Cremation Services in Everett, Washington

Providence Regional Medical Center Everett is the only hospital in the city, and it runs on two campuses that a local distinguishes without thinking. The Colby Campus at 1700 13th Street holds the emergency department and the only adult Level II trauma center in Snohomish County. The Pacific Campus at 916 Pacific Avenue holds maternity and the Level III neonatal unit.

That distinction matters for paperwork. An adult who dies in the hospital in Everett almost certainly dies at Colby; an infant death is recorded at Pacific, a different street address on the certificate. Between the two campuses Providence is licensed for 595 beds, which is more than the rest of the county combined.

Beyond the city, Swedish Edmonds at 21601 76th Avenue West is 217 beds and Level IV, and EvergreenHealth Monroe is the public hospital district that older residents still call Valley General.

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The Snohomish County Health Department Vital Records office is at 3020 Rucker Avenue, Suite 104, on 425-339-5290, issuing weekdays 8:00 to 4:30, with a later start on the first and third Thursday of the month. In person you walk out with the copies; by mail it is two business days plus post each way; online is two to three business days.

This office publishes the clearest statement of scope in the state, and it is the one that answers the question families actually ask. It issues Everett deaths from 1953, Snohomish County deaths from 1960, and all Washington State deaths that were filed electronically, starting in 2011. So for a death anywhere in Washington since 2011, you can order it here rather than travelling to the county it happened in. That is the practical effect of the statewide register under RCW 70.58A.530.

One caution on the fee. The county page shows $20 a copy while state law sets $25, and the same page still refers to the Snohomish Health District, a name the agency has retired. Call before you post a check. We order certificates at $30 each and file the record for you.

The Daily Herald is still publishing from 1800 41st Street. Obituaries go through 425-339-3023 or heraldnet.obituaries.com, and a permanent online memorial comes free with any paid obituary. The paper publishes no obituary rate, only that pricing is flexible according to length and photographs.

It does publish its legal notice rate, which is a useful thing to know for a different reason: $2.94 per line per day, with a deadline of 3:00pm two business days before publication, on 425-339-3089. That is the rate for a probate notice to creditors, not for an obituary, and the two get confused.

Snohomish County recognizes eleven legal newspapers, so if you live outside Everett your local weekly, the Marysville Globe, the Edmonds Beacon, the Stanwood-Camano News or another, may be the more natural place. None publishes a free death notice. A complete obituary on this site, with photographs, is included in our price at no charge.

Washington’s statute is RCW 68.50.130 and the Department of Licensing publishes what it permits. The list includes public navigable waters, naming Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, along with rivers, streams and lakes; private land with the owner’s consent; national parks with the chief ranger’s permission; and state trust uplands with the Department of Natural Resources region manager’s permission.

Their practical instruction: scatter only the contents, and dispose of the container separately along with the numbered disc inside it.

For families here that usually means Possession Sound or the Snohomish River, both navigable water and both on the permitted list. The Cascades are a different matter: North Cascades National Park requires a letter of authorization, and the special use permit application carries a $50 fee. Scattering at sea is available through us for $195.

Everett is the clearest example in our whole service area of a market held by one company. Evergreen Funeral Home and Cemetery at 4504 Broadway, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park on Everett Mall Way, and Purdy and Walters at Floral Hills in Lynnwood are all three owned by Service Corporation International and trade as Dignity Memorial. There is no significant independent alternative in the city.

What they publish, and the caveat that goes with it. Evergreen shows columbaria from $2,500, cremation gardens from $2,000 and urn burial from $2,500. Floral Hills shows columbaria and cremation gardens from $2,000. Cypress Lawn publishes nothing. All of these are Dignity’s own rounded “starting at” figures, and the ten percent prepayment discount they advertise applies only to limited sections of the cemetery. Treat them as a floor to ask about, not as a price.

We do not sell cemetery property and take no commission on it, so you are free to arrange this directly with whichever cemetery you choose.

Every source below is something a family can claim and most never learn about. Working down the list in order is the quickest way through it.

The first call is Social Security, for the $255 lump-sum death payment. It goes to a surviving spouse, and where there is none, to a child aged 17 or under, 18 or 19 and in full-time school, or disabled before 21. Claim it within two years or lose it. Call 1-800-772-1213, weekdays 8:00 to 7:00. A my Social Security account may allow an online start. If you would rather go in, book an appointment first and find the office at ssa.gov/locator, not from a list on a funeral home site.

