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Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements in Birmingham, Alabama

10 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Birmingham, Alabama. Each listing names the services the home offers, the faiths it serves and the languages its staff speak, with its address, its phone and a link to its general price list where it posts one.

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10 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Birmingham

Arrington Funeral Home

Birmingham, AL 35211

Arrington Funeral Home is on Cotton Avenue SW in Birmingham and serves greater Birmingham and the surrounding counties. It states it offers pre-need arrangements, honors burial policies of all companies, and has chapel facilities for funeral services and community meetings. Its history page dates the home to 1990.

Pre-need arrangements

1-205-786-6288

Bushelon Funeral Home

Birmingham, AL 35211

Bushelon Funeral Home is at 800 14th Street SW in Birmingham, in Jefferson County. Its site states the family established it in 1976 and that it offers funeral and burial services, cremation and memorial services, preplanning, and guidance with veterans benefits.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-205-786-3449

Cornerstone Funeral Services & Cremations

Birmingham, AL 35215

Cornerstone Funeral Services & Cremations is on Carson Road in Birmingham. It states it offers traditional, nontraditional and cremation services, along with preplanning arrangements and pre-need transfers from other funeral homes. The site says it was established in 2019 and opened its new facility on January 9, 2023.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-949-9500

Cornerstone Funeral Services & Cremations

Birmingham, AL 35215

Cornerstone Funeral Services & Cremations is on Carson Road in Birmingham. It states it offers traditional, nontraditional and cremation services, and that its retort is on site and it performs all of its own cremations. The site also states preplanning arrangements and pre-need transfers from other funeral homes.

CrematoryCremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-949-9500

Dante Jelks Funeral Home

Birmingham, AL 35222

Dante Jelks Funeral Home is on 1st Avenue North in Birmingham, with a second location on Forrest Avenue in Gadsden. Its site states the home opened on April 19, 2013, accepts bodies for cremation, and is licensed through the Alabama Department of Insurance to provide pre-need services.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-595-0111

John Ridouts Funeral Parlors

Birmingham, AL 35233

Johns-Ridout's Funeral Parlors is on University Boulevard in Birmingham, in Jefferson County. Its page states it helps area families with funeral and cremation needs, has a large chapel for family and friends, and offers planning ahead in person or virtually.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-251-5254

John Ridouts Mortuary - Elmwood

Birmingham, AL 35211

Johns-Ridout's Mortuary-Elmwood Chapel is on Dennison Avenue SW in southwest Birmingham, in Jefferson County, and states it provides funeral and cremation services. Its sister location, Elmwood Cemetery & Mausoleum, less than a mile away, handles burial, and the home has the 250-seat Celebration Chapel.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-251-7227

NEPTUNE SOCIETY - BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, AL 35243

Neptune Society - Birmingham is a cremation office on Colonnade Parkway in Birmingham, in Jefferson County, handling cremation for an immediate need and prepaid cremation planned ahead. For a recent death it handles the death certificate and cremation permit and the transport to the cremation facility, and it helps families with a veteran's benefits eligibility.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-205-858-5954

Ridout's Trussville Chapel

Birmingham, AL 35235

Ridout's Trussville Chapel is on Gadsden Highway in Birmingham, in Jefferson County. It states it opened in June 1975 and offers funeral and cremation services, with a chapel seating 280 guests and a reception room for catered receptions. It offers planning ahead in person or virtually.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-655-2173

Smith & Gaston Funeral Services

Birmingham, AL 35211

Smith & Gaston Funeral Services is on 6th Avenue Southwest in Birmingham, Jefferson County. Its site traces the firm to 1923, says the family that runs it today bought it in 1980, and states that families can arrange everything from traditional burial to cremation there, with pre-need packages available.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-205-322-3581
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