funeral home

noun

|Updated on: 17 Jun 2018

Definition of funeral home

: an establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body, and for funerals — called also funeral parlor

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Recent Examples of funeral home from the Web

The family will receive visitors Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

— j. scott trubey, ajc, "Roy Cooper, 91, helped Hartsfield-Jackson become international airport," 14 June 2018
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 10.

— hartford courant, courant.com, "Kenneth J. Zawadski," 9 June 2018
Hancock’s family will host visitations at the funeral home from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

— yvonne wenger, baltimoresun.com, "Investigation into fatal trench collapse at Baltimore park could take weeks," 8 June 2018
Friends will be received at the funeral home on Thursday from 10:00 AM -11:30 AM.

— Sun-Sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 6/5," 5 June 2018
The bride’s parents are co-owners of Stone Tributes by Lisovetsky, a monument company, and the owners of Lisovetsky Memorial Home, a funeral home, both in Brooklyn.

— New York Times, "Vlada Lisovetsky, Joshua Epstein," 3 June 2018
Later that night, Avendano’s body was laid out in an open casket in a funeral home on South Broad.

— thomas fox parry, The Atlantic, "The Death of a Gig Worker," 1 June 2018
Their Army casualty assistance officer, who had been assigned to help them, was on the phone with the county sheriff arranging an escort from the airport to the funeral home.

— greg jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, "Imperfect answers: A JBER soldier was killed in action, and his parents ask why," 27 May 2018
Meanwhile, funeral homes offered services to their families.

— becky jacobs, Post-Tribune, "'Done and over with': Families find closure after Darren Vann, who killed 7 in Gary area, sentenced to life," 25 May 2018

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