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Cremation Services in Madison County, Illinois

10 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Madison County, Illinois, listed by city. 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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All of Madison County10Alton2Collinsville1Godfrey2Granite City1Wood River4
All servicesBurial1Cremation10Pre-need arrangements3Veterans services1

Licence rows come from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Funeral Directors and Embalmers Unit; 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.

10 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Madison County

Cathy M. Williams & Sons Funeral Home

1695 Oakwood Road, Alton, IL 62002

Family-owned Alton funeral home opened in 1999, whose founder was the first Black woman funeral director in Madison County. Its chapel holds up to 200 guests with additional parking, and white doves can be released at a service.

Cremation

1-618-462-9155

Gent Funeral Home & Cremation Services

2409 State Street, Alton, IL 62002

Alton funeral home founded in 1935, with its own crematory on site since 2005. Its building, expanded in 2020, has chapels for funeral and memorial services, visitation areas and a family lounge, and the home also sells monuments. Serves families from Alton, Godfrey, East Alton and Wood River.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-466-5544

Herr Funeral Home and Cremation Services

501 West Main Street, Collinsville, IL 62234

Collinsville funeral home with more than a century of service to local families, part of the Memorial Planning network.

Cremation

1-618-228-0505

Elias, Kallal & Schaaf Funeral Homes, Crematory & Cemeteries, Ltd.

1313 W. Delmar Avenue, Godfrey, IL 62035

Godfrey funeral home with the firm's own crematory, opened in 1987 as the first crematory in the Metro East. Its two chapels divide with retractable walls for two visitations at once, beside a lounge and a casket room; the firm also owns Valhalla Memorial Park in Godfrey and Rose Lawn Memory Garden in Bethalto.

Cremation

1-618-466-3573

Godfrey Crematory

1313 West Delmar Avenue, Godfrey, IL 62035

Crematory of Elias, Kallal & Schaaf Funeral Homes, housed in the firm's Godfrey funeral home. It opened with the building in 1987 as the first crematory in the Metro East, so a loved one stays in the funeral home's own care.

CrematoryCremation

1-618-466-3573

Wojstrom Funeral Home & Crematory

3939 Lake Drive, Granite City, IL 62040

Funeral home with its own crematory on the premises, the only funeral home in the Granite City area with one, so the deceased never leaves its care. Its owners began serving families in 2007 after remodeling the former Werner Chapel.

Cremation

1-618-931-3939

Gray Funeral Home

205 East Lorena, Wood River, IL 62095

Wood River funeral home, family owned and operated since 1978, in a building built as a funeral home in 1926. Has a large chapel and a lounge for family and friends.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-254-9080

Marks Mortuary, Inc.

633 East Lorena Avenue, Wood River, IL 62095

Wood River funeral home in business since 1901 and at its present location since 1927, serving Riverbend families. Arranges military and national cemetery burials, public assistance burials and anatomical donation, and service, fraternal and sorority organizations may conduct special services.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-618-254-5544

Pitchford Crematory

2555 Vaughn Road, Wood River, IL 62095

Crematory of Pitchford Funeral Home in Wood River, installed on the funeral home's own premises in April 2025.

CrematoryCremation

1-618-259-6462

Pitchford Funeral Home

2555 Vaughn Road, Wood River, IL 62095

Wood River funeral home serving the Riverbend since it opened in 2008, with its own crematory on the premises since April 2025. An owner answers calls 24 hours a day.

Cremation

1-618-259-6462
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