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ST. CLOUD,MN—
Mill-
er Architects & Builders
has broke ground on the
new
Lawn Funeral Home
in Tinley Park, IL and
An-
derson Memorial Chapel’s
newest location in Crest
Hill, IL.
Lawn Funeral Home was
established in 1962, and
is owned and operated by
founding owner
Donald
Jarka Sr.
and his sons
Don
Jr.
and
Dan Jarka
. Lawn Fu-
neral Home has been a fix-
ture in the Burbank, IL com-
munity for the past 50 years,
and the past 25 years in Or-
land Park, IL. To further
grow and expand their busi-
ness, Lawn Funeral Home is
opening a new funeral home
in Tinley Park, IL.
Lawn’s new two-sto-
ry, 16,382 square foot fu-
neral home is designed in
“Prairie School” architec-
ture with an abundance
of stone, woodwork, and
glass. The first floor features
13,797 square feet, and the
second floor contains 2,585
Miller Architects & Builders Start Construction at
Two Illinois Locations
Anderson Funeral Home Rendering
Lawn Funeral Home Rendering
(L to R) Randy Mezger, Project Manager at Miller Architects &
Builders; Dan Jarka, Owner of Lawn Funeral Home and Dave
TeBrake, Executive Vice President of Miller Architecs & Builders
(L to R) Ken Carroll, Planning Commissioner City of Crest Hill, IL; John Tomasoski, City Administrator,
City of Crest Hill, IL; Dave TeBrake, Executive Vice President, Miller Architects & Builders; Steve
Kuczkowski, Building Commissioner, City of Crest Hill, IL; Tom Inman, Alderman-City of Crest Hill, IL;
Brent Cann, Superintendent of Streets, City of Crest Hill, IL; Ray Soliman, Mayor, City of Crest Hill, IL;
Richard Anderson, Owner, Anderson Memorial Chapel; Nelson Anderson, Anderson Memorial Chapel;
Kent Anderson, Anderson Memorial Chapel; Dan Coffey, First Midwest Bank, Joliet, IL; Rev. Greg
Podwysocki, St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Plainfield, IL; Charles Convery, Alderman-City of Crest Hill, IL
There are two family loung-
es, a merchandising display
room, work and business
office with reception desk.
The new funeral home sits
on a 2.76-acre site with 95
parking stalls and has room
for future expansion. Com-
pletion is scheduled for the
summer of 2013.
Anderson Memorial Cha-
pel, a family owned and lo-
cally operated business that
has served families in the
Romeoville area for the last
20 plus years, is opening a
new location in Crest Hill,
IL. It will be the first fu-
neral home in this growing
Chicago suburb. Ander-
son Memorial Chapel Inc.
was founded in 1987 and
acquired by the Anderson
family in 1991. In 1999,
Heartland Cremation Ser-
vices
was established, and
an on-site crematory was
installed. Brothers’
Richard
and
Kent Anderson
have
over 57 combined years of
funeral service experience.
The new 9,995 square-
foot, one-story facility will
sit on a 2.5 acre site and is
designed in cottage style ar-
chitecture with stone, stuc-
co, and vertical board and
batten siding. The exterior
also features two drive-un-
der canopies and decorative
window boxes.
Families are welcomed into
the funeral home by a spa-
cious lobby with fireplace
and coffered ceiling, a large
dividable lounge/banquet
room with two kitchenettes,
a children’s area and private
outdoor patio, an arrange-
ment room suite, three offic-
es; reception, work, business,
and a beautiful 200-seat di-
vidable chapel.
Miller Architects &
Builders is extremely proud
to have the opportunity to
team with the Jarka and
Anderson families on these
exciting projects from ar-
chitectural services through
construction.
Established in 1874, Mill-
er Architects & Builders is
one of the Midwest’s pre-
mier design/build commer-
cial construction firms spe-
cializing in funeral homes.
Miller Architects & Build-
ers constructs all its facili-
ties using your local labor.
Miller Architects & Build-
ers is headquartered in St.
Cloud, MN. For more in-
formation, visit www.
square feet of residential liv-
ing space. The focal point
of the funeral home lobby
is a beautiful stone fireplace
and twenty foot ceilings
with clerestory windows.
Visitations can be held in
one of two chapels that
seat over 200 in each cha-
pel, and are also dividable
for additional visitations.