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Harmony is celebrating life through a distinctive funeral arrangement - this is the mission of the Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home.

Harmony is defined as "an interweaving of different accounts into a single narrative." At Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, harmony is achieved by the honoring and celebration of a life through distinctive funeral arrangements.

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Roger Vander Plaat, Funeral Director, continues his family tradition of four generations of funeral service in Bergen County, NJ, as well as continuing the five generations of the Lazear and Smith families in Warwick, in offering only the best in funeral service.

Upcoming Services

Jose Diaz Velez Visitation will be on Friday, February 21, 2020 from 2: 00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY. A Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 22 at St. Stephen the First Martyr, 75 Sanfordville Road, Warwick.

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Visitation will be on Saturday, February 22, 2020 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY.

Margaret "Rita" Fenton Visitation will be on Saturday, February 22, 2020 from 7 to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 23, 2020 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, February 24, 2020 at St. Stephen the First Martyr Church, 75 Sanfordville Road, Warwick

Emilio Prado Visitation will be on Monday, February 24, 2020 from 2 to 4:00 p.m. and 7 to 9:00 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY. A Traditional Roman Catholic Requiem Mass will be on Tuesday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow the service in St. Stephen’s Cemetery, Route 17A, Warwick.

Robert A. Schaper Visitation will be on Monday, February 24 from 6 to 8:00 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church, 5 Wisner Road, Warwick. A Funeral Service will be on Tuesday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the church. Burial will follow the service in Orange County Veterans Cemetery, 111 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY.

Lawrence "Larry" Wieber A Memorial Mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Mt. Alverno Chapel, Grand Street, Warwick, NY on Thursday, February 27.