Our Story: Professional Grave Care Experts
How Tending Began
We are the Manilov brothers, the founders of All Funeral Services. For many years, we have been working to build technology that simplifies cemetery operations, helping them organize burial records and map plots.
But Tending, the professional grave care service, didn’t start with software. It started with a question we kept hearing from families and staff:
"We live far away — can someone check on the monument and send us a picture, or make sure it's cleaned properly?"
We heard it from staff. We heard it from managers. We heard it from families themselves. The need for reliable, professional, and documented memorial maintenance was impossible to ignore.
Care Families Couldn’t Find Anywhere Else
In today’s world, families are spread across cities, states, and even countries. Travel isn’t always possible. Age, health, finances, and time constraints all play a role in limiting visits.
The need for reliable, documented care doesn't go away.
For a long time, cemetery maintenance was treated as a family responsibility or personal favor, or left to inconsistent, high-priced contractors:
- Maybe a relative would “stop by when they can.”
- Until now, this work was handled informally: by a relative when they could get there, or by a contractor with no fixed standard or price.
There was no clear, reliable, respectful way to request professional grave cleaning and maintenance — especially from a distance, or when the work needs to be done to a consistent standard.
We realized there was a real, unspoken need: a reliable, professional way to care for a memorial for families who live far from the cemetery, or who need the work done to a consistent standard.
From Industry Experience to a Human-Centered Service
We took our background in cemetery technology and professional service and turned it into something new: a professional grave care service designed specifically for the needs of modern, dispersed, or busy families.
We built Tending to offer:
- Simple online sign-up and scheduling.
- Clear pricing and customizable grave care subscriptions.
- Trained, insured specialists who visit the grave in person.
- Gentle headstone cleaning and light maintenance using approved methods.
- Time-stamped before-and-after photo reports for total transparency.
- An affordable, trusted alternative to expensive cemetery contractors.
Tending is where technology, compassion, and professional craftsmanship meet — so that honoring someone’s memory doesn’t depend on where you live or your physical ability.
Where We’re Going
Our goal is to make dignified, affordable, and documented grave care accessible across the United States, so that a resting place can be cared for wherever the family lives.
We can’t change the past. But we can help you care for the place where it is remembered with professional attention and care.