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Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements in Kentucky

95 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Kentucky, 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.

All States2684Alabama119Alaska7Arizona23Arkansas114California260Colorado105Connecticut77Delaware33District of Columbia5Florida365Georgia147Hawaii8Idaho44Illinois196Indiana172Iowa151Kansas101Kentucky95Nevada40New Jersey168New York454
All of Kentucky95Adair County1Anderson County1Bell County2Boyd County1Boyle County1Bracken County1Breckinridge County1Bullitt County3Butler County1Caldwell County1Calloway County3Campbell County2Carroll County2Christian County1Clark County1Clinton County2Crittenden County1Cumberland County1Daviess County2Edmonson County1Estill County1Fayette County5Fleming County1Franklin County1Fulton County1Graves County1Greenup County1Hardin County1Harlan County1Hart County1Henderson County2Jefferson County12Jessamine County1Kenton County2Knott County1Knox County3LaRue County2Laurel County1Lawrence County1Lewis County1Lincoln County1Madison County1Magoffin County1Marion County1Mason County1McCracken County1McLean County2Mercer County1Montgomery County1Morgan County1Muhlenberg County1Ohio County1Oldham County1Perry County1Shelby County2Spencer County1Todd County1Trigg County1Warren County3Washington County1Webster County1Woodford County1
All servicesBurial54Cremation128Green burial6Pre-need arrangements95Veterans services39Out-of-state and international transport13Human composting1
Any faithCatholic1Muslim1
Any languageSpanish1

Licence rows come from the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors; what a home offers comes from its own site. SimplyTrust lists no prices, no reviews and no rankings, and does not endorse any home. Contact a home directly for its general price list, which the Funeral Rule requires it to provide.

95 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Kentucky

Louisville Memorial Gardens Funeral Home East

11601 Ballardsville Road, Louisville, KY 40241

Louisville cemetery and funeral home whose grounds center on a natural spring-fed lake, serving Jefferson and Oldham counties since 1952, with mausoleum spaces and Evermark family estates.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-502-826-8597

Pearson Funeral Home

149 Breckenridge Lane, Louisville, KY 40207

Louisville funeral home built in 1951 in St. Matthews, the Pearson firm's main home since 1978; the firm has served Louisville families for over 178 years and passed to new owners in 2011. A 2001 renovation added a lounge, a visitation room and improved parking.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-502-896-0349

Ratterman & Sons Funeral Home

3800 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40218

Louisville funeral home the Ratterman family opened in 1963, one of three homes of Ratterman & Sons, a firm whose roots go back to 1864 and whose fourth and fifth generations lead it today. The firm cremates in its own crematory, where families may witness the start of the cremation.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-502-459-3800

Rodgers-Awkard-Lyons Funeral Home

951 S. Preston Street, Louisville, KY 40203

Downtown Louisville funeral home with a homelike setting and lighted, handicap-accessible parking. A member of Funeral Auto Company, it draws on more than 20 hearses and 20 limousines, and its pre-need plans are deposited with the Funeral Funding Trust of Kentucky.

Pre-need arrangements

1-502-584-3945

Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home, Inc.

316 Elm Street, Ludlow, KY 41016

Ludlow funeral home founded in 1935 and owned by the Jones family since 1960, in the 1849 Bentley House since 1946, where visitations and services share one large room with a sound system and an organ. It arranges Catholic vigils and funeral Masses with the parishes of the Diocese of Covington and serves Kenton, Boone and Campbell counties.

Catholic funeralsBurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-859-431-0072

Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home

9025 New Jackson Highway, Magnolia, KY 42757

Magnolia funeral home founded in 1895, the second oldest existing business in LaRue County, in a building put up in 1966. It arranges anatomical donation to universities with or without a memorial service, and can hold the visitation and the funeral on the same day.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-270-324-3291

Myers Funeral Home

713 E Bellville St, Marion, KY 42064

Marion funeral home that sells monuments, with custom work and a display lot at the funeral home. It honors pre-arrangements made at any other funeral home and arranges military services with the local VFW or American Legion.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-270-965-0110

Palmer Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc.

