Granite Headstones, Columbariums & Urns by Memoria Columbaria

Headstones and grave markers are the heart of the catalog: upright headstones, flat and bevel markers, ledger markers, heart, cross and shaped designs, military and religious styles, and companion monuments for two. More than 800 designs are ready to engrave.

Your cemetery decides part of this — some sections accept only flat or bevel markers while others allow full uprights — so check the rules for your section first, then pick the shape.

A niche is a sealed compartment sized for one set of ashes. Two niches suit a couple. Four suit a small family. Twelve is the largest unit we supply, and it is a multi-piece build.

Buy the count you will need rather than the count you need today. Matching a granite color and a letter style across two cuts made years apart is the request we can least often satisfy exactly.

Four colors are held in the shop: Bahama Blue, Black, Gray, Red. All four take a polish and all four hold engraving cleanly.

If you are matching a wall that already stands in a family plot, send a photo and we will tell you which of the four is closest.

When one set of ashes needs a home and the memorial does not need to grow. Every urn in the catalog is $375 with the engraving included.

Eight urn designs are in stock. Four of them carry carved detail before any lettering is added: a rose, a wave, a cross inside a recessed arch, and three doves on a dark round panel.

Names, dates, and symbols are engraved into the granite before the unit ships. Crosses, doves, roses, and line borders are the most requested.

Every inscription goes out as a proof first. A wrong date found on paper costs nothing.

Often yes. Height limits, footprint limits, foundation depth, and approved granite colors change from one ground to the next.

Send us the cemetery name and we draw the unit to those limits from the start. The site owner pulls the permit; we supply the drawings and load data they ask for.

We return a written quote and a drawing, usually in one to three work days. Custom work starts with a 3D design preview, and included revisions are stated on your quote.

After you approve it, production runs three to six months. Then it is trucked and, where local coverage is confirmed, a crew sets it, levels it, and seals the joints.

The stone, the engraving, the freight, and the site setting for our twenty California service cities. The quote lists them as separate lines.

Written warranty terms, a commercial discount schedule for eligible product components, and staged payment schedules on eligible projects come with it.

An upright headstone is the classic rectangular or serpentine-top tablet standing on a granite base. A shaped headstone is cut to a carved outline — a heart, a cross, a teardrop, an open book or an angel — before engraving.

Both use the same granite and the same sandblast engraving; the shaped outline mostly affects the cutting time and the price. If your cemetery section allows uprights, both types will pass its rules.

It depends on the section, not the city. Most cemeteries across Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco and our other California service cities have both lawn sections (flat markers only) and monument sections (uprights allowed).

Tell us the cemetery and section, and we confirm the written height, base and foundation rules before you choose a design — so nothing is finalized that the ground will not accept.

A companion headstone is one wider stone made for two people — usually spouses — with a shared or split inscription field. It replaces two single headstones on a double plot and keeps the granite, lettering and weathering identical for both names.

The catalog carries over 120 companion designs, from flat companion markers to full upright companion monuments with vases. Second inscriptions are added later at the cemetery, matched to the first.

Lawn sections almost always require a flat (flush) grave marker set level with the grass so mowers pass over it. Bevel and slant markers are accepted where the section allows a raised profile, and ledger markers need a full-grave footprint.

Send us the cemetery name and section and we confirm the accepted type, the maximum size and the foundation rule before you order.

Names, dates, epitaphs and emblems — crosses, doves, roses, praying hands, military insignia — are sandblast-engraved into the granite. Dark granite reads without color fill; on lighter stones the lettering is cut deeper for contrast.

Every inscription is approved on a printed proof before cutting, and companion grave markers carry two inscription fields on one stone.

Yes — the quote itemizes the stone, the engraving, the freight and the setting, and installation is arranged per project where local coverage is confirmed.

A flat marker still needs a proper foundation to stay level; ours are set to the cemetery specification and carry the same written warranty terms as our monuments.

