73 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Maine, 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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73 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Maine
Alfred funeral home in York County that serves one family at a time in a house kept as a home, with arrangements made around the kitchen table and outdoor areas where guests can gather. It holds a service of remembrance each holiday season and serves Acton, Lebanon, Sanford, Springvale, Limerick, Lyman, Newfield, Shapleigh and Waterboro.
Arundel funeral and cremation home with a specialty in shipping remains abroad to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its green burials go to a local green burial cemetery with a burial shroud, and it sets up Maine mortuary trusts for advance plans, including irrevocable trusts for Maine Care purposes.
Auburn funeral home of The Fortin Group, formed in 1992 when Fortin Funeral Directors merged with Plummer & Merrill & Teague Funeral Homes. It has visitation rooms for smaller gatherings, a chapel seating up to 250, and a catering room with a staging kitchen added in a recent renovation.
Auburn cemetery and crematory that opened Maine’s first crematory in 1950 and built the state’s first community mausoleum in the early 1960s. An indoor gathering room seats up to 100 for services when winter rules out the graveside, and the park also keeps a pet cemetery.
Augusta office of Funeral Alternatives, a locally owned firm that has served Augusta, Lewiston and Brunswick since 2002. Cremated remains are generally ready in five to seven business days, prearrangements are placed in a mortuary trust, and its list of towns served runs from Yarmouth to Boothbay and Vassalboro.
Augusta funeral home founded in 1898 as the Plummer Funeral Parlor and incorporated in 1959, which built a second funeral home in Windsor in 2002 and 2003.
Family-owned Bangor funeral home, the oldest of its kind in the area, and the main chapel and administrative offices of Brookings-Smith. Its chapel has cherry pews and an organ and seats up to 400, and the firm owns Pine Grove Crematorium, which has a viewing room for families who wish to witness a cremation.
Bangor arrangement space of the family-owned Brookings-Smith funeral home, 3,400 square feet where families plan a service at the time of need or in advance, with a merchandise showroom. It was designed to be accessible throughout.
Bangor direct cremation provider for families who want no public or private viewing, rites or ceremonies before cremation, serving four Maine counties, Penobscot and Hancock among them. Arrangements can be completed electronically, and a Maine mortuary trust is available for arranging a cremation in advance.
Family-owned Bangor funeral and cremation service in a Civil War-era Italianate home whose function rooms have 12- to 14-foot ceilings and marble fireplaces. The Kiley family firm, founded in 1963 and with a second location in Brewer, assists families with veterans' benefits and with burial in the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery.
Crematory of Mount Hope Cemetery, a Bangor garden cemetery established in 1834 whose grounds also hold columbaria, a mausoleum and an urn garden. It ships cremated remains by Priority Mail Express.
Bangor crematory beside Pine Grove Cemetery, operated since 2007 by Brookings-Smith. Its Remembrance Center holds a committal or memorial service for up to 40 people and has a small kitchen, and a viewing room lets a family witness the cremation. Each cremation follows a ten-step identification and tracking process, and the crematory is recorded around the clock on closed-circuit video.
Bath funeral home opened in 1930 and run by the Desmond family, now in its third generation, which added a Brunswick home in 1986. It is certified by the Green Burial Council, keeps green caskets and biodegradable urns at both homes, and is an authorized representative of Collette Monuments.
Belfast cremation service started in 1985 as the first statewide complete cremation service, which also arranges memorial services, burials, private family viewings and attendance at the crematory during the cremation. It offers cremation by alkaline hydrolysis and simple and green burial options, and serves all of Maine.
Belfast crematory that is Riposta Funeral Home's own. The cremations in its veterans' packages and in Direct Cremation of Maine's simple cremation package take place there.
Belfast funeral home run by the Riposta family since 1978, when the couple bought the town's funeral home, with its own crematory, Maine Coast Crematory.
Berwick funeral home that the Bibber family bought in 2002 as the Laing Funeral Chapel and renamed the Laing-Bibber Funeral Chapel. Its new building was completed in 2021.
Biddeford funeral home formed in 1993 by the merger of three local firms, the oldest of which opened in the 1890s. Its building, rebuilt from a former bowling alley, has two chapels that together seat 300, a reception room for 50 and 145 parking spaces. It offers witnessed cremations and runs Hope Heals, a ten-week grief support group.
Biddeford cremation service founded in June 2020 by a group of funeral homes, where arrangements and paperwork are completed online with no visit to a funeral home. It owns its crematory, keeps a live person on its phones at all hours, and serves families within 90 miles of its Biddeford and Portsmouth, New Hampshire locations.
Boothbay funeral home with a chapel for families who do not want a formal church setting, a reception lounge and an entrance-hall collection of dolls from around the world. One of three Hall homes serving Midcoast Maine since 1958; services are streamed online, and the firm has its own crematory, Midcoast Crematory, in Thomaston.
