Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial Services

Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial has served the Carmel Valley area for over twenty years. Mark Jenkins the owner of Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial has been working with people throughout the Carmel Valley area to create a lower cost funeral alternative to meet the needs of funeral consumers. Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial guarantees deserving care to its clients along with quality service and products. Carmel Valley 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 Carmel Valley area with more personal care than would a huge facility.
Services Offered

At Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial we provide a wide array of services to fit the needs a family. Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial offers a “Traditional Service” this service upon request includes viewing. At Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial the choices also include a “Graveside Service,” a “Memorial Service” as well as a “Cremation Service.” At Carmel Valley 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. Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial strives to make end of the life issues easier on the family. Carmel Valley 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 Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial we provide exceptional service to all areas of Carmel Valley and will take care of all your end of life services.

Why Carmel Valley Preferred Cremation and Burial?

• Carmel Valley’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 Carmel Valley 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.

Carmel Valley 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 Carmel Valley, California

Carmel Valley is one of the newer villages of the City of San Diego, California.

Carmel Valley is a master planned community that began with the institutional name that was formed by the City of San Diego in 1982 and is located just east of Del Mar, California and south of Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Originally only occupying a small area, Carmel Valley has grown by leaps and bounds. With the development of Torrey Hills and other adjacent areas, the community now fills the entire 92130 zip code.

Currently, there are approximately 40,000 people reported to live in Carmel Valley. It is also the home to some of San Diego's prominent companies and law firms. Carmel Valley is also home to Torrey Pines High School, one of the premier public high schools in the nation in academics and athletics.

Carmel Valley lies east of I-5 and Del Mar on the northern edge of the City of San Diego.  The earliest settlers were California Indians who left artifacts  along the Carmel Creek bed.  A Spanish soldier named the area Cordero; early American settlers named other areas such as McGonigle Canyon after themselves.

The Butterfield stage and pony express system ran along what is now El Camino Real.  In 1905, a group of Carmelite nuns built a monastery and dairy in the area changing its name again.  The area was agricultural and devoted to horse farms until the mid-1970s.

A master plan developed in 1974 wanted to change the name of the area to "North City West"  and advocated developing a series of residential neighborhoods on the mesas, leaving the canyons as open space.  The name change didn't stick and the local residents changed it back to Carmel Valley in the early 1990s.

Development of the residential areas began in 1983, and there are now a variety of luxury homes, condominiums and apartments available.  Residents are executives and professionals who often work in nearby Sorrento Mesa or Sorrento Valley's high-tech and bio-tech firms. There is also a developing business park in the area.

Residents are active and take advantage of the area's open space to bike, skate, walk and run.  The Carmel Valley Community Park offers a sports facility that includes playing fields, a swimming pool and a gym. Summer concerts are held in the park, and homes are close to the beaches in La Jolla and Del Mar; the famous Torrey Pines Golf Course and the Torrey Pines State Reserve.

    Photo of Community Center

Carmel Valley is a newer, master-planned community that has matured into a place where people can live, work and play. Families with children are attracted by the large houses and award winning schools. Area amenities and easy access to much of San Diego County make the commercial center of Carmel Valley ideal for corporate offices, hotels, shopping and restaurants.

Recreational options include many neighborhood parks, a community recreation center, athletic clubs, golf and the nearby beaches at Torrey Pines and Del Mar. An early experimenter in smart growth, Carmel Valley includes open space areas and an extensive trail system.

The earliest known inhabitants of Carmel Valley were the La Jolla and subsequent Ipai peoples, who left cultural artifacts along the banks of Carmel Creek. During the Rancho period, the area was known as Cordero, after a Spanish "leather jacket" soldier. Following the California Gold Rush, miners drifted south and established homesteads here. McGonigle Canyon was named after an early settler. An old adobe Butterfield pony express and stagecoach stop sat next to a spring along old El Camino Real until the late 1970s. Later, the area was largely used for horse farms and agriculture, focusing on drought tolerant crops such as lima beans, which were grown on the property that later became The Grand Del Mar golf course.

Around 1905 the Carmelite Sisters of Mercy established a dairy farm and monastery in the area. The site, on the south side of Carmel Creek, was connected by a bridge to the St. William of York Church, whose cemetery includes the graves of some of the nuns and priests. Among other things, the nuns raised pigs, and even now local animal-keeping provisions say, "except for swine." Carmel Mountain, the last undeveloped coastal mesa in Southern California, takes its name from these nuns.

While the area has long been known to local residents as Carmel Valley, the master plan commissioned in 1974, adopted the name "North City West." This plan, inspired by Kevin Lynch, attempted to reduce sprawl by confining development to the mesa tops, leaving the canyons untouched. Planned development centered around an urban core surrounded by decreasing residential densities, where higher density residential areas were traded for increased community open space.

Carmel Creek, now largely marked by SR-56 and the CVREP corridor, was intended to meander freely to the sea, allowing water to return to the ground and providing residents with natural open space and recreational opportunities. The first houses in the planned community were built in 1983 and the local Planning Board brought back the name "Carmel Valley" in the early 1990s.

Local Carmel Valley government advising boards consist of the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board which advises the City on development and land use, and the Carmel Valley Recreation Council which provides community input on parks and recreation. City facilities include a fire station, and library. A police station is being constructed along El Camino Real. 

Information and things to do

North Coast Repertory Theater

California Center for the Arts

San Diego Chamber Orchestra

San Diego Symphony

Coors Amphitheater

Humphry's Concerts