Welcoming Pensacola funeral home

Upon entering our contemporary red-brick facility on Highway 90, you are met with an open, bright and welcoming environment. In 2016, our funeral home underwent an extensive remodel during which we updated nearly all aspects of the building. From fresh paint to plush furniture, new flooring and artwork, an abundance of natural light, beautiful barn doors and more, Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel offers a modern and comfortable space in which to reflect and remember.

Featuring chair seating for approximately 120 guests, our chapel is flexible and spacious. Whether you wish to arrange a traditional chapel setting or a more unique service with table rounds, we can configure the room to best suit your needs. Our chapel also includes a full audio-visual system, three flat screens for personalized digital displays or slideshows, an electric piano and an entire wall of windows.

Should you wish to host a reception for family and guests either before or after the service, our celebration of life room provides the perfect space to gather. From coffee and tea to wine and cheese and even lunch or dinner, we are happy to arrange catering on your behalf.

Personalized services and memorials

At Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel, we understand that losing a loved one is an emotional and difficult experience and are committed to providing compassionate care and professional and personal service. Our funeral home associates take great pride in serving the community in which we live, treating each family as our own. Our team also includes Spanish-speaking staff as well as a life story coordinator.

We recognize that each life and each family is different, so we focus on personalizing every service. Meeting with you one on one in the comfort of your home, our life story coordinator takes the time and care to learn about the special, distinctive aspects of your loved one. This includes gathering unique mementos of your choosing to display at the service.

Whether you want a cremation with a toast and a scattering in the Gulf of Mexico, a full traditional funeral service with a cemetery burial and a catered reception, or a creative outdoor celebration complete with favorite food and drinks and funeral favors, we take care of the details. Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel is here to help you and your family celebrate life.

From scrapbooking to sailboats, guitars to golf balls, a shrimp boil to a beach luau, we take the things that mattered to someone and string them together to create a singular, heartfelt memorial.

Cremation services

Not everyone knows that there are many cremation options. If you are interested in cremation, the funeral home team can explain the process and different options. From a direct cremation without a memorial service or a witness cremation to a full funeral service before or after the cremation and more, we help you understand this increasingly common choice—and handle all of the cremation arrangements.

Planning ahead

At Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel, we also recognize that funeral arrangements and associated expenses can be overwhelming. In addition to assisting during your immediate time of need, our funeral directors specialize in working with families to plan final arrangements in advance. By preparing these details ahead of time, you provide a sense of relief and comfort to your loved ones while ensuring your wishes are met. We are here to discuss your funeral, cremation and cemetery options should you wish to do so in advance.

Bayview Memorial Park cemetery

Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel is situated on the grounds of Bayview Memorial Park Cemetery, a sweeping 57-acre perpetual care cemetery. We take pride in every aspect of our cemetery grounds and work hard to ensure it always provides a tranquil and serene place where families can gather, pay respects, remember and find peace with the passing of a loved one.

With mature trees, seasonal flowers and lush landscaping, the cemetery offers a range of burial options, including traditional in-ground burial with upright monuments and flat markers, hedged family estates, above-ground entombment in the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum and among the few cremation gardens within 150 miles of Pensacola. Our cemetery also features a tranquil three-tiered water feature in the cremation garden. Our cemetery also features a tranquil three-tiered water feature in the cremation garden.

Please contact Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel and Bayview Memorial Park if you need help right away or would like more information about our services.

History

Fisher-Pou Funeral Home was established in Pensacola in 1868 by Felix Bonifay, which dates our funeral home back as the oldest continuously running funeral home in the state of Florida.

In 1987, 101 years after it opened, Fisher-Pou built a satellite chapel on the grounds of Bayview Memorial Park. Ten years later, the funeral home itself relocated to Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel and has remained there since the late 1990s.

Bayview Memorial Park was established in 1947 with only 6,000 burial spaces available at the time. Dora McAlister was the first interment, which occurred on July 2, 1947. Today, Bayview Memorial Park has more than 22,000 loved ones in its care.

Today, both the funeral home and cemetery are members of the Dignity Memorial® network, giving you the warm, familiar attention you expect from a locally operated funeral home and cemetery and the value you deserve.