42 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Delaware, 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.
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42 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Delaware
Bridgeville chapel of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, founded in 1895 as the Hardesty Chapel and part of the Parsell firm since 2001. Renovated in 2010 with new sound and video systems, it serves Bridgeville, Seaford, Greenwood, Ellendale and Georgetown.
Delaware City funeral home of Spicer-Mullikin, a family-owned firm tracing to 1906 that has kept a Delaware City location for many years. Holds a green burial certification from 2012 and offers green burial plans with formaldehyde-free care and handmade seagrass caskets.
Delmar funeral home with its own on-site crematory, the successor to the Marvel Funeral Home, whose founder became the town's first undertaker in 1865. Its casket and vault display fills an adjoining pre-1865 building that was once a pharmacy.
Dover funeral home, the main location of Bennie Smith Funeral Home's five Delaware locations, serving Kent County and central Delaware. Its staff includes licensed funeral directors, embalmers and certified crematory operators, with a designated pre-need team.
Downtown Dover funeral home of the Torbert family, serving from this site since 1919, with a chapel added in 1955 that seats about 120. Four generations of the family have run the firm, which founded its own Capitol Crematory Service in 1989.
South Dover branch chapel of the Torbert family firm, opened in November 1999, seating 250 with a large on-site parking lot. The family has served Dover since 1918 and founded its own Capitol Crematory Service in 1989.
Georgetown chapel of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium in a mansion from the early 1900s furnished in Victorian style, acquired by the firm in 1988. Its chapel seats 120, services are streamed online, and it serves Georgetown and Millsboro.
Greenwood funeral home of Framptom Funeral Home, a firm established in 1864, at the Fleischauer Chapel of the Fleischauer Funeral Home it partnered with in 2019. The 4,500-square-foot building has a 160-seat chapel, and the firm runs its own crematory in Cambridge, Maryland.
Hockessin home of the Chandler family firm founded in 1892, opened in 1978 as New Castle County's first crematory owned by a family funeral home. A floor-to-ceiling glass window lights its chapel, and certified celebrants on staff lead memorial services for families with no church or clergy.
Lewes chapel of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, the firm founded in 1895 as the Atkins Funeral Home, in its present building since 1995 with the firm's crematory on site. Families may witness the cremation, and the chapel serves Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach and Milton.
Middletown funeral home of Spicer-Mullikin with a newly constructed chapel, one of four New Castle County locations of a family-owned firm tracing to 1906. Arranges aerial scattering of ashes over the ocean or coastline through Cremation Air and has a professional grief specialist on staff.
Milford funeral home of Bennie Smith Funeral Home's five Delaware locations, near the Kent and Sussex county line and serving families from both counties and across central and southern Delaware. Its staff includes licensed funeral directors, embalmers and certified crematory operators, with a designated pre-need team.
Milford funeral home founded in 1955 in the historic Grier House, with its own crematory and a casket and urn showroom. It serves families across Kent and Sussex counties, files VA, Social Security and insurance claims for them, and has a notary public on hand.
Millsboro funeral home of Bennie Smith Funeral Home's five Delaware locations, serving families throughout Sussex County and southern Delaware. Its staff includes licensed funeral directors, embalmers and certified crematory operators, with a designated pre-need team.
Millsboro funeral home and crematorium of the Watson family, whose undertaking business began in the 1830s in Centerville (now Roxana) and is run by its sixth generation. It has a company-owned crematory and a chapel that seats over 130.
New Castle home of a family-owned firm founded in 1917 and now led by the fourth generation of the family, which bought its first New Castle property in 1928. It raises funds for non-profit children's organizations through the Matthews Children's Foundation and runs a second home in Wilmington.
New Castle funeral home of Spicer-Mullikin, a family-owned firm tracing to 1906 with four locations in the county. Keeps a horse-drawn hearse built in the 1840s and restored in 1987, and arranges out-of-state services as a TSA-registered known shipper licensed in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Newark funeral home with its own private crematory, where family and friends may be present for the cremation. Serves Bear, Glasgow, Christiana, Delaware City, Kirkwood and other New Castle County communities.
Newark funeral home with an on-site crematory, opened in April 1997 by the Strano and Feeley families. Its chapel seats over 150, with overflow seating and live streaming, the crematory beside the chapel lets a family witness the cremation, and its S & F Monuments division creates granite and bronze memorials.
Newark funeral home in a Victorian-era building that carries a Delaware historic marker, in the historic downtown with ample parking. Its firm, serving families since 1903, runs three more homes in Cecil County, Maryland, its own crematory, a reception center in Rising Sun and a monument company.
