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.

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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.

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Lisbon Falls funeral home founded in 1896 that has occupied an 1875 house since 1956. It has small areas with intimate seating, reception areas suited to catered events and larger groups, and onsite parking.

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Livermore Falls funeral home established in 1970, when its founder bought the L.P. Brown Funeral Home where he had apprenticed. The same owner and staff run Bragdon-Finley Funeral Home in Monmouth, bought in 1984.

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Mechanic Falls funeral home opened in 1966 as Gallant-Raymond Funeral Home, now one of the Chandler Funeral Homes. It occupies an old New England home with a glassed-in porch, seats 175 to 200 for services, shows video tributes on a 42-inch screen, and keeps a selection room of caskets and urns with a monument display.

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