Families in Gainesville, Alachua, Newberry and High Springs call Legacy for local transport throughout Alachua County and the return of a loved one home, wherever home is.
Gainesville is a university and teaching-hospital city, so a death in Alachua County often involves a family who lives somewhere else entirely, sometimes another country. We arrange everything by phone and email and ship from Gainesville or Jacksonville, whichever gets your loved one home sooner.
Families we serve from Alachua County most often ask about India, China and Nigeria. Whichever the destination, consular requirements are confirmed before a flight is booked, and the shipment departs Gainesville Regional (GNV).
The three services we provide statewide, as they apply in Alachua County. Every price is confirmed in writing before anything is authorized.
Starting at $5,995
Consular legalization, preparation, a sealing casket and airline booking, departing Gainesville Regional (GNV) for the destination country.
Starting at $1,990
Removal in Alachua County, burial transit permits, and air or dedicated ground transport to the funeral home you choose.
We work in your name on the removal, the permits and the consular file, and return the file complete. Your name stays on the arrangement.
Under hospice care: call your hospice nurse first, then call us, and tell the nurse your loved one is entrusted to Legacy. We coordinate directly with the hospices serving Alachua County.
Not under hospice care: call 911 before calling us. Once officials give their release, we take your loved one into our care.
At a hospital or nursing facility: call us and name Legacy as your funeral establishment. The facility handles the rest with us directly.
Yes. Alachua County is inside our regular Florida service area, including Gainesville, Alachua, Newberry and High Springs. Transport is dispatched to the place of death anywhere in the county, and the phone is answered 24 hours a day at (239) 207-0390.
No. Authorizations are signed electronically and every arrangement can be made by telephone and email, whichever state or country you are calling from. Most of the families we serve in Alachua County are calling from somewhere else entirely.
For Alachua County we normally depart Gainesville Regional (GNV). If another Florida airport gets your loved one home sooner or at lower cost, we will tell you and use that one instead.
Most shipments leaving Alachua County depart within three to seven days of the first call. The variable is the destination consulate and how quickly the county issues the death certificate, not the flight itself.
Shipping to another state starts at $1,990, and international shipping at $5,995 with the sealing casket included. Airfare is separate and billed at cost with no mark-up. Families in Gainesville and across Alachua County receive a written price before anything is authorized, and nothing is added afterward.
A member of our staff, not an answering service. Whether you are calling from Gainesville or from another country, a licensed funeral director picks up. Deaths do not keep business hours and neither do we.
A licensed funeral director will call you back. For an immediate need, calling is faster and someone will answer.
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