Edwards Funeral Home
201 North 12th Street. P.O. Box 3
Fort Smith, AR 72902
(479)782-8203


Edwards Van-Alma Funeral Home
P.O. Box 1345, 4100 Alma Highway
Van Buren, AR 72956
(479)474-5081

Dignity Memorial Funeral and Cremation Service Plans

With three plans to choose from, Dignity Memorial Plans provide value in the form of simplicity of decision making, choice and affordability.

Each Dignity Memorial Provider offers:

  • Bereavement Travel Services: allows up to four family members to receive discounted airfares that are normally less than those offered by airlines, as well as savings on hotel and car rentals.
  • 100 % Service Guarantee: In the event that a surviving family member is not 100% satisfied with any aspect of the Dignity Memorial service you selected, your Dignity Memorial service provider will make every effort to correct the situation immediately. If the situation cannot be corrected, your family will receive a full refund for that portion of your family’s satisfaction.
  • National Transferability of Prearranged Funeral Services: Because our funeral home is affiliated with 1,800 other Dignity Memorial providers throughout the United States and Canada. That means if you ever move more than 75 miles away form your current place of residence, your preneed plan would be honored by any of the providers in our network.
  • Access to our Grief Management Library: You and your family will have access to award-winning videos and books designed to help families through difficult times.

Each Dignity Memorial Plan includes:

  • Extended Bereavement Travel Services: makes discounted airfares, as well as hotel and car rental savings, available to all family members and friends. This benefit is extended for one year for return trips to settle estate matters and any other family business that may arise.
  • Child/Grandchild Protection: This plan offers some financial protection in the event of an unforeseen circumstance in which any of your unmarried children or grandchildren were to pass away before the age of 21. We would provide funeral or cremation services at any of our 1800 providers at no cost, up to the level of the Dignity Memorial Plan you have selected.
  • One Hour Telephone Card: to help you notify family and friends when services will be held.
  • Personal Planning Guide: Every family member should complete this valuable guide which helps to make your wishes known and organizes information such as vital records, military history, family heritage, estate information, business knowledge and much more. This could be a great benefit to your loved ones someday.

Dignity Memorial Plans also include a variety of Family Support Benefits that can be of great value to your family both emotionally and financially.

24 Hour Compassion Helpline: Designed to help family members when traditional support groups such as friends, relatives or clergy are unavailable. This toll-free helpline is staffed 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-per-year by professionals with advanced degrees who are especially trained in grief counseling. It’s available to all immediate family members for one full year. The Compassion Helpline provides your family with somewhere to turn for support and guidance through a difficult time.

Aftercare Planner: Many families find themselves faced with finalizing their loved ones estate. Most families have never been involved in finalizing an estate and have no idea where to begin. So, to protect and provide for our families, we have developed The Aftercare Planner. This estate management guide, with more than 70 prewritten letters, is a valuable tool in helping to finalize the business and personal affairs that will arise. It’s a tool that will give your family clear direction and valuable information that will save time and money.

Everlasting Memorial, is an ideal way to celebrate life through a collection of writings, pictures, images, and documents that can be shared with family and friends around the world via the internet. The Everlasting Memorial is a Multimedia Scrapbook of family memories that will be preserved for future generations. It includes the unique biography of a loved one that can contain up to 10,000 words of text. It also include Tributes that allow you to capture heartfelt messages from loved ones across the globe that share fond memories and wishes of love and appreciation. And it includes a collection of photographs, historical documents, certificates, awards and other creative works that capture the essence of your loved one’s life. The images are then set to music, to create a dynamic display for family and friends. This provides a celebration of life for loved ones to visit at www.mem.com.

Legal Services Membership: Families sometimes discover that they are going to need legal services as they finalize their loved one’s estate. If they have never been an executor or executrix of an estate, legal questions will often need to be answered and legal guidance can be helpful. To fulfill that need, we have partnered with OmniLaw to make legal services available. As a member of OmniLaw, you will receive services supported by a network of over 10,000 attorneys. There are 11 paid-in-full membership benefits, such as unlimited toll-free telephone consultations with an attorney on all legal matters and unlimited document review for documents under 10 pages at no cost, plus unlimited face-to-face consultations for all new legal matters.