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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Lewiston funeral home founded in 1925, in an 1886 house built for the overseer of the Pepperell Mill, with Italian mosaic tile fireplaces and a carriage house converted into a visitation room. It has a reception room for gatherings after a service and arranges green burials at Cedar Brook Burial Grounds in Limington and Baldwin Hill Conservation Cemetery in Winthrop.

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Lewiston funeral home formed in 2023 when The Fortin Group joined Pinette Dillingham & Lynch, bringing together four funeral homes whose roots reach back to 1871. Its 10,000-square-foot building has a chapel that holds more than 250 guests and parking for more than 100 cars, and it serves families across Androscoggin County.

Lewiston office of Funeral Alternatives, which has served Lewiston, Brunswick and Augusta since 2002 and serves a set list of towns reaching from Yarmouth to Boothbay and Vassalboro. Cremated remains are generally ready in five to seven business days, and its urns range from brass and slate to biodegradable selections.

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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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