Boyden funeral home, one of two Vander Ploeg homes with Sheldon, in the Eldridge Family Funeral Homes group with Paullina, Primghar, Sutherland and Andringa Funeral Home of Sheldon. Arranges direct cremation without a service, supplies cremation urns and urn vaults, and helps with forms and notary services.

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Hospers chapel of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Vander Ploeg Funeral Home here in 2001. The building, put up in 2001-02, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room and a chapel for 75. The firm brings remains home to northwest Iowa from anywhere in the United States or abroad.

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Hull funeral home of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Kraai Funeral Home here in 1983. The building, constructed in 1996, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room, a children's room, a chapel seating 100 and parking for 30 vehicles.

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Ireton funeral home, formerly the Dow Funeral Home, part of Porter Funeral Homes since 1989; it shares its phone line with the Hawarden home, and the firm also serves Rock Valley, Inwood and Hudson, South Dakota.

Orange City funeral home of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, in a building opened in 1973 and rebuilt in 1997-98 in the Dutch architectural style of the town. It has a chapel for 125 with overflow seating, a reception room, a children's lounge, an elevator, and parking for more than 100 vehicles within a block.

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Rock Valley funeral home established in 1961 as the second home of Porter Funeral Homes, which also serves Inwood, Hawarden, Ireton and Hudson, South Dakota.