Sunset Funeral, Cremation & Casket Company

I thought everyone should know how nice the people at Sunset Funeral are! They were very helpful and since I am from out of town, they took care of everything. Their people are thoughtful and helpful and there prices are so reasonable. I would highly recommend them.

I’m so lucky too have found sunset funeral home the staff was very proficient and courteous.
When my baby sister died… I was very lost and feeling overloaded
Sunset funeral home helped me organize and understand ths new transition…
They made it affordable for my family and i… to give my sister the best home going …
Thanks so much for making it easier too deal with

I wanted to write a quick note and thank the staff at Sunset Funeral. Throughout this hard time. The service overall was excellent. They were extremely professional and sensitive to me and my family. Very pleasant to work with and made such difficult process easier than I originally had anticipated. Thank you guys.

If you lose a loved one, DO NOT! I repeat, DO NOT use Sunset Funeral and Casket Company for your loved one’s service. The funeral director Dr. Julian L. McClendon, let down my family and I numerous times during our difficult time of grief. He was unprofessional, disorganized, and lacked great integrity of his clients wishes and concerns. If I could give a rating of negative 5 stars, I would. My advice is don’t let his first impression fool you. In the beginning my family and I went with his services because he came off as precessional and supportive towards are needs. After the 3^rd meeting, his egocentric, self absorbed, sloppy behaviors became evident. Various paper work was miss placed and question went unanswered. He would often put his personal 2cents in on our needs and decisions that my family would and should make. When it came time for the service, my father’s appearance was unsatisfactory and it was hard to even recognize him, because of the appalling make-​up job that was done on him by his team. The pain in my heart and the steam coming from my head was overwhelming. Dr. Julian McClendon and his team let my family and I down tremendously. The kicker of this horrific situation is, how long it has taken him to hand over my father’s remains, which as been cremated. My father funeral services were on Dec. 14, 2012 and it is now Jan. 18, 2013 and I still have not received my father’s remains from him. I have called his phone several times and left numerous messages for him, but still no urn fills with my father’s ashes. I have also spoke with him several times and still there has been so many broken promises. He tells me he is «unable to located the remains.» This is my father he has so called «lost.» I am hurt to the core and this man Dr. Julian McClendon is responsible. Please don’t let him do this to you and your family! I am still in the works of figuring out what to do. The stress and the heart-​ache is overwhelming. All I want is my Father’s remains. He has been paid for the services… why haven’t my family gotten their loved one’s ashes? This business is a joke! Never ever use their services… I am sure you will regret it.

My family and I just recently had my husbands funeral service done with Sunset and the service was excellent. The funeral director was great; he was very cordial and had a great aura about him, made me feel comfort in the time of greif. Julian let me do the obituary/​funeral program exactly how I imagined it to be with a limited amount of fiances. Iam forever greatful for it. The service of funeral was beautiful everyone was professional and compassionate. I would really just want to thank the staff at Sunset for the wonderful work and effort the staff has shown me, Iam truly more than satisfied. Special thanks to Julian for the emotional support after the funeral. He really tried to comfort me through this all. He really understood my pain as a young widow.

I can believe there’s a casket outlet. There’s an outlet for everything these days. I’ve never been to the Sunset Casket Outlet either, but I used to live around the corner from it. I loved walking past this place. I would stop and stare. I always wanted to go in there, but it seemed disrespectful. They had the most amazing casket on display for a while. An casket airbrushed with Biggie, Tupac, Bob Marley, and Marvin Gaye. It was wonderful. It was breathtaking. It was simply beautiful. One of the things I miss most about living in Oakland is walking past the Sunset Casket Outlet.