We take care of the details so you can take care of the families.

When a grieving family turns to you and your funeral home for help, they expect you to have all of the answers. When it comes to handling funeral arrangements for those who pass away in your neighborhoods and towns, you are very familiar with the process. But what about making arrangements to return their loved one to your funeral home from far away? What about relatives who live nearby that want to arrange services for their family member who lives on the other side of the country—or the world?

NMS makes sure that you always have the answers.

It’s not every day that your funeral home has to return a body from abroad or handle the cremation of a body many miles away. National Mortuary Shipping & Cremation handles those exact scenarios each and every day. From shipping human remains right down to handling graveside funeral arrangements we can take care of every detail of an out-of-town funeral. We allow you to concentrate on what you do best—making the family feel comfortable and letting them know they made the right decision in trusting you to handle the difficult arrangements.

NMS makes the difficult look easy.

From handling flight arrangements for a body to handling livery service in another city, NMS does it all. For over 40 years we have handled mortuary shipping both domestically and internationally. But we are more than just a logistics service. We have live staff available 24/7 to ensure that no matter when an event occurs, we are here to take care of you. We are a licensed embalming facility and crematorium in the State of Ohio, so you aren’t just calling a middleman, you are speaking with the individuals who will be providing your solution.

Let us know how we can help, whether it is a scenario you are faced with immediately or an ongoing issue at your facility. National Mortuary Shipping & Cremation is focused on your solutions, so you can focus on your families!

Let NMS Focus on Your Solutions 

Angie Berwald, President and ceo

Angie joined NMS soon after it was founded and has played an integral role in building relationships with NMS representatives and clients across the globe. She is proud that NMS is always there for funeral directors as a caring extension of their team.

Kahlen M. Knapik, Vice President

Kahlen began his career at NMS in 2001 and he has held many roles within the company working in both the local trade embalming and cremation departments, the shipping department and as a member of the senior leadership team. He has been essential in building and fostering partnerships with funeral industry professionals. As a licensed funeral director and embalmer, Kahlen brings a deep understanding of the industry to the team. He takes pride in the NMS tradition of helping hometown funeral directors around the world with out-of-town deaths.

Kahlen holds a bachelor’s degree in business and graduated from Pittsburg Institute of Mortuary Science graduating summa cum laude and was awarded the Mu Sigma Alpha award. He has written numerous articles and presented CEU programs on shipping and cremation to different local, state and national funeral directors’ organizations and colleges as well as serves on the Ohio Convention Committee and on the Advisory Board for American Funeral Director Magazine.