Thank you for liking our page and welcome to our family of Masters Funeral Home facebook friends. I have put together some thoughts about our funeral home which I hope you will find interesting and helpful. Our family has been serving the families of Putnam County and surrounding counties for the past 69 years and we count it an honor to be the county's most trusted family in funeral service. We are also honored to have received the "Best Funeral Home" and "Best Crematory" Readers' Choice Awards from the Palatka Daily News for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. I have had the privilege of personally serving families through our funeral home for the past 51 years. I live on the premises and am usually able to meet with families on a moment’s notice if the need arises and to provide additional security after hours. The selection of a casket is a major financial decision and we are proud to be one of the remaining Palatka funeral homes to still has a casket selection room to accommodate our families where they can actually see what they are purchasing. Every family which comes into my casket selection room sees this casket, unlike some funeral homes which only make this casket available when a family is short of funds. I do not mark up the cost of flowers when I order flowers for a family, nor will I accept a discount from a florist. That means every penny I am given for flowers goes for flowers so my families get more and nicer flowers for their money. We are not dependent upon a third party to open graves. Our own staff from Palatka Memorial Gardens opens graves at other local cemeteries as well. These dedicated men and women, who answer directly to me, usually open the graves the day before the funeral in case they should run into a problem, like a hidden tree stump. We are usually able to leave the cemetery tent up a few days which helps keep the flowers nicer. To better serve our families our Palatka funeral home, located directly across from Oak Hill Cemetery, is the most spacious in the county providing the largest seating capacity in our chapel which is very helpful with people needing to socially distance themselves due to COVID. We also have the most on-site parking spaces which have recently been repaved and seal coated. Behind the funeral home we operate our own crematory which is the only one in Palatka. We have the only Putnam County crematory which does not cremate for out of town funeral homes. That way we are able to give our own families 100% of our attention. Our crematory is only operated by licensed funeral directors. As licensed funeral directors we are held to a high standard of integrity. When a loved one is entrusted to us for cremation, the body reposes safely inside our funeral home building, not in an out of town out-building, where other employees from out of town funeral homes are allowed to come and go, delivering bodies to be cremated. We offer expert monument service, shipping service and we have a very close relationship with Palatka Memorial Gardens, which my family owns and I manage. To give an example of the type of monument work we do, please look in the Oak Hill West Cemetery (the old drive-in theatre), especially in the back right corner. You will see a lot of leaning monuments. Some say this is because of too much irrigation. The funny thing is none of my monuments are leaning. That's because we put a good concrete foundation under our monuments. We offer a complimentary Video Tribute made from photos our families share of their loved ones. My wife of 46 years, Frankie, produces these videos and we have received a lot of positive feedback because of all of the extra work she puts into this added service. We pioneered the use of Video Tributes among Putnam County funeral homes. We post our obituaries on our page which reaches over 6,900 people, much more than our competitors, which helps to get the word out due to declining readership of the Palatka Daily News. We also post our obituaries on our website, www.themastersfuneralhome.com . We will also keep you informed about other events at our funeral home, like our Christmas service and our Memorial Day service held at Palatka Memorial Gardens. I appreciate your interest in our page and please feel free to contact me at 386-325-4564 if I can ever be of assistance to you. Thank you. Quincy Masters
