Design Services for the Death Care Industry - JST Architects

Biggers Funeral Home, a second generation firm located in Lake Worth, Texas, north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, had been in their original location for many years until urban growth and highway expansion created operational problems for the original...

The Bob Hope Memorial was a unique project to design a private family burial garden on less than an acre of cemetery property in the historic San Fernando Mission Cemetery.  The memorial is an outdoor garden of natural and man-made beauty.
Highlights of this garden are the “Our Lady of Hope” Fountain, The Bob Hope Memorial Wall (recognizing his life’s works in bronze bas-relief panels) and the Crypt Grotto, which is the final resting place for Bob and inventory for family and friends....

This project consisted of a 3 story mausoleum addition to the existing Historic Chapel of the Chimes Mausoleum – Oakland, CA. designed by Julia Morgan (famous turn of the century California architect).
This project was very challenging and required cutting into the hillside and shoring the excavation in order to add the expansion.  Future additions are planned after this project.  A funeral home was constructed in front of this building and connects...

This funeral home facility was completed in 2008.  The owner, Craig Kempf, had been in a beautiful older facility in downtown Marshall for many years when the neighboring hospital made him an offer for his property that he couldn’t refuse.  So he purchased...