Sparkman Hillcrest is a full-service funeral home, with a beautifully landscaped and maintained 88 acre Memorial Park. The park features private burial estates around the lake, a stately mausoleum and two garden mausoleums equipped with interior and exterior wall crypts, a flower shop, and two chapels.
The spacious funeral home was designed for the comfort and convenience of our client families. There are handsomely appointed staterooms, parlor walls of Venetian Marble, visitation rooms with lush mohair furniture, exquisite marble floors, and the L. N. "Bill" Sparkman Jr. Family Lounge for the perfect intimate gathering of family and friends. Every effort has been made in providing comfort and care to all.
Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park radiates balance and excellent taste. Acres of green rolling berms encircle the grounds painted with the palettes of the seasons. Like a silken Persian carpet, summer is radiant with the splendid crepe myrtle reds, pinks, and lavenders, the beds of annual blues, purples, yellows and corals. Fall flourishes with an explosion of scarlet, mahogany, russet, against a background of brown and taupe. Winter possesses its own subtle palette of live oak sage, gray, and taupe. Spring reinvigorates the landscape with early redbuds followed by blossoming Bradford Pears and Dogwoods. On the south end of the property, the "Little Mermaid" lake shimmers like a cabochon sapphire reflecting this march of the seasons.
For 116 years, the Sparkman family and Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park, has provided compassion, comfort and professionalism, as well as pride of service for families of all faiths.
We're proud to be a member of the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers. Dignity Memorial providers offer exclusive benefits, including National Transferability of prearranged services, the Bereavement Travel Program, the 24-Hour Compassion Helpline® and access to an acclaimed grief management library. As North America's premier symbol of funeral, cremation and cemetery services, the Dignity Memorial brand is your assurance of quality, value, caring service and exceptional customer satisfaction.
History of Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home
In 1893, Will R. Sparkman began a "Tradition of Excellence" in service that prevails today at Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home and Hillcrest Memorial Park. For four generations, the Sparkman family and their caring, compassionate staff have perpetuated the uncompromising standard of service that makes Sparkman Hillcrest unique in the industry and a "Dallas tradition."
In the early days, when horse-drawn carriages would lead the funeral procession from home or church to a nearby cemetery, the funeral home had been owned by the George W. Loudermilk Undertaking Company since 1893. Historically the term "undertaker" comes from the concept of one agreeing to undertake a necessary service. Early undertakers were former cabinet makers who were called upon to make coffins for the deceased. To transport coffins to the cemetery, Loudermilk matched teams and beautifully outfitted carriages sporting "the only rubber tires in the city" and became a source of great pride. As the business entered the age of the automobile, hearses were the original ambulances for transporting the sick to hospitals as well as the deceased to the burial ceremony.
The four generations of Sparkmans began when Will R. Sparkman purchased the business in 1920 and operated it under the name of Loudermilk-Sparkman for many years. In keeping with his firm's growing reputation as Dallas' premier funeral home, Sparkman moved his business to a famous city landmark in 1926, the A.H. Belo Mansion at Ross and Pearl Street, built and presented by Colonel A.H. Belo, founder of The Dallas Morning News, to his son and his family. Under lease for 50 years, the lovely mansion was remodeled, with its homelike qualities and colonial grandeur carefully preserved.
At that time, Will R. Sparkman's two sons, Louis N. and Hal C. Sparkman joined the family business. Under the presidency of the second generation of Sparkman's Louis N., the business was expanded to include a second funeral home at Garland Road and Easton to serve the White Rock and Garland areas. Louis N. Sparkman's son L. N. "Bill" Sparkman, Jr. entered the family business in 1951 as the third generation.
Today, L. N. "Bill" Sparkman, Jr. with his son David L. Sparkman continue to serve the community as the fourth generation represented.
The original Sparkman's funeral home remained at the downtown location until it moved in 1968 to its present location at Boedeker and W. Northwest Highway, resulting in what we know now as Sparkman Hillcrest. This new corporation gave the North Dallas area its major full-service funeral home surrounded by the rolling acres of a cemetery that dates back to 1850.
Over the years, Sparkman Hillcrest has provided caring service for Dallas residents including many famous and infamous.
Serving More Veterans Than Any
Other Provider
Because Dignity Memorial® providers serve more veterans than any other funeral service provider, our professionals are experts in veterans' burial benefits provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. That means when you choose a Dignity Memorial provider, you can be confident you'll understand what your VA burial benefits include and how to apply for them. Plus, we take great pride in providing veterans with respectful, dignified funerals and burials befitting of their service.
Knowledge of veterans' burial benefits and military funeral honors is just one reason so many veterans choose Dignity Memorial providers. Other offerings demonstrating our support of veterans and military personnel include:
" Benefits such as special pricing for members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion may be available
" Programs such as the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall® and the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program
" Educational resources such as the Veterans Planning Guide, which includes the handy guide "10 Important Facts About Your VA Burial Benefits." and seminars for VFW and American Legion members
With their distinctive expertise, care and compassion, Dignity Memorial providers are the right choice for veterans, active military personnel and their families.
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