Headstones and grave markers in more than 800 designs, columbarium monuments from two to twelve niches, cremation benches, upright memorials and custom designs drawn to your plot. Multi-piece monuments are cut from a single granite lot so every visible panel reads as one stone.

Custom work starts with a 3D design preview, with included revisions stated on your quote, and nothing is finalized until you approve the drawing.

We draw the monument to the cemetery’s written limits — height, footprint, foundation and approved colours — from the start, and we supply the drawings and load data the site owner needs for the permit.

We work regularly with cemeteries across Los Angeles, Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena and our other California service cities.

Installation is arranged per project where local coverage is confirmed. The crew works to the cemetery specification, pours or verifies the foundation pad, sets and levels the granite, seals the joints and cleans the site before leaving.

The monument carries the warranty terms stated in writing on the quote, and the quote itemises stone, engraving, freight and installation as separate lines.

Each niche in our family columbarium monuments accepts one or two standard cremation urns, so a compact 2-niche unit holds up to four urns and a 12-niche family estate unit holds up to twenty-four. Niche interior dimensions are listed on every product page.

If you already own urns, send us their measurements before ordering — we confirm the fit against the actual niche opening rather than a nominal size.

Yes — that is the point of a family unit. First inscriptions are engraved before delivery; later ones are added as they are needed, matched to the original lettering, and every inscription is approved on a printed proof before engraving.

Dark granites such as Indian Black Premium read clearly without color fill, which keeps later additions consistent with the first.

Usually, yes. Compact 2–4 niche family monuments stand on a standard plot footprint; larger estate units need a family plot and cemetery approval. We draw the monument to the cemetery’s written height, footprint and foundation limits from the start and supply the drawings the site owner needs.

On site the crew sets and levels the granite, and the finished monument carries the warranty terms stated in writing on the quote.

Indoors, inside a columbarium niche, or outdoors on a plot or monument base. Granite is the one urn material that needs no protection from weather, which is why cemeteries accept it for open-air placement.

If the urn is going into a niche, send us the niche opening dimensions before ordering — we confirm the fit against the exact urn size rather than guessing.

Yes. Names, dates and emblems are sandblasted into the granite before the urn ships, and every inscription is approved on a printed proof first.

Dark granite reads with no colour fill at all; on lighter stones the lettering is cut deeper so it stays legible.

We deliver throughout Los Angeles, Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena and the rest of our California service cities, and we ship smaller pieces beyond that area.

Call +1 (949) 436-7270 or email sales@memoriacolumbarium.com with the design you have in mind and the wording, and we will return a proof and a written quote.

Most vases sit on the monument base or on a foundation pad, matched to the stone of the memorial they accompany. Tell us the cemetery and the monument it will stand beside, and we confirm the mounting the ground rules allow.

Cemeteries in the Los Angeles area differ on vase rules — some require specific placements — so we check the regulations for your specific cemetery before cutting.

Usually, yes. Send a photograph of the existing stone and we will tell you which granite in the catalog is the closest match, or quote the vase in the same granite as a monument we are already cutting for you.

A border panel or inscription can be engraved on the vase itself, proofed on paper before any cutting.

Plastic vases crack and fade in one or two California summers, and bronze is a frequent theft target. A granite vase has no scrap value and no parts to break.

It is the same stone as the monument, so it weathers at the same rate and the pair still match decades later.

In many monument sections, yes — the bench itself carries the names, dates and emblem, engraved on the seat or the backrest. Cemeteries treat a bench like any monument, so the section rules on footprint and foundation still apply.

We confirm the written rules with your cemetery before cutting, exactly as we do for headstones.

Weight and the foundation. A solid granite seat on granite supports is set by our crew on a level pad, so it does not tip, rock or sink the way pre-cast concrete benches do.

Granite also needs no maintenance: it does not rust, rot or fade, and the engraving stays crisp for generations.

Yes. Several designs pair the bench with matching granite vases, and the open-book bench columbarium in the catalog builds cremation niches into the bench base — one structure for both the ashes and the visit.

Custom bench work starts with the same 3D design preview and included revisions stated on your quote as any other monument.