Mission Statement


We do not substitute speed for quality, nor quality for price. Being a fourth generation family owned and operated business for 100 years in Biddeford, Maine, we treat each and every customer like our family, guiding them through the process of choosing an appropriate everlasting memorial for their loved one, whether they choose from a simple marker to the most elaborate memorial.

Family History


Wilfrid Sr. told his son, Wilfrid Jr., that he learned the trade in Massachusetts from his father, George Provost, who in turn had learned it from his father when the clan was living in Canada centuries ago. Making Wilfrid Jr. the fourth generation of stonecutters.


Front Row from left -
Marie Louise (Houle) - mother (called Mary)
Ida
Alice
George Provost - Father

Back Row from left -
Joseph - oldest son (called Joe)
Sara (called Sadie)
Wilfrid
Rose (called Rosie)
Fred (called Freddy)
Henry

Around 1888 George Provost, along with his wife, Mary Louise (Houle), started a small monument company in Springfield, Massachusetts. They later moved the family business to Augusta, Maine and ran it with two sons out of the four sons, Wilfrid and Fred.



Wilfrid and Fred went on their own. Wilfrid moved his business to Biddeford, Maine in 1915, where Wilfrid Sr's trade was manufacturing slabs like cemetery monuments, from start to finish for many years.

The Barre gray granite is blasted from Barre, Vermont, earth. It was then sawed and polished and hand cut lettering was added at his shop at Vermont Monumental Works at Five Points in Biddeford, Maine.

Current owner, Wilfrid Jr., has 41 years of experience starting work as a teenage. After graduating from Scarborough High School 1973, he attended Spalding Trade School in Barre, VT, for about year. Soon he was back working along side his father and brother-in-law, Louis “Jerry” Joncas in the grave stone industry. That is why Wilfrid Jr. takes pride in his work and pays close attention to detail to create the monument you have envisioned.

Wilfrid Jr. took over Vermont Monumental Works at Five Point 1991 when his father passed away and changed the name to Provost’s Memorials. In 2004, due to a new intersection expansion at Five Points, he had to moved the shop to the new location at 510 Elm Street in Biddeford.


In 1988 the brother-in-law, Louis “Jerry” Joncas retired from the grave stone industry.



Great gift to your family


The greatest gift a person could do for their family members is planning ahead. More and more people today are purchasing their own memorial by pre-planning before the need arises for the family.

This allows you the opportunity to customize your monument so that it reflects your preferences in shape, color, size, what your interests are, accomplishments, and beliefs in your life, whether it be traditional or cremation. Decision making in advance is easier than in a time of the families grief. Your family will have one less emotional decisions to make at such a devastating time in their lives. Also you would avoid inflation which raise on average 3 to 5 % per year.