A home funeral can be as inexpensive as the cost of pine for a coffin (for a backyard burial) or a few hundred dollars for cremation or several hundred dollars for cemetery costs. One family spent only $250 on a home burial.
Aaron Josef Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut, the son of Dennis Hernandez, of Puerto Rican descent; and Terri Valentine-Hernandez, of Italian descent. He had a brother Dennis, Jr., known as D.J. Their father Dennis died in January 2006 from complications from hernia surgery, when Aaron Hernandez was 16.
Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez. BRISTOL, Conn. â When Aaron Hernandez was a child in this faded factory town, his mother, Terri, twice turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection. When he was in sixth grade, she began taking bets for an illegal gambling organization. Police would later seize reams of evidence from the home.