Lotus Funeral Service

Let me start by sharing that two different families referred me to Nina, the owner at Lotus.

If you haven’t pre-planned or are exploring end-of-life services, I highly recommend visiting her office in person. Walking in feels more like entering a warm, welcoming living room than a traditional facility.

This is a full-service memorial and cremation center that guides families every step of the way—from pre-planning to memorial services to burial or cremation. They also offer a private, intimate consultation room for meaningful conversations with loved ones.

Their fees are among the lowest in Flagler County, largely because they avoid unnecessary add-on costs.

Post service, they also have custom memorial keepsakes that can be fashioned to commemorate the life of loved ones.

What stood out most is how much Nina genuinely cares. From the moment I arrived, she offered water or coffee—served in real ceramic mugs. It’s the small, thoughtful touches that make a big difference and reflect a people-first approach.

Despite her busy schedule, Nina was generous with her time. She thoroughly answered my questions, especially around transport services for families who travel frequently—insight I wouldn’t have thought to ask about.

Before I left, she provided a helpful checklist to ensure my family won’t have to navigate probate or guess my wishes. She also shared resources from other local organizations offering services like home care and meal prep. It’s clear she supports and promotes other businesses that prioritize people over profit.

At no point did I feel like I was being sold to—it felt like a genuine conversation with someone who truly wants to help.

As a professional, I value connecting with like-minded individuals who go the extra mile. Nina clearly shares that same mindset when it comes to serving families.

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-Krissi Faith




Lotus Funeral Service’s congenial founder, Nina, and the congenial and courteous staff all exuded sincere desires to help my father and me after my mother (my father’s wife) had passed away, recently, as of the time at which I am writing these remarks.

On several occasions my father and I both spoke together to Lotus’s founder, plus to at least three other staff inside the Lotus facility, as well as with Lotus staff on more than one phone call that my father made from home. These talks had included conversations in at least two meetings in one of Lotus’s offices, as well as in the Lotus facility’s lobby area.

For our regular meetings themselves and for all other talks with Lotus staff and with the founder there had never been any sense that we must hurry or any sense that we could not take our time in asking as many questions as had occurred to us.

One of the staff (officially, I believe she is a funeral director) even volunteered to take a photo of my deceased mother’s driver’s license picture and to photo-shop it for us. That is, she did that for us before we ourselves then took the picture’s photo-shopped version to a CVS store to print real photos created from the picture.

The staff-woman who photo-shopped my mother’s driver’s license picture had truly offered to do that free favor for us voluntarily and on her own initiative when my father showed her my mother’s picture on my mother’s driver’s license (neither of us had suggested at all the idea that we could convert my mother’s driver’s license picture into a separate photo-shopped picture that would be stripped of all of the other details printed on her license; that had never occurred to either of us). This favor which the Lotus staff-woman did for us is especially significant and endearing because at that time we had not known where other, traditional, photographs of my mother might have been stored, and so we had had no other photographs available for my father to get copied and which he could frame in tribute to his now-deceased wife and could also share with surviving relatives.

Generally, I would emphasize, again, finally, that both Nina and the Lotus staff are indeed sincere, congenial, friendly, and professionally courteous. My father also, of course, agrees that their service to us had been “excellent” service.

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-Jeff LaPointe