Augusta funeral home whose firm traces its beginnings to an 1822 maker of furniture, coffins and caskets. Its building, put up from 1920 to 1922, was the first in Maine built for the purpose of serving as a funeral home, and the firm merged with Winthrop's Roberts Funeral Home in 1984.

Augusta office of Funeral Alternatives, a locally owned firm that has served Augusta, Lewiston and Brunswick since 2002. Cremated remains are generally ready in five to seven business days, prearrangements are placed in a mortuary trust, and its list of towns served runs from Yarmouth to Boothbay and Vassalboro.

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Augusta funeral home founded in 1898 as the Plummer Funeral Parlor and incorporated in 1959, which built a second funeral home in Windsor in 2002 and 2003.

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Gardiner funeral home established in April 1928 as the city's first funeral home. Its private chapel seats up to 60, and opening its french doors to the reposing room lets 150 attend; a family room off the chapel sits in view of the pulpit, and caskets are shown upstairs. The building is in the Cape Cod Colonial style.

Monmouth funeral home, formerly Bragdon-Flanders Funeral Home, bought in 1984 by the owner of Finley Funeral Home in Livermore Falls, which he established in 1970. The two homes share one owner and staff.

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Winthrop funeral home in a house the Roberts family bought in 1923 and made the area's first funeral parlor, after a fire in Readfield Village; the family's undertaking trade began in Wayne in 1840. The firm merged with Augusta's Knowlton & Hewins in 1984.