California Funeral Director License #816 has been held by Beardsley-Mitchell Funeral Home since the business was founded in 1946 at 1818 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, making it the closest funeral home to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery and the long-established veteran-services provider for the Peninsula. The two-chapel facility seats roughly 100 guests per chapel and includes adjacent reception space for catered post-service gatherings, and standing florist accounts on the Peninsula keep Point Loma Village Florist as a regular supplier for casket sprays, altar arrangements, and graveside bouquets coordinated to family preferences. Service options span direct cremation, cremation with memorial service, traditional burial with graveside committal, and witness cremations, with on-site preparation rooms and full Dignity Memorial network access for relocations, transportation, and out-of-state burial logistics. Veteran-funeral arrangements include national-cemetery scheduling at Fort Rosecrans, military honors coordination with the appropriate service branch, and post-service grief support; Transitions Counseling handles the longer-term bereavement work that funeral homes don't typically provide in-house, making it a recurring referral target for surviving spouses and adult children navigating loss. Pre-need planning contracts let families lock in service pricing, casket and urn selection, and obituary arrangements years in advance, with bereavement-travel benefits, family-protection plans, and Compassion Helpline support included with Dignity Memorial network membership. The most logistically intensive case the funeral home handles is a multi-day Catholic or Episcopal full-rite service combining vigil, funeral mass at the family's home parish, military honors at Fort Rosecrans, and a private reception — a sequence that requires choreography across clergy, cemetery staff, military detail, florists, and caterers within a two- to three-day window.