Since 1896.
Honor your loved ones by celebrating their wonderful lives.
LaBrake Memorials
LaBrake Memorials is a full-service, family-owned business offering new headstones and memorials as well as cemetery engraving, restorations, cleaning, and repairs.
Our Services
Honoring Life
LaBrake Memorials is a full-service shop that offers the expert guidance you'll need to make an informed monument purchase as well as offering quality products and services to ensure that your investment endures the test of time.
From cemetery lettering should a family monument require additional names and dates to professional cleaning to maintain your monument's intended appearance, LaBrake Memorials' commitment to quality continues well beyond the initial purchase. Click on the links below for information on the many products and services we offer.
Explore All Services
We offer many complimentary products for your loved ones' memorial stone, including:
- Memorial Portraits - Color or B&W in many sizes that are unconditionally guaranteed.
- Aluminum Military Flag Holders - With bright colored emblems.
- Aluminum Wreath Holders - Will not rust or scratch granite surfaces.
- Metalcraft Vases for Flowers - Colors to match your chosen granite.
About us
Let our family help yours.
Since 1896, generations of craftsmen at LaBrake Memorials have been assisting the residents of Saratoga Springs and the Greater Capital Region community in choosing the headstones and monuments that will honor their family members in perpetuity.
LaBrake Memorials is a full-service, family-owned business offering new headstones and memorials as well as cemetery engraving, restorations, cleaning, and repairs. We offer pet memorials as well.
Whether a client is pre-planning a burial or making arrangements after the passing of a beloved family member, the process of choosing a headstone, marker, or monument is one of deep emotion.
Our professional and experienced staff knows that the purchase of a gravestone should be a thoughtful one that deserves the utmost attention and consideration in a relaxed, unrushed environment. We offer personalized guidance in selecting memorial stones with careful attention to detail and the sensitivity that the process deserves.
Our staff is highly knowledgeable in every aspect of headstone or monument selection. With more sizes, shapes, and materials available than ever before, the process could seem overwhelming. However, with over a century of experience and expertise, LaBrake Memorials helps clients create beautiful, customized headstones that pay tribute to their loved ones. Our clients are never asked to just choose from a showroom display or to flip through books of stock memorials. Instead, our staff expertly guides families in making informed decisions about the stone color, symbols, emblems, and other design elements that best honor the lives of the family members whose graves they mark. Our staff has an in-depth knowledge of local cemetery regulations and requirements as well.
Whether a client is seeking a time-honored, traditional gravestone that complements a family plot or a unique, one-of-a-kind contemporary headstone with custom lettering, our staff makes the process as smooth as possible, working within a client’s budget. All memorial stones can be custom designed at no additional charge.
The expert craftsmen at LaBrake know how to take a client’s design ideas from paper to finished product. They carve, etch, and engrave the headstones and memorials right at our Saratoga Springs location with the highest quality materials. Work is all done by skilled and experienced LaBrake craftsmen and never subcontracted.
In addition, LaBrake Memorials has distinguished itself in the field. Our work includes the Saratoga County War Memorial at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Veteran Cemetery in Saratoga. It lists the names of all the county’s veterans who died from the Revolutionary War through the present. LaBrake also crafted Gerald Solomon’s personal memorial stone at the cemetery, a three-sided obelisk dedicated to his personal life, his country, and veterans. Numerous towns and fire departments throughout the Capital Region have chosen LaBrake to create memorials for their town halls, parks, and fire stations.
Whatever your needs, our staff is here to serve with compassion and a commitment to quality.
Happy Clients
We’re proud to have earned glowing reviews from clients who love the quality and care we bring to every cleaning. Our reviews reflect the trust and confidence our clients place in us
Gayle H.
Labrake Memorials did a beautiful stone for my mother-in-law. They were very easy to work with and kept us informed of the process along the way. I got electronic images before they carved the stone and photos when it was completed before they set it at the cemetery. I highly recommend them.
Wendy D.
We live in Florida and lost our beautiful Daughter Brooke, we wanted to make a memorial stone to place next to her grandparents in NY. We called and spoke to Tim and he was compassionate and professional as we went over a special design that we wanted to honor Brooke. He and his team went above and beyond to make it happen with constant communication through emails with pictures of progress. The hand carving that was done was exactly what we asked for and then some. As hard as this was to have a memorial stone created for our daughter, we are very pleased.
Gayle H.
I ordered a memorial stone for my mom recently and because I live in a different state I thought it would be difficult. But Tim Cahrenger made the process simple. He has been so helpful and professional. He’s kept in touch with me via email every step of the way including pictures. I can definitely recommend LaBrake Memorial to anyone.