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Aycock Funeral Home & Hillcrest Memorial Gardens are proud to serve families in Saint Lucie and Indian River County. As sister locations, our funeral home and cemetery allow you to conveniently take care of all your funeral and burial arrangements.

A welcoming funeral home

Front exterior building entrance at Aycock Funeral Home. Located on Highway 1 in Fort Pierce, Aycock Funeral Home is a contemporary, home-like setting. Our facility includes well-appointed and comfortable rooms for visitations and receptions, as well as a chapel for on-site services.

Aycock Funeral Home provides a range of services to help you through one of the most challenging stages of life. We understand that losing a loved one is a difficult emotional experience. That's why we are committed to meeting your service expectations. Whether you are interested in a traditional funeral service, cremation with ashes scattered in a personally meaningful place or a creative celebration of life, the options are truly endless.

Whichever service you choose, we provide a personalized occasion. From scrapbooking to sailboats, or guitars to golf balls, we take the aspects that mattered most to your loved one and put them together to create a singular, heartfelt memorial. Our team at Aycock Funeral Home is experienced in most religious and ethnic customs, as well as military and fraternal organization protocols.

Hillcrest Memorial Gardens

Cemetery grounds with above the ground headstones at Aycock Funeral Home. Hillcrest Memorial Gardens covers 41 sweeping acres between Fort Pierce and Vero Beach, on the east side of Highway 1. The picturesque cemetery has 11 statuary features, including a prominent arch and cross located in the center of the property at the highest point. These features create a graceful backdrop for our many cemetery options, including private family and community mausoleum crypts, niches for cremation urns, space for in-ground burials, lawn crypts, private burial estates and cremation gardens.

With this wide variety of cemetery options, we are certain that your family will find an arrangement that best suits your needs and wishes.

We honor veterans

Aycock Funeral Home & Hillcrest Memorial Gardens understands the unique needs of America’s veterans and their families. As a Level One Founding Community Partner with We Honor Veterans, our staff is knowledgeable in the benefits available to veterans and their families. With respect, integrity and dignity, we will walk you through the steps of creating a veteran's memorial service that truly honors the life and sacrifice of your loved one.

Holiday luminary event

Each December, we invite the public to join us for a community luminary service. We light thousands of candles throughout the cemetery grounds and funeral home, turning the property into a glowing tribute to the loved ones we have served.

History

G. Wade Aycock opened Aycock Funeral Home in Stuart on South Federal Highway in December 1968. A businessman and compassionate funeral professional, he quickly established a reputation for providing fine funeral, memorial, burial and cremation services.

Treasure Coast expansion

Cemetery grounds at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens His 1st expansion was into Jensen Beach in 1973. Later, in 1982, Wade opened a 3rd location of Aycock Funeral Home on Floresta Drive in Port Saint Lucie. Aycock-Riverside Funeral and Cremation Center opened in Jupiter in 1987. The 5th Aycock Funeral Home was added to the grounds of Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Fort Pierce in 1996.

Along the way, the original Stuart location also built an on-site crematory. Aycock Funeral Home opened a 2nd location on Bayshore Boulevard in Port Saint Lucie in 1995. It combined operations with Roger L. Byrd – Port St. Lucie Funeral Home in 2004 and is now known as Aycock Funeral Home – Byrd, Young & Prill Chapel. In addition, a 2nd Stuart location operates as Aycock Funeral Home – Young & Prill Chapel, about 15 minutes south of the original Stuart location.

Hillcrest Memorial Gardens and affiliated locations

Water feature at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Hillcrest Memorial Gardens was founded in 1954 while Aycock Funeral Home was built on the cemetery grounds in 1996.

Aycock Funeral Home & Hillcrest Memorial Gardens are both affiliated with other Aycock Funeral Home locations in Jupiter, Stuart, Port Saint Lucie and Jensen Beach, as well as Fernhill Memorial Gardens & Mausoleum in Stuart and Riverside Memorial Park in Tequesta.

Both Aycock Funeral Home & Hillcrest Memorial Gardens are members of the Dignity Memorial® network, the largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services in North America. Working together as funeral home and cemetery, our teams are here for you.

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Amenities

Location

Flexible event space
Facility is available to host your personal events
Large-capacity chapel
Celebration of Life center
Facility is designed for personalized funeral celebrations
Veterans cemetery section
Modern funeral home
Flexible chapel space
Our chapel can be used for hosting your religious events
Beautiful views
Cemetery spaces available
Custom headstones and markers
Family estate lots
Family estates are a distinguished tribute to a family legacy. They can be customized with stained glass, benches and landscaping
Flat markers
Grave markers that sit flush to the ground in the material of preference
Upright headstones
Mausoleums
Private or Community spaces for urns as well as caskets, that can be Indoor or outdoor
On-site cemetery

Cremation

Cremation remembrance jewelry
Cremation options
Cremation niches
Option for home delivery of ashes
Option for mail delivery of ashes
Sent through postal mail service, signature required.
Scattering assistance
Cremation gardens

Service

Arrangements by phone or email
Complete funeral planning, including electronic signature, without needing a funeral home visit
Catered events
White-glove service
Locations offering the highest level of service and care
Large reception area
Event planning
Services available to support planning events
Outdoor event venue
Options to have your personalized celebrations on outdoors on our property
Funeral service video production
Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
Live music available
Popular funeral music selections
Intimate gatherings
Meeting space
Space available for corporate and organization meetings
Marker unveiling
Ceremony where the tombstone is placed at your loved one’s gravesite
In-home visitations
Services available to coordinate visitation or viewing at a private residence
Black car service
Police escort available
Cemetery flower arrangement delivery

Religious & Cultural

Multicultural funerals
Latin music selections
Catholic cemetery section
Muslim cemetery section
Jewish cemetery section
Kosher catering

Other

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Livestreaming of services

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INCLUDES EVERYTHING YOU NEED:

Filing for death certificates
Securing burial permits
Helping with insurance claims
Giving guidance on Social Security survivors benefits

Every detail remembered

100% SERVICE GUARANTEE
If for some reason you’re dissatisfied with any aspect of your service, we’ll refund that portion of the service.
LIFETIME FLEXIBILITY
If you want to make changes to a prepaid plan, we are always available to discuss your options.
RELOCATION PROTECTION
Our prepaid plans are transferable to any of the qualifying Dignity Memorial providers in North America.