If the person was a veteran, start here before anything else. Tahoma National Cemetery near Kent, at 425-413-9614, is the nearest VA national cemetery accepting new interments, listed by the VA as having space for casketed and cremated remains. Nothing closer is available: Fort Lawton Post Cemetery in Seattle is closed to new interments, taking only subsequent interments in existing gravesites, and Fort Worden at Port Townsend is closed as well. The Washington State Veterans Cemetery at Medical Lake, 509-299-6280, accepts cremated remains and charges nothing for the veteran, though a family member interment carries a fee, so ask when you call.

Straight from the VA, because paraphrase causes trouble here: the benefit includes “a gravesite in any of our national cemeteries with available space, opening and closing of the grave, perpetual care, a Government headstone or marker, a burial flag, and a Presidential Memorial Certificate, at no cost to the family.” Cremated remains are treated identically, inurned “in the same manner and with the same honors as casketed remains.” Spouses and dependent children are eligible at no cost, their names inscribed on the veteran’s headstone rather than on a separate one, and a surviving spouse who has since remarried remains eligible. Booking runs through the National Cemetery Scheduling Office rather than the cemetery itself, on 1-800-535-1117, with discharge papers faxed to 866-900-6417 first.

Beyond the ground itself there is an allowance. A death not connected to service draws $1,002 for burial and $1,002 for a plot at the rates effective October 1, 2025, on Form 21P-530EZ within two years of the burial. The catch families walk into: use a national cemetery and the plot allowance does not apply, there being no plot cost to reimburse. One or the other. The VA benefits line is 1-800-827-1000.

Snohomish County runs a Veterans Assistance Program out of Human Services at 3000 Rockefeller Avenue in the Drewel Building, on 425-388-7255, open weekdays 8:00 to 11:00 and 1:00 to 4:00. Be aware of what it does and does not say. The county publishes emergency vouchers, case management and claims help, but publishes no burial or cremation benefit and no dollar figure, and county code sets neither a maximum nor an income limit. That does not mean there is nothing. RCW 73.08.070 obliges every Washington county to bear the disposition cost of an indigent veteran or an indigent veteran’s family member at not less than $300, and to reimburse relatives or friends who paid it themselves. Call and ask them to apply the statute.

The Tulalip Tribes are the largest tribal government in this county and run a Funeral Services department at 6406 Marine Drive, Tulalip, on 360-716-4000. It provides a one or two day service at the Tulalip Gathering Hall including dinner, a blanket, a photo display and a memorial video, and coordinates casket, urn and obituary arrangements, for enrolled members and legal spouses. Note carefully that the only cash figure the Tribes publish is a $200 clothing allowance; they do not state that they pay funeral home or cremation costs, so ask rather than assume. The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians at 360-652-7362 and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe at 360-436-0131 publish no funeral program. Bureau of Indian Affairs burial assistance of up to $3,500 for indigent enrolled members runs through the Puget Sound Agency, which is here in Everett at 2707 Colby Avenue, Suite 1101, on 425-622-9158.

One that is almost never mentioned and is worth thousands: Washington pays funeral costs when the death was a homicide. The Crime Victims Compensation Program at Labor and Industries covers up to $7,990 for a death occurring on or after July 1, 2023, and up to twelve grief counseling sessions for immediate family members. It requires that the crime was reported to police within a year, and the claim filed within three years of that report. 1-800-762-3716.

Snohomish County meets its duty through the Medical Examiner at 9509 29th Avenue West, on 425-438-6200, under county code sections 2.74.061 and 2.74.062. The county’s own wording is worth reading before you rely on it: in a very limited number of deaths where no family is found and no one is able to make arrangements, the county has very limited funds to cremate. And this, which matters more: if a family cannot pay and abandons the body, the county will cremate at its own expense but the family will have no right to make funeral arrangements, and the remains are held a year and a day while next of kin are sought. That is a last resort with a real cost attached, not a benefit to apply for. Talk to us first.

Where none of this helps, we would still rather hear from you than watch a family go into debt over a cremation. Call and we will go through it properly.