Funeral Homes in New Castle County, Delaware

30 funeral homes and crematories in New Castle County, Delaware, 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.

Licence rows come from the Delaware Board of Funeral Services, Division of Professional Regulation; 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.

30 funeral homes and crematories in New Castle County

Gebhart Funeral Home - Claymont

3401 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, DE 19703

Claymont chapel of Gebhart Funeral Homes, a firm the Gebhart family took over in 1919, in a house built in 1915 as a vacation home and converted to a funeral home in the 1950s. The family bought the chapel in 1972, and the firm's preneed plans moved here when its New Castle building closed to services in 2021.

Pre-need arrangements

1-302-798-7726

Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home & Crematory

214 Clinton Street, Delaware City, DE 19706

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.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-834-4524

Chandler Funeral Home of Hockessin LLC

7230 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin, DE 19707

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.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-478-7100

Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home LLC

212 N Broad St., Middletown, DE 19709

Family-owned Middletown funeral home founded in Townsend in 1924, in a Victorian home in the town's historic district since 1944. Its chapel, renovated and enlarged in 2004, seats 150, with off-street valet parking, and a luncheon can follow a memorial service at its Grace Hall banquet facility.

1-302-378-3410

Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home & Crematory

275 E. Main Street, Middletown, DE 19709

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.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-378-0300

Krienen-Griffith Funeral Home

101 West 6th Street, New Castle, DE 19720

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.

CremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-328-9300

Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home & Crematory

1000 N. DuPont Parkway, New Castle, DE 19720

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.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-328-2213

Beeson Funeral Home of Newark, LLC

2053 Pulaski Highway, Newark, DE 19702

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.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-453-1900

DPFS, Inc or Strano & Feeley Family Funeral Home

635 Churchmans Rd., Newark, DE 19702

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.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-731-5459

RT Foard & Jones Inc.

122 W. Main St., Newark, DE 19711

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.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-302-731-4627

Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home & Crematory

121 W. Park Place, Newark, DE 19711

Newark funeral home of Spicer-Mullikin, a family-owned firm tracing to 1906 with four locations in New Castle County. Has a professional grief specialist on staff and runs aftercare support groups, and streams services online through a local video partner.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-302-368-9500

Family First Funeral Services, LLC

212 E. Justis Street, Newport, DE 19804

Newport funeral home whose staff includes a director of religious protocol and several pastors and ministers. The firm has a second location in Milford for Sussex County.

Muslim funeralsSpanish spoken

1-800-377-6949

Nichols-Gilmore Funeral Home and Cremation Service

212 East Justis Street, Newport, DE 19804

Newport funeral home in an early-1900s house that became a funeral home in 1934, with a chapel whose seating is arranged for small services or large gatherings. Its own staff answer the phone day or night, never an answering service or call center.

Spanish spokenPre-need arrangements

1-302-998-8013

Bell Family Funeral Services

105 E. 35th Street, Wilmington, DE 19802

Wilmington funeral service formed in October 2024 to carry on the Bell family's funeral business, which began as Bell Funeral Home in 1930. Its directors are licensed in Delaware and Maryland.

Veterans services

1-302-658-1555

Bennie Smith Funeral Home - Wilmington

741 S Broom Street, Wilmington, DE 19805

Wilmington funeral home of Bennie Smith Funeral Home's five Delaware locations, serving families throughout the city, New Castle County and northern Delaware. Its staff includes licensed funeral directors, embalmers and certified crematory operators, with a designated pre-need team.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-655-2219

Brandywine Valley Funeral Care, LLC

412 Philadelphia Pike, Wilmington, DE 19809

Wilmington funeral home built around simplified funeral and cremation packages, with an on-site crematory and the on-site Beeson Chapel for services. Serves families in Wilmington and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-764-2900

Chandler Funeral Homes of Wilmington LLC

2506 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803

Wilmington funeral home founded in 1892 and run by four generations of the Chandler family, with a spacious chapel and foyer. Certified celebrants on staff lead memorial services for families with no church or clergy, and the firm runs its own crematory.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-478-7100

Charles P Arcaro Funeral Home

2309 Lancaster Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19805

Wilmington funeral home whose business began in 1964, successor to the Joanna Corleto Funeral Home and in its present building since 1973. The building is handicapped accessible, with a viewing parlor for large visitations or smaller services, lounges and a lit parking lot for evening visitations.

1-302-658-9095

Corleto-Latina Funeral Home

808 N Union Street, Wilmington, DE 19805

Wilmington funeral home in the city's Little Italy neighborhood, in its building since 1944 and descended from a home founded in 1906 by the first licensed female funeral director in Delaware. Its Family Center across the street seats 175 for visitations, funerals, memorials and community events.

1-302-652-6642

Doherty Funeral Homes

3200 Limestone Road, Wilmington, DE 19808

Pike Creek home of Doherty Funeral Homes, a Wilmington family firm founded in 1896, opened in 1974 and laid out to serve one family at a time. It has a private family room, an upstairs lounge, and an on-site cremation center opened in 2025.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-302-999-8277

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