24 funeral homes and crematories offering veterans services in Maine, 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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24 funeral homes and crematories offering veterans services in Maine
Arundel funeral and cremation home with a specialty in shipping remains abroad to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its green burials go to a local green burial cemetery with a burial shroud, and it sets up Maine mortuary trusts for advance plans, including irrevocable trusts for Maine Care purposes.
Augusta office of Funeral Alternatives, a locally owned firm that has served Augusta, Lewiston and Brunswick since 2002. Cremated remains are generally ready in five to seven business days, prearrangements are placed in a mortuary trust, and its list of towns served runs from Yarmouth to Boothbay and Vassalboro.
Family-owned Bangor funeral and cremation service in a Civil War-era Italianate home whose function rooms have 12- to 14-foot ceilings and marble fireplaces. The Kiley family firm, founded in 1963 and with a second location in Brewer, assists families with veterans' benefits and with burial in the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery.
Belfast cremation service started in 1985 as the first statewide complete cremation service, which also arranges memorial services, burials, private family viewings and attendance at the crematory during the cremation. It offers cremation by alkaline hydrolysis and simple and green burial options, and serves all of Maine.
Belfast funeral home run by the Riposta family since 1978, when the couple bought the town's funeral home, with its own crematory, Maine Coast Crematory.
Biddeford funeral home formed in 1993 by the merger of three local firms, the oldest of which opened in the 1890s. Its building, rebuilt from a former bowling alley, has two chapels that together seat 300, a reception room for 50 and 145 parking spaces. It offers witnessed cremations and runs Hope Heals, a ten-week grief support group.
Family-owned Brewer funeral home founded by the Kiley family in 1963, in an early 1900s house modified to be accessible to all; with a Bangor location it operates as Kiley & Foley Funeral Service. It assists families with veterans' benefits and with burial in the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery.
Buxton funeral home and cremation service opened in 2014, with a second location in East Waterboro and a sister home in Cornish. It serves families from York, Cumberland and Oxford counties, and arrangements can be made at the funeral home or in the family's own home.
Family-owned Dover-Foxcroft funeral home that traces its beginnings to a late-1800s undertaking parlor and has stood at its present location since 1934. One family has owned it since 1957, with a third-generation funeral director now its general manager, and it serves Guilford, Milo and Greenville as well. It provided ambulance service for southern Piscataquis County until 1971.
Head office of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Homes, a Downeast Maine firm with funeral homes in Ellsworth, Machias and Milbridge and the motto "Services in accordance with your wishes." Office hours are by appointment, and staff answer calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Ellsworth home of Jordan-Fernald Funeral Homes, a family business whose undertaking began in 1860, with a chapel built in 2003 that seats 150 and has a separate area for family seating. Adjacent reception rooms have a kitchen, the home produces memorial DVDs, and it has served the Blue Hill Peninsula since the Blue Hill location closed in 2018.
Houlton funeral home owned and operated by the Dunn family since 1908, when the business opened as a funeral service beside a furniture store. The family opened its present home, with a chapel, in 1939. It is a member of Selected Independent Funeral Homes and keeps a casket and urn showroom.
Lewiston funeral home founded in 1925, in an 1886 house built for the overseer of the Pepperell Mill, with Italian mosaic tile fireplaces and a carriage house converted into a visitation room. It has a reception room for gatherings after a service and arranges green burials at Cedar Brook Burial Grounds in Limington and Baldwin Hill Conservation Cemetery in Winthrop.
Machias home of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Homes, a Downeast Maine firm headquartered in Ellsworth with a third home in Milbridge and the motto "Services in accordance with your wishes." The Machias home takes no mail delivery, and its office hours are by appointment.
Mechanic Falls funeral home opened in 1966 as Gallant-Raymond Funeral Home, now one of the Chandler Funeral Homes. It occupies an old New England home with a glassed-in porch, seats 175 to 200 for services, shows video tributes on a 42-inch screen, and keeps a selection room of caskets and urns with a monument display.
Milbridge home of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Homes, a Downeast Maine firm headquartered in Ellsworth with a third home in Machias and the motto "Services in accordance with your wishes." The Milbridge home takes no mail delivery, and its office hours are by appointment.
Mount Desert funeral home whose chapel seats 125 and looks through a large bay window over a field to Somes Pond, with a large open room for receptions and selection rooms for burial and cremation. Five generations of the Fernald family have run the business since its founding in 1860, and it serves all of Hancock County.
Portland funeral, cremation and memorial event center of 9,899 square feet that continues the firm's former State Street home. It has a reception area with an outdoor patio, partners with local caterers for food and drink, and offers every cremation family a private goodbye.
Richmond funeral home, Kincer since 1998, whose line began with Flagg Funeral Service and furniture making in the 1800s and passed through Roberts Funeral Home in 1924 and Jepson Funeral Home in 1962. For veterans it obtains the burial flag and a bronze, marble or granite marker and handles the paperwork for burial at Maine Veterans Cemetery.
Rumford funeral home whose staff live in the community and are available 24 hours a day, now under the same owner as Chandler Funeral Homes of South Paris. Its policy requires embalming for a visitation.
