Normal Heights Preferred Cremation and Burial Services

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

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

Why Normal Heights Preferred Cremation and Burial?

• Normal Heights’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 Normal Heights 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.

Normal Heights 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 Normal Heights, California

In the late 1800s the area that would become Normal Heights was sparsely populated farmland with only a sprinkling of houses. It was formally organized and platted in 1906 by the University Heights Syndicate under the direction of D.C. Collier and named Normal Heights for the State Normal School in University Heights.

Normal Heights was named for the San Diego Normal School, a teacher's college that was the forerunner to San Diego State University. A major early influence on the community was Bertram J. Carteri, who arrived in 1926 and began to build single-family bungalows. With the restoration of the trolley line in the early 1920s, Carteri began to build what is now known as the Carteri Center on Adams Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets, which has been declared a potential historic district. The most significant structure is the Louis L. Gill designed bungalow court first named El Sueño; now known as Santa Rosa Court.

The Normal Heights Community is made up of three neighborhoods, which are Adams North, Adams Park, and Cherokee Park. Adams North is developed as a predominately single-family neighborhood, while Adams Park and Cherokee Park include a broader mix of single-family homes, older apartment courts and large apartment developments.

In 1907 trolley tracks for Line #11 were laid to the western edge of Ward Canyon with a spur line up today's 35th Street to a gravel quarry. In 1910 Bonnie Brae was platted by Collier east of the gravel quarry to the canyon rim overlooking Ward Road.

Transportation brought population and development to Normal Heights. The man responsible for the main business development of the Normal Heights portion of Adams Avenue was a carpenter named Bertram J. Carteri. He moved to the area in 1916 and began buying, fixing up and selling houses. He bought his first commercial lot, Adams Avenue between Felton and 33rd Streets in c.1922 and, in partnership with noted local architect Louis J. Gill (nephew of Irving Gill), began building what would be known as Carteri Center.  (Brief History provided by J. McKee of SOHO)

Normal Heights in 1906
On some maps, Normal Heights was shown as "uninhabited territory."

The streets and alleys were dirt (there were no sidewalks) and not paved until 1913-14 by our favorite contractor, George H. Oswald. Dust was undoubtedly a problem, but parking surely wasn't.

There was no Number 11 Trolley serving our part of Adams Avenue or a bridge over Ward Road. There was one farmhouse at 3946 Madison. It's still there.

The May 9, 1906 issue of the San Diego Sun advertised a man's two-piece suit for $11.50; women's leather shoes ranged in price from $2.00-$3.50 a pair. Hillers Market at 24th and Logan offered 17 pounds of cane sugar for $1.00 and Mexican Java coffee at twenty-five cents per pound. There was a curtain sale at Marston's Department Store.

The population of the 45 United States was nearly 92 million. (The next three states to enter the Union -- Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona -- were still territories.) California's population was approximately 2.3 million, and San Diego's was estimated at 27,000 by the Chamber of Commerce.

The governor of California was George C. Pardee. The mayor of San Diego was John L. Sehon, who governed with a Common Council, and the County Board of Supervisors had six members: James H. Cassidy, Howard M. Cherry, Joseph Foster, John Griffin, James A. Jasper, and William Justice.

Eight hundred and twelve residents claimed Normal Heights as home by 1910, according to the U.S. Census.

In 2006, Normal Heights is definitely "inhabited territory," with at least 15,000 residents, and dust is not much of a problem, but parking surely is.