Rensselaer County funeral home in Troy, opened in 2018 by a father and son who are both licensed funeral directors. Its staff files and applies for the benefits a veteran is entitled to on the family's behalf, burial in a VA cemetery such as Saratoga National among them.

Veterans servicesPre-need arrangements

Averill Park funeral chapel in a former Methodist church, where the original tin ceilings, plaster walls, stained glass windows and pews remain. It serves the towns of Sand Lake and Poestenkill, has served the community for over 70 years, and has carried services by Skype to family overseas.

BurialCremation

Castleton-on-Hudson funeral home that was the Ray Funeral Service until two of its licensed funeral directors bought it in 2021.

Hoosick Falls funeral home serving the nearby communities of Buskirk, Eagle Bridge, Petersburgh, Berlin, Cambridge and White Creek.

Nassau funeral home, formerly the LeClair Chapel, run by one family since 1976 in a building that had long been a funeral home. For a natural burial it offers environmentally safe embalming, burial shrouds and biodegradable wicker caskets, and it holds a wake and funeral on a single day.

Green burial

Petersburg funeral home acquired in 1995 by Parker Bros. Memorial Funeral Home of Watervliet, one of the five homes that firm lists and one of its two in Rensselaer County.