Vistoso Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 2285 E. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., Oro Valley, 544-2285. www.vistosomemorialchapel.com
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with availability 24 hours a day.
Owners: Doug and Vicky Harpold, Bev Harpold and Ray Wagner.
Years in business: One-and-a-half.
Q: How would you describe this business?
A: Vistoso Memorial Chapel is a full-service funeral home that is locally and family owned, specializing in custom memorial and funeral services. We offer state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment to help memorialize your loved one. We provide Web-casting of any service so family or friends who are not able to attend the service can still watch and be part of it. We work with families to design specialized services including golf scenes, hunting scenes, cowboy scenes or whatever the family needs to make the service unique to their loved one. Families may choose to have the ashes of the departed made into a diamond or blown into glass.
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Q: What makes your business tick?
A: We strive to make every memorial service a beautiful tribute handled with care and compassion.
Q: What other jobs have you had?
A: Respiratory therapist, carpet cleaner and installer, law firm file clerk, factory assembly worker, dishwasher, bus boy, waiter.
Q: What led you to this business?
A: I worked as a health-care provider for many years and had been with many patients and their families when the patients passed away.
This led to a deeper compassion for those who had lost a loved one, and I felt I had a lot to offer families who have experienced such a loss.
Q: Where will your company be a year from now?
A: We plan to be the leader in funeral and memorial services in northwest Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana and Pinal County.
