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Funeral Homes in Delaware

67 funeral homes and crematories 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.

All States7799Alabama407Alaska23Arizona57Arkansas339California651Colorado176Connecticut246Delaware67District of Columbia19Florida710Georgia599Hawaii23Idaho102Illinois728Indiana639Iowa407Kansas352Kentucky327Nevada87New Jersey586New York1254
All of Delaware67Kent County15New Castle County30Sussex County22
All servicesBurial12Cremation42Green burial4Pre-need arrangements33Veterans services8Out-of-state and international transport10Human composting1
Any faithMuslim1
Any languageSpanish2

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.

67 funeral homes and crematories in Delaware

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

Bennie Smith Funeral Home - Milford

274 N Rehoboth Boulevard, Milford, DE 19963

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.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-422-5955

Berry-Short Funeral Home - Milford

119 N.W. Front Street, Milford, DE 19963

Milford funeral home built in 1952 with plenty of room and ample parking, serving Milford, Harrington, Bowers, Frederica, Slaughter Neck, Lincoln and Ellendale. One of four chapels of Berry-Short Funeral Homes and Short Funeral Services.

1-302-422-8091

Lofland Funeral Home

102 Lakeview Ave., Milford, DE 19963

Milford funeral home founded in 1919, in a building overlooking Silver Lake that it has occupied since 1984, with a chapel and a family room. It bought Harrington's McKnatt Funeral Home in 2000 and runs it as McKnatt, Carpenter & Baker Funeral Home under the same owners.

1-302-422-5416

McPherson Funeral & Cremation Services, Inc.

309 North Street, Milford, DE

Milford funeral home of a firm operating as McPherson Funeral Service since 2010 with a second home in Laurel, serving families in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and the District of Columbia.

1-302-422-9441

Rogers Funeral Home

301 Lakeview Ave, Milford, DE 19963

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.

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

1-302-422-4025

Bennie Smith Funeral Home - Millsboro

30587 Dupont Boulevard, Millsboro, DE 19966

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.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-934-9019

Melson Funeral Services

32013 Long Neck Road, Millsboro, DE 19966

Millsboro chapel of the family-owned Melson Funeral Services in eastern Sussex County, built in 1988 on a spacious lot with a large chapel, ample seating and parking. It serves Millsboro, Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Angola, Oak Orchard, Harbeson and Milton.

1-302-945-9000

Watson Funeral Home LLC

211 Washington St, Millsboro, DE 19966

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.

Cremation

1-302-934-7842

Short Funeral Services - Milton

416 Federal Street, Milton, DE 19968

Milton funeral home in the former residence of Delaware's 44th governor, kept as near to its period as possible and part of Delaware's Historic Register. One of four chapels run with Berry-Short Funeral Homes in Kent and Sussex counties.

1-302-684-8521

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

Melson Funeral Services

38040 Muddy Neck Road, Ocean View, DE 19970

Ocean View chapel of the family-owned Melson Funeral Services in eastern Sussex County, opened in 2000 on 13 acres with a large chapel and ample parking. It serves Ocean View, Bethany Beach, Millville, Selbyville, Fenwick Island, Clarksville and Dagsboro.

1-302-537-2441

Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium

34874 Atlantic Ave, Ocean View, DE 19970

Ocean View chapel of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, opened in 1996 and decorated in soft blue-gray to suit the beach area. It seats up to 200 with parking for 70 cars, and serves Long Neck, Dagsboro, Millville, Bethany Beach, Frankford and Clarksville.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-302-539-1600
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