Seaford funeral home that began in 1820 as The House of Watson and has worked from its present building since 1858, now a sister location of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium. Its chapel seats 90, and services are streamed online.
33 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Delaware, listed by city and county. 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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33 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Delaware
Seaford funeral home that began in 1820 as The House of Watson and has worked from its present building since 1858, now a sister location of Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium. Its chapel seats 90, and services are streamed online.
Selbyville funeral home and cremation service whose firm began in 1896 as an undertaking business, became Hastings Funeral Home in 1981 and was renamed Bishop-Hastings in 2015 by the owners who bought it in 2014. It serves Sussex County and Maryland's Worcester County and Eastern Shore, with veterans' services at the veterans cemeteries in Millsboro and Dorchester County, Maryland.
Smyrna funeral home established in 1831, with a renovated chapel seating more than 250 and two large stained glass windows. A 2,100-square-foot reception hall on site seats up to 100, the firm runs its own crematorium, and it offers human composting through an affiliate program with Recompose.
Wilmington funeral home of Bennie Smith Funeral Home's five Delaware locations, serving families throughout the city, New Castle County and northern Delaware. Its staff includes licensed funeral directors, embalmers and certified crematory operators, with a designated pre-need team.
Wilmington funeral home built around simplified funeral and cremation packages, with an on-site crematory and the on-site Beeson Chapel for services. Serves families in Wilmington and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Wilmington funeral home founded in 1892 and run by four generations of the Chandler family, with a spacious chapel and foyer. Certified celebrants on staff lead memorial services for families with no church or clergy, and the firm runs its own crematory.
Pike Creek home of Doherty Funeral Homes, a Wilmington family firm founded in 1896, opened in 1974 and laid out to serve one family at a time. It has a private family room, an upstairs lounge, and an on-site cremation center opened in 2025.
The original Wilmington home of Doherty Funeral Homes, a family firm founded in 1896, open on this site since 1954 near the city's churches and cemeteries. The firm arranges scattering at sea in the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian River Bay, with a certificate of the coordinates, date and time.
Wilmington home of a family-owned firm that two brothers founded in 1917 as Krienen Brothers Funeral Home, now led by the fourth generation of the family. It took its present name after buying Griffith Mortuary in Elsmere in 1970, offers licensed preplanning consultants, and runs a second home in New Castle.
Wilmington funeral home, one of two run by a firm founded in 1911 that has its own crematory, where funeral directors who are certified crematory technicians supervise each cremation. Works with celebrants on non-religious services and includes three grief counseling sessions in its service package.
Talleyville funeral home built on a former apple orchard and twice expanded, one of two run by a Wilmington firm founded in 1911 that has its own crematory. Its funeral directors are certified crematory technicians; it works with celebrants on non-religious services and includes three grief counseling sessions in its service package.
Wilmington home of the family-owned Mealey Funeral Homes, founded in 1912 and now in its fifth generation of family leadership, with a second home in Pike Creek. The family has run its own crematory, Family Cremation Services, since 2003.
Pike Creek home of the family-owned Mealey Funeral Homes, opened in 1972 for families who had moved out of Wilmington. Each year it invites the families it served to a memorial service where each life is marked with a Christmas ornament, and the family has run its own crematory since 2003.