151 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Iowa, 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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151 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Iowa
Des Moines funeral home built in 1987 by the family-owned Hamilton's, with the firm's crematory in the building, where families may be present for all or part of a cremation. A Family Services Center on the lower level hosts gatherings and meals before or after a service.
Family-owned Des Moines funeral home providing cremation across all 99 Iowa counties. Ceremonies are held in its chapel or a place of worship, Monday through Saturday, with visitation the same day or the evening before, and arrangements can be started online.
East Des Moines funeral home opened in 1970 and family owned and operated again since 1988 as part of Iles Funeral Homes. The chapel seats up to 200, a lower-level reception room for about 65 guests has a full kitchen, and services can be live streamed and recorded with video tributes. Collects worn American flags for a formal retirement ceremony.
Locally owned Des Moines funeral home with its own crematory and mausoleum, beside the Chapel Hill Gardens cemetery. Its chapel seats 175 and hosts luncheons after services and farewell receptions with wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres.
Des Moines cremation and funeral provider with its own crematories, a multi-step tracking system through cremation, and witness cremation; arrangements can be made online or at the facility, for families in Polk, Dallas, Warren and twenty more central Iowa counties.
South side Des Moines funeral home of the family-owned Hamilton's, which bought it in 1979 and remodeled and enlarged it in 2022, with a community reception room and space for visitations, funerals and memorial services.
Des Moines funeral home with a chapel built in 2021 at the forty-acre Sunset Memorial Gardens cemetery, locally owned since 2020, so visitations, services, luncheons and graveside burials can be held on one site. The cemetery offers ground burial, niches, mausoleum space and memorial trees.
Des Moines cremation society serving the area for over 30 years, with cremation at its own licensed crematory and an hour of private family viewing before cremation. Arrangements can be made in person or electronically and by phone, within 60 miles of Des Moines.
Des Moines chapel of the family-owned Iles Funeral Homes, its first, established in 1960, with two chapels (the main one seats 180 to 200), a reception room for sit-down meals of up to 60, private family rooms and a children's play area. Services can be live streamed and recorded.
DeWitt funeral home of Schultz Funeral Homes, the former McGinnis Funeral Home bought in 1981, with a sister chapel in Grand Mound. Owned since 2022 by a husband-and-wife team of funeral directors who have worked at the firm since 2010, with a preneed counselor on staff.
Dubuque funeral home dating to 1846, certified by the Green Burial Council, with its own on-site crematory where licensed funeral directors who are certified crematory operators perform every cremation. It has two chapels, one large and one for smaller gatherings, and a lounge with a kitchenette for post-service luncheons.
Dubuque funeral home opened in 1999 with its own crematory on site, two large viewing rooms equipped for two visitations at once, and a main-floor family area where families may bring snacks and beverages during visitation. Every room is on one handicap-accessible floor.
Dubuque crematory built into the Leonard funeral home and serving the area since 2000; cremations are done on site, so no one is sent to another location. Options run from cremation after a funeral with visitation, including same-day services, to a wake and memorial or immediate cremation.
Dyersville funeral home whose funeral care in the town reaches back to 1880, run with sister homes in Monticello, Holy Cross, Guttenberg and Garnavillo. Arranges limited cremation and monuments.
Dysart funeral home, one of the two Overton Funeral Homes with Traer, whose facilities are equipped for gatherings of all sizes; three funeral directors serve both chapels.
Eagle Grove funeral home whose history in the town runs to 1902, since 2019 in a former church building with a chapel, visitation room, kids room and kitchen. It keeps a second chapel in Goldfield, handles body donations, and offers families who are not church members a place for services.
Earlham chapel of a family-owned funeral firm whose own crematory, opened in 2014, stands at its Stuart home, where families may watch the cremation through a viewing window. Arranges air and overseas transfers and home funerals.
Edgewood funeral home of Leonard-Muller, which also has homes in Manchester and Strawberry Point and handles cremations at its own crematory in Manchester. The chapel seats large crowds, a family lounge offers coffee, cold drinks and snacks, and the building is handicap accessible inside and out.
Family-owned Elma funeral home, one of five locations of a Northeast Iowa firm established in 1923, with cremation at the firm's own crematory in New Hampton. Serves Howard County and the Minnesota border towns of Le Roy and Harmony, with a funeral director available 24 hours a day.
Fort Dodge funeral home and cremation service opened in 1966, with its own chapel and a second chapel in Manson, the former Larson-Weishaar Funeral Home, joined by merger in July 2023. Prepaid funeral plans are funded through Homesteaders Life Company.
