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Home→Funeral Homes→Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements

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

Hugeback Johnson Funeral Home

508 Maple Street, Elma, IA 50628

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-393-2461

Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services,Inc.

1615 N. 15th St., Fort Dodge, IA 50501

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.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-515-576-7128

Hugeback - Johnson Funeral Home & Crematory

225 East Main Street, Fredericksburg, IA 50630

Family-owned Fredericksburg 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 southern Chickasaw County and the Bremer County edge near Sumner, with a funeral director available 24 hours a day.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-394-4334

Morris Funeral Home

001 South Industrial Park Rd., Garnavillo, IA 52049

Garnavillo funeral home in a facility built in 1999, the former Tuecke-Allyn home under new owners since 2023, run with sister homes in Guttenberg, Dyersville, Monticello and Holy Cross. Arranges limited cremation and monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-563-766-5002

Loess Hills Funeral and Cremation Center -Glenwood

112 North Vine, Glenwood, IA 51534

Glenwood home of Loess Hills Funeral & Cremation Center, which serves southwest Iowa families from Carson, Glenwood and Malvern. Its staff helps families choose a monument or other permanent memorial, and a licensed preneed agent handles prearrangement planning and aftercare support.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-712-527-5241

Schultz Funeral Home

611 Fulton Street, Grand Mound, IA 52751

Grand Mound funeral home of Schultz Funeral Homes, the former Kelly Funeral Home bought in 1975, with a sister chapel in DeWitt. 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.

Pre-need arrangements

1-563-847-3271

Cox-Smith Funeral and Cremation Service, Inc

135 1st Avenue W., Grinnell, IA 50112

Grinnell funeral and cremation home established in 2019, serving Poweshiek and Jasper counties including Kellogg, Malcom, Searsboro and Brooklyn. Its event center and reception hall hosts luncheons after a service or meals during visitation, and the home also handles monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-641-236-5580

Rieken Duhn Funeral Home

300 Main Street, Griswold, IA 51535

Griswold funeral home in the building where the town's funeral home opened in 1930, renamed Rieken Duhn Funeral Home in 2017, with a sister home in Oakland. A basement overflow area seats 80 more, with closed-circuit television, and the home offers bronze markers and monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-712-778-4315

Morris Funeral Home

207 South 1st Street, Guttenberg, IA 52052

Guttenberg funeral home in a facility built in 1996, the former Tuecke-Allyn home under new owners since 2023, run with sister homes in Garnavillo, Dyersville, Monticello and Holy Cross. Arranges limited cremation and monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-563-252-1842

Rash-Gude Funeral Home

1220 Main Street, Hamburg, IA 51640

Hamburg funeral home of Gude Funeral Homes, a family business whose Nebraska City mortuary opened in 1955 and which later bought homes in Hamburg and Riverton. Offers advance planning that includes travel and child or grandchild protection plans.

Pre-need arrangements

1-712-382-1024

Kramer-Morris Funeral Home

5754 Maple Road, Holy Cross, IA 52053

Holy Cross funeral home in a building purchased and renovated for funeral service in 1994, run with sister homes in Dyersville, Monticello, Guttenberg and Garnavillo. Arranges limited cremation and monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-563-870-2206

Oolman Funeral Home

201 2nd Avenue, Hospers, IA 51238

Hospers chapel of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Vander Ploeg Funeral Home here in 2001. The building, put up in 2001-02, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room and a chapel for 75. The firm brings remains home to northwest Iowa from anywhere in the United States or abroad.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-712-752-8123

Oolman Funeral Home

319 Black Forest Road, Hull, IA 51239

Hull funeral home of Oolman Funeral Homes, run by the Oolman family since 1977, which bought the Kraai Funeral Home here in 1983. The building, constructed in 1996, is fully handicapped accessible, with a reception room, a children's room, a chapel seating 100 and parking for 30 vehicles.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-712-439-2164

Christensen-Van Houten Funeral Homes, Ida Grove

321 Second Street, Ida Grove, IA 51445

Ida Grove funeral home, one of the firm's three homes with Battle Creek and Odebolt, continuing a funeral service tradition begun in 1908. Designs markers and monuments with a computer-generated rendering to check before ordering, and makes tribute videos from family photos for the visitation.

CremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-712-364-2727

Overton Funeral Home

501 W Ashland Avenue, Indianola, IA 50125

Indianola funeral home in its present building since 1926, with a funeral chapel added in 1963; services can be streamed live through the obituary page when the family chooses.

Pre-need arrangements

1-515-961-5121

Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service

2720 Muscatine Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240

Iowa City funeral home with an onsite crematory that funeral homes without crematory facilities also use for their families. It holds receptions at the funeral home, has a children's play room, and cares for young children who die without charging the family for its services.

CremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-319-338-1132

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

309 W. Main St., Knoxville, IA 50138

Knoxville funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Lacona, Melcher-Dallas and Milo. Helps families apply for veterans' burial allowances, a Presidential Memorial Certificate and military headstones, and can arrange a life celebrant for a service outside a religious setting.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-842-5126

Locke In La Porte City

606 East Main Street, La Porte City, IA 50651

La Porte City funeral home with a chapel in a traditional funeral home setting, formerly La Porte City Funeral Home and part of a fourth-generation family-owned Waterloo firm since 2013.

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

1-319-342-3131

Pierschbacher Funeral Home

104 S. Washington Ave. Ste 1, Lacona, IA 50139

Lacona funeral home, one of five under the same name with Chariton, Knoxville, Melcher-Dallas and Milo. Helps families apply for veterans' burial allowances, a Presidential Memorial Certificate and military headstones, and can arrange a life celebrant for a service outside a religious setting.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-641-534-9957

Turner Jenness Family Funeral Homes

12 Beachcomber Drive, Lake Park, IA 51347

Lake Park funeral home, one of three Turner Jenness homes with Spirit Lake and Milford, under the Turner Jenness name since a 2010 change of ownership. Sells and installs custom cemetery monuments and headstones through its Lakes Monuments division.

Pre-need arrangements

1-712-336-2575
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