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Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements Near You

1593 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in 14 states, listed by state, 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 States1593Alabama119Alaska7Arizona23Arkansas114California260Colorado105Connecticut77District of Columbia5Florida365Georgia147Hawaii8Indiana172Iowa151Nevada40
All servicesBurial1284Cremation2388Green burial148Pre-need arrangements1593Veterans services737Out-of-state and international transport419Human composting39Water cremation (aquamation)51Home funeral support3
Any faithJewish89Catholic44Christian13Orthodox Christian9Muslim22Buddhist18Hindu15Sikh5Jain1Latter-day Saints10Jehovah's Witness9
Any languageSpanish277Vietnamese6Chinese6Korean4Tagalog3Russian6Armenian1Arabic2Persian2Portuguese3French3German8Bulgarian1Haitian Creole2Polish2Italian3

Licence rows come from each state funeral board; 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.

1593 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements

KENNY FUNERAL HOME & MONUMENTAL SERVICE INC.

41 Main Street, Sharon, CT 06069

Sharon funeral home founded in 1914 and run by one family through four generations. It also designs headstones, and its designer will walk a local cemetery with a family to discuss the options.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-860-364-5709

EDWARD J TOOHEY JR. DBA AFFORDABLE CREMATIONS LLC

92 HOWE AVE, Shelton, CT 06484

Shelton cremation provider for simple cremation, serving Shelton and Milford. Arranges identification viewings, files the death certificate and permits, and helps families plan memorial services, newspaper notices and the interment of cremated remains.

CremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-203-231-7602

RIVERVIEW FUNERAL HOME INC

390 RIVER RD, Shelton, CT 06484

Shelton funeral home opened in 1968 and run by the founder's family. Has a larger parlor seating a hundred, a smaller one for up to fifty and a third room for private gatherings, is entirely handicap accessible with on-site parking, and gives pre-planning seminars at churches, senior centers and libraries.

Veterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-203-924-6800

MOUNTAIN OAK CREMATION SERVICES, DBA CREMATIONS OF CONNECTICUT

8 SCHUYLER AVE, Stamford, CT 06902

Stamford direct cremation provider where families make the arrangements online, through a series of digital forms, and choose urns and keepsakes.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-203-595-5835

NUTMEG STATE CREMATION SOCIETY LLC

104 MYRTLE AVE, Stamford, CT 06902

Stamford cremation provider established in 2013 that does not require a casket or other mortuary services. Immediate family may view the deceased in its private viewing room before cremation, and arrangements can be started online.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-203-348-0443

SMART FUNERAL PLANNING

453 SHIPPAN AVE, Stamford, CT 06902

Stamford funeral planning firm serving all of Connecticut since 2021, whose licensed funeral directors compare funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries for a client's advance plan. Arranges at-need services day or night, has certified funeral celebrants and hosts death café events.

CremationWater cremation (aquamation)BurialGreen burialPre-need arrangements

1-203-441-5819

ADZIMA FUNERAL HOME INC

50 PARADISE GREEN PL, Stratford, CT 06614

Stratford funeral home founded in Bridgeport in 1914 and run by four generations of one family. Since 1979 it has occupied the Isaac Lewis homestead, a circa 1850 landmark renovated to be fully handicap accessible.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-203-375-2200

GALELLO-LUCHANSKY FUNERAL HOME

2220 MAIN ST, Stratford, CT 06615

Stratford funeral home in business for more than half a century, now led by its founder's nephew. Its staff give families information on probate requirements and hold pre-planning seminars at retirement homes and at the funeral home.

Pre-need arrangements

1-203-378-6097

GODERE FUNERAL HOME INC

21 N 2ND AVE, Taftville, CT 06380

Taftville funeral home serving the Norwich area, formed when Godere Funeral Home, a family business opened in 1958, bought Guillot Funeral Home; a third-generation funeral director of the family serves with it. Has two large chapels for wakes and services and a ramp at the main entrance.

