Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial Services

Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial has served the Bay Terrace area for over twenty years. Mark Jenkins the owner of Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial has been working with people throughout the Bay Terrace area to create a lower cost funeral alternative to meet the needs of funeral consumers. Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial guarantees deserving care to its clients along with quality service and products. Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial offers nothing but the best to its clients, we strive to give support possible during this difficult time. We attempt to create an atmosphere of comfort, we are not a large organization and we see this as a strong point. Due to our smaller size we are able to service the Bay Terrace area with more personal care than would a huge facility.
Services Offered

At Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial we provide a wide array of services to fit the needs a family. Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial offers a “Traditional Service” this service upon request includes viewing. At Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial the choices also include a “Graveside Service,” a “Memorial Service” as well as a “Cremation Service.” At Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial the funeral directors will help you pick the right service for you and explain all the details that you should know. Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial strives to make end of the life issues easier on the family. Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial offers also offers a wide variety of products including: funeral caskets, memorial urns, floral arrangements as well as registry books. At Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial we provide exceptional service to all areas of Bay Terrace and will take care of all your end of life services.

Why Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial?

• Bay Terrace’s most knowledgeable and caring end of life issues consultants.
• Not a large conglomerate providing you with more person to person attention.
• Offers a plethora of options to fit your needs.
• Strives to remain inexpensive making your times a little easier.
• Serving all of Bay Terrace with great care.
• You are assured the peace of mind, integrity and deserving care.
• Selling quality goods from well known vendors.

What Makes Us Better?

Compassion: All of our caring and polite staff understand what a difficult time it is for you and we do the best to make the planning process easy for you.

Bay Terrace Preferred Cremation and Burial offers significant savings to all customers, they have lowers prices then their competition and provide only 100% quality assured products. We strive to make this process an easy and memorable one for you.

More about Bay Terrace, California

Robbins Jorgensen Christopher is the landscape architect for the conceptual design of Bay Terrace Park in the City of San Diego. This park was originally designed and developed in the late 1980’s. Since the time of its inception, the park has fallen into a state of decline with many of the Eucalyptus trees infested with the longhorn beetle.

The concept for revitalizing the park was to provide more diversity in the tree selection and to propose fast-growing trees to provide much-needed shade.

A 3000 square feet Community Center is proposed. This facility was located on a gentle slope to save the flat areas of the park for ball fields and soccer fields.

Two ball fields are propose and two basketball half-courts as well as landscaping around the Community Center and parking lot.

The Bay Terrace community was established in the 1950’s, when the cooperatives (Sections 1-12) were built. The last sections were completed in the mid-1960’s. Prior to that, the neighborhood area was considered part of Bayside. The entire area was known as Flushing, after the Dutch word “Vlissingen.” The Village of Bay Side (original spelling) did not appear in any legal document until 1798 Bay Terrace encompasses 200 acres between 26th Avenue and Fort Totten. The history of the area is a rich one.

In 1968 there was an archaeological study of the Bayside/Bay Terrace area which suggested that it has been inhabited over 9100 years. That, of course, includes prehistoric cultures.

I’d like to begin with the 17th century, A.D. and a brief discussion of the Matinecock Indians, long term inhabitants of this area. These Indians were members of the Algonquin Nation and were known as a peaceful people. Matinecock is the Indian word for “people of hilly land.” They were particularly known for their manufacture of wampum (their form of money), longhouses (homes that housed multiple families for long periods of time), and for the beautiful singing voices of the women.

I tried to determine when the Indians came to Bayside, but it appears that this is very vague. At best, I learned that these Indians probably came from Asia and Europe, most likely via the Bering Strait. As we know, many Indian nations inhabited the United States long before the Dutch and English settlers arrived in the 1600’s. In our region alone the Indian nations included the Wyandanch, Shinnecock and Montauk. Any of these names sound familiar?

The New Settlers

In the 1640’s the English and the Dutch began to settle around Little Neck Bay. The Matinecock had already settled there. The fishing was good and they also did light farming. The new settlers bartered land from the Indians and then decided they wanted more and more. In 1645, Thomas Hicks (Hicks Nurseries) attacked the peaceful (and unarmed) Matinecock with muskets and drove them from their land. The final battle was fought at what we know as Northern Boulevard. and Marathon Parkway. Able-bodied men were killed. Women, children and the elderly were allowed to survive. Some fled to Connecticut, others escaped to Eastern Long Island. By 1732, the Matinecock villages were all gone from Bayside.

There were several prominent families that settled in Bay Terrace including the Willets, the Bells, and the Lawrences. There is a cemetery at 216th Street and 42nd Avenue where the Lawrence family members are buried. The original Bell property was located at Bell Boulevard and 38th Avenue, now home of the Gleason Funeral Home.

A Summer Resort

During the mid-1800’s, Bayside became a summer resort complete with hotels and yacht clubs. One well known hotel was The Crocheron (sound familiar!). The wealthy built mansions on Little Neck Bay that they used as summer homes to get away from the simmering summers in Manhattan.

The Movie Colony

From the 1890’s to the 1940’s, Bayside was a major movie colony. Stars, including Pearl White (Perils of Pauline), W.C. Fields, Marie Dressler (Tugboat Annie), Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, and the producer, John Golden all had homes in Bayside/Bay Terrace. Films, such as “Sally of the Sawdust” were filmed in Bayside. Mary Martin (Peter Pan) used to visit The Bell Tavern along Bell Boulevard. Oscar Hammerstein had an estate near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Today we know this as Wildflowers Condominiums.

Cord Meyer

In 1850, Robert Willet built a mansion on Little Neck Bay. His daughter Amelia, and her husband, A. Howland Leavitt, inherited the mansion. Ownership was transferred to Leavitt’s daughter and her husband, Charles Garrison Meyer. The property (88 acres) was originally part of the Meyer family farm. The name Bay Terrace was used to identify the area sold by the family in 1939 and was used in topological maps.

In 1952, residential development of Bay Terrace Sections 1-12 began and continued into the mid-1960’s. Commercial development also began in the 1950’s. The shopping center certainly does not look anything like it looked back in the 50’s and 60’s. It has grown up, just as the Bay Terrace Community has grown.

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Bay Terrace Community Alliance