74 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Iowa, listed by city and county. Each listing names the services the home offers, the faiths it serves and the languages its staff speak, with its address, its phone and a link to its general price list where it posts one.
Licence rows come from the Iowa Board of Mortuary Science, Department of Inspections, Appeals, & Licensing (DIAL); what a home offers comes from its own site. SimplyTrust lists no prices, no reviews and no rankings, and does not endorse any home. Contact a home directly for its general price list, which the Funeral Rule requires it to provide.
74 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Iowa
Des Moines funeral home built in 1987 by the family-owned Hamilton's, with the firm's crematory in the building, where families may be present for all or part of a cremation. A Family Services Center on the lower level hosts gatherings and meals before or after a service.
Family-owned Des Moines funeral home providing cremation across all 99 Iowa counties. Ceremonies are held in its chapel or a place of worship, Monday through Saturday, with visitation the same day or the evening before, and arrangements can be started online.
East Des Moines funeral home opened in 1970 and family owned and operated again since 1988 as part of Iles Funeral Homes. The chapel seats up to 200, a lower-level reception room for about 65 guests has a full kitchen, and services can be live streamed and recorded with video tributes. Collects worn American flags for a formal retirement ceremony.
Locally owned Des Moines funeral home with its own crematory and mausoleum, beside the Chapel Hill Gardens cemetery. Its chapel seats 175 and hosts luncheons after services and farewell receptions with wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres.
South side Des Moines funeral home of the family-owned Hamilton's, which bought it in 1979 and remodeled and enlarged it in 2022, with a community reception room and space for visitations, funerals and memorial services.
Des Moines funeral home with a chapel built in 2021 at the forty-acre Sunset Memorial Gardens cemetery, locally owned since 2020, so visitations, services, luncheons and graveside burials can be held on one site. The cemetery offers ground burial, niches, mausoleum space and memorial trees.
Des Moines chapel of the family-owned Iles Funeral Homes, its first, established in 1960, with two chapels (the main one seats 180 to 200), a reception room for sit-down meals of up to 60, private family rooms and a children's play area. Services can be live streamed and recorded.
Dubuque funeral home with an on-site crematory, a chapel for public and private visitations and funeral services, a fireplace room and a coffee bar. Hosts the Farewell Toast visitation, with wine, beer and catering served by staff, and arranges green funerals at Casper Creek Natural Cemetery outside Galena, Illinois.
Durant funeral home serving the tri-county area since 1993, one of two Bentley Funeral Home locations with Wilton, under its current owners since 2021. Its locations are handicapped accessible.
Eagle Grove funeral home whose history in the town runs to 1902, since 2019 in a former church building with a chapel, visitation room, kids room and kitchen. It keeps a second chapel in Goldfield, handles body donations, and offers families who are not church members a place for services.
Earlham chapel of a family-owned funeral firm whose own crematory, opened in 2014, stands at its Stuart home, where families may watch the cremation through a viewing window. Arranges air and overseas transfers and home funerals.
Earlville funeral home established in the 1860s and owned by the Murdoch family since 2004, one of six locations of the family-owned Murdoch Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, which has a crematory at Marion and owns Linwood Cemetery in Cedar Rapids.
Family-owned Elma funeral home, one of five locations of a Northeast Iowa firm established in 1923, with cremation at the firm's own crematory in New Hampton. Serves Howard County and the Minnesota border towns of Le Roy and Harmony, with a funeral director available 24 hours a day.
Family-owned Fredericksburg funeral home, one of five locations of a Northeast Iowa firm established in 1923, with cremation at the firm's own crematory in New Hampton. Serves southern Chickasaw County and the Bremer County edge near Sumner, with a funeral director available 24 hours a day.
Hospers chapel of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Vander Ploeg Funeral Home here in 2001. The building, put up in 2001-02, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room and a chapel for 75. The firm brings remains home to northwest Iowa from anywhere in the United States or abroad.
Hull funeral home of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Kraai Funeral Home here in 1983. The building, constructed in 1996, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room, a children's room, a chapel seating 100 and parking for 30 vehicles.
Knoxville funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Lacona, Melcher-Dallas and Milo. Helps families apply for veterans' burial allowances, a Presidential Memorial Certificate and military headstones, and can arrange a life celebrant for a service outside a religious setting.
La Porte City funeral home with a chapel in a traditional funeral home setting, formerly La Porte City Funeral Home and part of a fourth-generation family-owned Waterloo firm since 2013.
Lacona funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Knoxville, Melcher-Dallas and Milo. Helps families apply for veterans' burial allowances, a Presidential Memorial Certificate and military headstones, and can arrange a life celebrant for a service outside a religious setting.
Madrid funeral home of the family-owned Iles Funeral Homes since 1998, in a building that looks like a traditional home, with a chapel, a coffee lounge, a wheelchair lift and services live streamed and recorded. It also serves Boone and Dallas counties and northern Polk County.
