Choosing a monument, memorial or marker to honor a loved one should be carefully thought out beforehand.

To begin with, the cemetery you choose will have certain gravesite regulations that will affect what you can and cannot do. At Ocala Marble & Granite Works, we’re intimately familiar with each cemetery and memorial garden and their regulations, so we can advise and guide you properly in your selection regarding your compliance with these regulations. We have placed more than 20,000 monuments in cemeteries throughout Florida.

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Most folks are unaware that many of the cemeteries or memorial gardens out there today are owned and managed by large corporations. It should come as no surprise then that the corporate owned memorial garden is concerned primarily with turning a profit. In fact, these corporate companies have spent a lot of time and money in recent years lobbying behind the government scenes trying to create new laws and rules limiting consumer choices when it comes to gravesites and monuments. The bottom line is this: the corporations want to cut out the traditional family owned monument companies and create an environment where you are forced to buy from them and no one else.

The Florida Monument Builder’s Association, a group of independent monument dealer/installers throughout the state (which Ocala Marble & Granite Works is a member), has spent years trying to fight these corporate monopolies from succeeding.

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