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Benito & Azzaro Pacific Gardens Chapel

Address

1050 Cayuga Street
Santa Cruz, California
95062
Telephone: 831-423-5721

About Benito & Azzaro Pacific Gardens Chapel

  • Veterans honors
  • Green burial
  • Human composting (via partner)
  • Celebrants
  • Ash scattering
  • Pre-need planning

Benito & Azzaro Pacific Gardens Chapel is a funeral home in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 2000 by Gary Benito and Vince Azzaro, the business serves families throughout the greater Santa Cruz and Watsonville area. Services include burial, cremation, funeral and memorial services, pre-need planning, green burial, veterans services with military honors, ash scattering, certified celebrant services, and partner-provided memorial diamonds and human composting. The chapel occupies a 1950s greenhouse structure with original copper pipes in the floor. No on-site crematory or cemetery.

Part of the Foundation Partners Group network. Description provided by Foundation Partners Group.

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