ways in which our client families have personalized funerals include:

  • Display arts, crafts, or other personal artifacts that were cherished by the deceased
  • Lead the funeral procession past some of the deceased's favorite spots.
  • Hold the funeral in a favorite spot of the deceased, especially if he or she was not a churchgoer.
  • Playing favorite songs during the Calling hours or service.
  • Releasing balloons, at the interment, as a celebration of the life and ethereal spirit of the deceased.
  • Presentation of a personalized photo display, digital or video memorial.
  • Family and friends are invited to write letters containing their unspoken thoughts, which are then placed in the casket with the deceased.
  • Online guest books. All comments left by Web site visitors are noted to the funeral register for the family.
  • Live music played at services.

• Direct (Immediate) Burials

  Direct burial includes local transfer of the deceased to the funeral home, required authorizations, services of funeral director and staff, transportation of the deceased by livery to local area cemetery. Our prices do not include cemetery charges.

• Nationwide and International Services

  If your loved one dies far from Okmulgee County, we will help you return their body to you. And, should you wish a loved one returned to their birthplace, or to another location for interment or entombment, we can make all the arrangements for you. Call us to discuss your needs.

• Limited Services Options

  Every family is unique. We listen not only with our ears, but with our hearts and will consider all your financial and emotional constraints in designing a funeral or memorial service that suits your needs. No matter what your budget or your vision for your loved one’s service, we’re here to help.

Cremation refers to the way in which you choose to handle the physical remains of you or your loved one. Whether you choose burial, or cremation, you can still have a traditional funeral, or a simple memorial service, with or without the cremated remains.

You can also select direct cremation, which includes local transfer of the deceased to funeral home, required authorizations, services of a funeral director and staff, transportation of the deceased by livery to local crematory, an alternative container for cremation and the return of the cremains to the funeral home.

If you want to arrange a direct cremation, you can use an alternative container. Alternative containers encase the body and can be made of materials like fiberboard or composition materials.

• Veterans Services/Military Funerals

  All veterans qualify for military funeral honors and many veteran benefits, regardless of their rank or the place of burial. The following groups are also eligible for military honors:

  • Military members on active duty or in the Selected Reserve.
  • Former military members who served on active duty and departed under conditions other than dishonorable.
  • Former military members who completed at least one term of enlistment or a period of initial obligated service in the Selected Reserve, and who departed under conditions other than dishonorable.
  • Former military members discharged from the Selected Reserve due to a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty.

• Personalized Complete Care

  Our staff is experienced in completing the necessary paperwork involved, and gladly takes the responsibility to do so – relieving the family of this burdensome task.

  We are completely committed to providing families of the veterans in our community with unsurpassed service. Please call us to learn more, at (918) 756-1677.

• Tribute Videos

  Our Life Tributes program offers a customized and animated video and a dedicated website honoring your loved one’s life. Each part of the Life Tributes program uses photos of your loved one combined with one of our various themes to create a memorial DVD that is yours to keep. This can be shown at the viewing or at a funeral service and can be viewed online.

• Personalized Register Books

  Families have a choice of several Register Books that provide a place for visitors to sign in at services. The books are personalized for each individual with a memory page and a page for a family record. Funeral service and burial place information are also recorded in the Register Book.

• Memorial Folders

  We create folders to distribute to friends and family at services or to include in thank you notes. These folders contain a verse chosen by the family along with information about the loved one. A photo of the loved one may be included in the folders.

• Prayer Cards

  Prayer Cards are personalized with birth and death information about your loved one. A verse, chosen by the family, is printed on the cards. These are handed out at services and many families choose to have extra cards printed to give to those who may not have been able to attend services.

• Thank You Notes

  Thank you notes or acknowledgement cards are personalized for our families.  There is a large choice of designs for the note cards and the cards contain a message that is chosen by the family. We are able to make these note cards available to the family long after the service is over.

• Keepsake Tributes

  Various Keepsake Urns and jewelry are available for families who wish to memorialize portions of cremated remains.

• Personalized Bookmarks

  Laminated bookmarks with copies of the obituary are created for our families.

• Balloon Release

  We can arrange for balloons to be released at the interment to celebrate the life and spirit of your loved one.

• Live Musicians

  Arrangements can be made to have local musicians perform during services at church, funeral home and cemetery. Most familiar songs can be requested.

The loss of an infant is truly one of life's most painful and emotional events. There are simply no words of comfort that we can offer that will completely fill the void left by your loss.

Sadly, for many families, this experience is not only devastating emotionally, but financially as well. We realize we cannot eliminate the emotional burden of your family's loss, but we hope we can reduce the financial one.  This special service is offered through McClendon-Winters Funeral Home, and is our way of giving something back to our community.  It is our way of helping out at this difficult time.

“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” ~ Dwight David Eisenhower

McClendon-Winters Funeral Home will assist these families in need by providing the following services and merchandise at no cost to families living in Okmulgee County.

Transportations of the child to our funeral home from a local hospital, professional services of the funeral director and staff, including arranging services, filing necessary forms, and other related items, embalming and other preparation, an infant casket, visitation for 2 hours at our funeral home the day of the service, and a graveside service at any local cemetery (family is responsible for cemetery spaces and fees related to the cemetery).

For assistance or more information about these services, please contact us directly, at (918) 756-1677.

“The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” ~Dr. Burton Grebin