Pre-need arrangements

1-860-889-6082

GODERE GUILLOT FUNERAL HOME, INC.

21 N 2ND AVE, Taftville, CT 06380

Taftville funeral home serving the Norwich area, formed when Godere Funeral Home, a family business opened in 1958, bought Guillot Funeral Home; a third-generation funeral director of the family serves with it. Has two large chapels for wakes and services and a ramp at the main entrance.

Pre-need arrangements

1-860-889-6082

GLEESON-RYAN FUNERAL HOME

258 PROSPECT ST, Torrington, CT 06790

Torrington funeral home serving since 1885 and owned by its present funeral director since 2007. Arranges water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) for families throughout Connecticut, has a barrier-free front entrance and serves Harwinton and Goshen.

BurialCremationGreen burialWater cremation (aquamation)Pre-need arrangements

1-860-489-4104

PHALEN FUNERAL HOME

285 MIGEON AVE, Torrington, CT 06790

Torrington funeral home established in 1929, whose building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-860-489-9600

ABRIOLA PARKVIEW FUNERAL HOME LLC

419 WHITE PLAINS RD, Trumbull, CT 06611

Trumbull funeral home in a renovated historic estate, opened in 1999 by a family in funeral service since 1906 and now in its fourth generation. Its chapels host private or public gatherings, and the grounds have off-street parking and formal gardens with a pond, fountains and a gazebo.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-203-373-1013

CYRIL F MULLINS

399 WHITE PLAINS RD, Trumbull, CT 06611

Trumbull funeral home founded in 1937 and now in its third generation, set on a historic estate with a pond, a covered bridge and a waterfall. Its accessible building has two parlors with fireplaces, and the home provides valet parking and a Cadillac fleet for the procession.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-203-372-6543

CREMATION SOCIETY OF CT., LLC

19 ELLINGTON AVE, Vernon, CT 06066

Vernon Rockville cremation provider, the second facility of the Cremation Society of Connecticut, which cremates in its own crematory at its Windsor facility. The Rockville building, remodeled in 2011, has a chapel with a fireplace sitting area beside it.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-888-909-2728

B C BAILEY FUNERAL HOME INC

273 S ELM ST, Wallingford, CT 06492

Wallingford funeral home of the Bailey Family Funeral Homes, tracing to an 1879 firm and at its present site since 1952, run by the fourth generation of the Bailey family. Streams services online and has a motorcycle hearse, a grief therapy dog and Parting Stones solidified remains.

BurialCremationGreen burialWater cremation (aquamation)Pre-need arrangements

1-203-265-1111

CHAPEL MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME

35-37 GROVE ST, Waterbury, CT 06710

Waterbury funeral home, family owned since 1961 and now run by the founder's daughter, a licensed funeral director and embalmer. Its on-site chapel has audio, video and live streaming; staff will make arrangements in the family's home, and the home offers aftercare counseling and live-streamed visits to a grave.

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

1-203-755-4370

COLONIAL DISCOUNT FUNERALS

270 W MAIN ST, Waterbury, CT 06702

Waterbury funeral home of Colonial Funerals, a family-owned firm that also serves Hamden from a second home there.

BurialPre-need arrangements

1-203-754-4000

EASTSIDE MEMORIAL, LLC

1987 E MAIN ST, Waterbury, CT 06705

Waterbury funeral home of Casey Funeral Homes & Cremation Care, opened in 2013, with a sibling home in Oakville. Has a weather-protected on-site courtyard where families gather with catering after a visitation or service, and a high-definition image backdrop shown behind the casket or urn.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-203-753-1550

MOLLOY FUNERAL HOME INC

906 FARMINGTON AVE, West Hartford, CT 06119

West Hartford funeral home founded in Hartford in 1909 and operated by the Molloy family, now in its third generation.

Pre-need arrangements

1-860-232-1322
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