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Cremation Services in Iowa

183 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation 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.

All States2388Alabama123Alaska19Arizona53Arkansas178California459Colorado131Connecticut132District of Columbia11Florida499Georgia247Hawaii18Indiana272Iowa183Nevada63
All of Iowa183Adams County1Benton County1Black Hawk County6Boone1Bremer County3Buchanan County3Butler County1Calhoun County1Cass County1Cedar County1Cerro Gordo County2Chickasaw County3Clay County3Clayton County4Clinton5Dallas County7Davis County1Delaware County4Des Moines County1Dickinson County2Dubuque8Fayette County2Floyd County2Guthrie County3Hamilton County3Hardin County2Henry County4Howard County1Ida County2Jackson County2Jasper County2Jefferson County2Johnson County5Jones County1Keokuk County1Kossuth County5Linn County13Lucas County1Madison County2Marion County2Marshall County2Mills County2Monroe County2Muscatine2O'Brien County1Osceola County1Page County3Palo Alto County2Polk County24Pottawattamie County2Poweshiek County1Sac County1Scott County3Sioux County4Story County4Union County1Wapello County2Warren County3Washington2Webster County2Winnebago County1Woodbury County2Wright County1
All of IowaFort Madison1
All servicesBurial74Cremation183Green burial5Pre-need arrangements151Veterans services50Out-of-state and international transport30Home funeral support2
Any faithJewish1
Any languageSpanish4

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.

183 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Iowa

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

309 W. Main St., Knoxville, IA 50138

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-842-5126

Locke In La Porte City

606 East Main Street, La Porte City, IA 50651

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans servicesOut-of-state and international transport

1-319-342-3131

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

104 S. Washington Ave. Ste 1, Lacona, IA 50139

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-534-9957

Sundberg-Kirkpatrick Funeral Home

202 South Market Street, Madrid, IA 50156

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-515-795-3283

Loess Hills Funeral and Cremation Center

208 East 4th Street, Malvern, IA 51551

Malvern home of Loess Hills Funeral & Cremation Center, which serves southwest Iowa families from Carson, Glenwood and Malvern. Its staff helps families choose a monument or other permanent memorial, and a licensed preneed agent handles prearrangement planning and aftercare support.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-712-624-8444

Bohnenkamp-Murdoch Funeral Home

925 West Main Street, Manchester, IA 52057

Manchester funeral home with a privately owned crematory, part of the family-owned Murdoch funeral homes since 1995 and in its ground-level building since 1998. Its chapel suits a traditional or a casual service, the building can be set up for receptions and meals, and services can be livestreamed.

BurialCremation

1-563-927-2315

Leonard-Muller Funeral Home

1500 N. Franklin St., Manchester, IA 52057

Manchester funeral home of Leonard-Muller with its own crematory on site; the firm also has homes in Strawberry Point and Edgewood. The chapel seats large crowds, a family lounge offers coffee, cold drinks and snacks, and the building is handicap accessible inside and out.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-563-927-3112

Leonard-Muller Funeral Home and Crematory

1500 N. Franklin St., Manchester, IA 52057

Manchester crematory that Leonard-Muller operates at its Manchester funeral home, handling cremations locally with options from a simple cremation to a complete service. The firm also has funeral homes in Strawberry Point and Edgewood.

CrematoryCremationPre-need arrangements

1-563-927-3112

Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services DBA Larson-Weishaar Funeral Home

1408 11th Ave., Manson, IA 50563

Manson funeral chapel, the former Larson-Weishaar Funeral Home, which merged in July 2023 with Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Fort Dodge and now serves as its Weishaar Chapel. Prepaid funeral plans are funded through Homesteaders Life Company.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-712-469-3315

Carson and Son Funeral Home,Inc

318 West Pleasant St., Maquoketa, IA 52060

Maquoketa funeral home serving families since 1936, in an 1877 Victorian home on the National Register where it has been since 1938. Its event center, The Bistro, opened in 2009 with a private entrance and catering; a certified funeral celebrant on staff can officiate a memorial service, and a registered therapy dog is on hand.

BurialCremation

1-563-652-2444

Murdoch Funeral Home

3855 Katz Drive, Marion, IA 52302

Marion funeral home with an on-site crematory, serving Marion since 1847 and in its present building since 1983, the home firm of the family-owned Murdoch Funeral Homes & Cremation Service. Its large chapel can be turned into a reception space for a meal, and services can be livestreamed.

BurialCremation

1-319-377-1553

Murdoch Funeral Home

3855 Katz Drive, Marion, IA 52302

Crematory at the Marion funeral home of the family-owned Murdoch Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, serving its six Linn and Delaware county locations, with a two-step identification of fingerprinting and ID tagging for each person in its care.

CrematoryCremation

1-319-377-1553

Mitchell Family Funeral Services, LLC

1209 Iowa Avenue W, Marshalltown, IA 50158

Family-owned Marshalltown funeral home founded in 2004, with its own crematory on site, one-floor accessibility and a lounge for luncheons; a funeral museum founded in 2017 stands next door. The firm also runs the West Marshall Chapel in State Center.

Cremation

1-641-844-1234

Fullerton Funeral Home

123 2nd St. SE, Mason City, IA 50401

Mason City funeral home with an onsite crematory, catering and a chapel seating over 250 with a pipe organ. Part of a family owned and operated group of four North Iowa funeral homes, whose original home was established in 1916.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-641-423-8676

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

203 NW Center St., Melcher-Dallas, IA 50163

Melcher-Dallas funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Knoxville, Lacona 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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-947-3605

Cremation Services Of NW Iowa

705 28th St, Milford, IA 51351

Milford cremation center operated by Warner Funeral Homes & Crematory, a firm that began in Spencer in 1957 with funeral homes in Spencer, Everly and Peterson. The firm is a member of the Cremation Association of North America.

CrematoryCremation

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

201 Walnut St., Milo, IA 50166

Milo funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Knoxville, Lacona and Melcher-Dallas. 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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-942-6228

Mitchellville Funeral Home

303 Center Avenue South, Mitchellville, IA 50169

Mitchellville funeral home of the family-owned Hamilton's, begun as a furniture and undertaking business at the turn of the century and part of Hamilton's since 1976. Its building, designed in 1989 with room for the whole funeral service and receptions, was recently updated. Families may be present for cremation at Hamilton's own crematory.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-515-967-0778

Kramer-Morris Funeral Home

700 Oak Street, Monticello, IA 52310

Monticello funeral home built in 1997, run with sister homes in Dyersville, Holy Cross, Guttenberg and Garnavillo. Arranges limited cremation and monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-319-465-5400

Murphy Funeral Home

408 Broadway, Mount Pleasant, IA 52641

Mount Pleasant funeral home founded in 1911 and family owned, in a house built in 1876, that also sells monuments. It arranges military honors, obtains a missing DD 214, and orders and installs veterans' headstones.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-319-385-4713
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