5043 Main Street, May's Lick, KY 41055

May's Lick funeral home that has held funerals and memorial services for families of all faiths for over 50 years, in a home-like setting whose facilities have been modernized over time.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-606-763-6405

Byrn Funeral Home, Inc.

1020 Paris Road, Mayfield, KY 42066

Mayfield funeral home founded in 1921 and owned by the fourth generation of the Byrn family, in a facility built in 1960 and since redecorated for a warm, home-like atmosphere. It makes memorial videos and keeps a 24-hour obituary line.

Pre-need arrangements

1-270-247-3592

Cawood Funeral Home

112 South 21st Street, Middlesboro, KY 40965

Middlesboro funeral home owned and operated by the Cawood family, which bought a former residence for it in 1932 and remodeled the building in 1965. Its chapel has a stained-glass window.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-606-248-4700

Shumate Funeral Home, Inc.

2321 Cumberland Avenue, Middlesboro, KY 40965

Middlesboro funeral home in a colonial house bought in 1961 and later enlarged with a chapel with pew seating, large visitation rooms and a lounge. The business traces to Callison's Undertaking Company of about 1890 and has offered advance funeral planning since 1961.

Pre-need arrangements

1-606-248-1234

Smith Funeral Home

403 N. Main St., Morgantown, KY 42261

Morgantown funeral home that has served Butler County families since 1886. Its large chapel seats up to 300 beside a gathering area, the original chapel is kept much as it was in years past, and family lounges allow food and drinks. The home also runs a monument division.

Pre-need arrangements

1-270-526-3532

Herald & Stewart Home For Funerals

1002 Woodford Drive, Mount Sterling, KY 40353

Mt. Sterling funeral home started as a family business in 1970, serving families of Montgomery County and across Kentucky. It has a large visitation area, a separate chapel built for funerals, a casket selection room and covered walkways, and brings loved ones who moved away back home for their final resting place.

CremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-859-498-1421

McFarland-Troutman-Proffitt Funeral Home

111 N. Bardstown Road, Mount Washington, KY 40047

Mt. Washington funeral home with 125 years of service, kept by five generations of one family until 1996, when the Proffitt family bought it. It arranges traditional and non-traditional services, has a permanent memorialization and marker service, and works from a completely renovated building.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans servicesOut-of-state and international transport

1-502-955-7738

Sego Funeral Home

114 W. South Street, Munfordville, KY 42765

Munfordville funeral home dating to the 1930s, with a chapel added in 1960 and a second chapel, begun in 2017, that seats 150. The building is on one level and fully accessible, and the home helps families file Social Security death benefit, life insurance and veterans' benefit claims.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-270-524-2421

Imes Funeral Home & Crematory

311 North 4th Street, Murray, KY 42071

Murray funeral home whose business began in 1901 above an Almo general store and has stood downtown since 1946. The Imes family reacquired it in 2001 and added a crematory the same year; six generations of the family have served Murray and Calloway County.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-270-753-7000

Imes Funeral Home & Crematory, Heritage Chapel

1804 Highway 121 Bypass N., Murray, KY 42071

Murray chapel of Imes Funeral Home & Crematory, built in 2000 as Murray Calloway Funeral Home and acquired by the firm in 2002. The firm added a crematory in 2001, and six generations of the Imes family have served Murray and Calloway County.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-270-753-8888

J.H. Churchill Funeral Home

201 South 3rd Street, Murray, KY 42071

Murray funeral home that has served Calloway County since 1886, in a downtown building put up in 1960. Has parlor rooms for visitations and wakes, a chapel for funeral and memorial services, a clergy consultation room and a coffee lounge, and keeps records of its funerals back to the early 1900s for families tracing their genealogy.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-270-753-2411

Fares J. Radel Funeral Home

822 York Street, Newport, KY 41071

Newport funeral home of the Radel firm, whose funeral service dates to 1878, in a historic 15,000-square-foot building with two visitation chapels. Catering is available, and the firm's Cincinnati home has its own private crematory.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangementsVeterans servicesOut-of-state and international transport

1-859-261-8560

Betts & West Funeral Home

404 N. Main Street, Nicholasville, KY 40356

Nicholasville funeral home run by the West family since 1950. It has a spacious chapel, and the house's original rooms give each family a private space.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-859-885-4173
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