Beacon funeral and cremation firm whose business passed to Riverview Funeral Home by Halvey in December 2024. Its own location closed, and its business is now conducted from the Riverview funeral home overlooking the Hudson River.
More Funeral Homes in Dutchess County
Beacon funeral home founded in 1933 and the city's sole remaining independent funeral home, with two service rooms overlooking the Hudson River, the River Room among the largest in the Hudson Valley. It donates a portion of every service to the Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Dover Plains funeral home founded in 1928, since 1994 in a renovated three-story Colonial home with a stone gazebo and carriage house, a viewing room seating about 75 and a 100-car parking lot. It provides markers and stone memorials and serves Amenia, Millbrook, Millerton, Pawling, Wingdale and western Connecticut.
Fishkill funeral home opened by the McHoul family in 2011 in a 200-year-old building in the historic Village of Fishkill, a sister to the family's Hopewell Junction home. The family has served as licensed funeral directors for four generations.
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County funeral home of a family firm established in 1928, in a house built between 1836 and 1843 that the family moved into in 1929 and joined to a neighboring house in 1973; six original marble fireplaces remain.
Hopewell Junction funeral home, the town's first, opened in 1963 and bought by the McHoul family in 1966; in 1981 it moved into the 1750 Van Wyck homestead next door. A 2000 addition brought more visitation rooms and a non-denominational chapel, and the family runs a second home in Fishkill.
Death Certificates and the Medical Examiner in Dutchess County
Vital Records Office Record
New York State Department of Health - Vital Records Section
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Verified October 15, 2026 · Source
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