Markers A bronze niche marker will be furnished for each inurnment without cost. The rank, name, date of birth, and date of death along with the class year is inscribed on the marker. There are no cemetery charges at the West Point Cemetery. A standard headstone is provided as well. However, burials of any type, including those at West Point, are expensive due to the other necessary arrangements that are covered in this article.
Costs vary significantly from funeral home to funeral home.
It is the family s responsibility to make initial arrangements with their local funeral home. The funeral director will assist the family in choosing and in making arrangements with a funeral home in the West Point vicinity. If services are held in the chapel prior to being inurned in the columbarium, the gravesite committal service is held to the left of the chapel at the Margaret Corbin site. Services are not held in the columbarium. In addition to funeral honors for military members, representatives from the Association of Graduates and from the Superintendent s office attend the service.