This abandoned funeral home was first opened in 1976 by a local mortician. The mortician had already established a very successful funeral home in another town and saw potential for a second funeral home. He decided to renovate an old turn of the century family home into his new funeral parlor. The funeral home operated out of the home for many years and did prove to be a success in it’s early years. Unfortunately, by the 2000’s, the funeral home began to suffer as business slowed and population in the area declined. The funeral home closed for good around 2014. It has been abandoned ever since. When we walked into the abandoned funeral home from the main entrance, you had a large living room area that was converted into a waiting area for family and loved ones and chapel for the actual funeral services. The waiting area and chapel had everything left behind from the furniture, to the magazines, to the casket display cases, to the rows of chairs in the funeral home chapel. The funeral home office was located in an adjoining room behind the main entrance door. The funeral home office had old obituaries on display all across the desk. The embalming room and visitation room were located off a back hallway near the chapel area of the funeral home. These rooms were no different than the front rooms, as they also had everything left behind in each of them. The embalming room featured the porcelain slab with neck restraint, tons of different and unique autopsy tools, embalming fluid, makeup, skin and tissue filler, and even had the mortician’s medical degree still hanging on the wall. The visitation room featured a few gurneys, some floral arrangements, and an urn that was used for cremated remains. A bonus to this abandoned funeral home was found as we walked around the back of the funeral home. An old broken down Cadillac hearse was found in a collapsed area of the garage, making this abandoned funeral home one of the best explores to date.
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