This abandoned funeral home opened back in 1975 and was approximately 30k square feet. The funeral home business was started by a pair of brothers who had already established a successful funeral home business in a different state.
The new funeral home was a successful business venture for the brothers as they had steady business, but throughout the 1990s, the owners ended up entangled in a legal battle with state authorities over proper maintenance of the building and surrounding property. This caused some tension amongst the brothers and the oldest brother ended up buying his younger brother out, making him the sole proprietor.
The owner continued to operate his funeral home business until his heath began to decline, a common theme with these small family owned funeral homes. Eventually The business was permanently closed in 2018. The funeral home featured a large chapel with plenty of falling ceiling tiles, a disgusting rotting lobby, a ransacked office, a file/record room containing all of the funeral homes past ceremonies, death certificates, and old obituaries, a casket display room which was unfortunately empty, and of course the always exciting embalming room, this one complete with a small morgue with 3 body trays. A bonus to this funeral home was an old rusted hearse, which we found inside the garage.
Exploring the funeral home was a lot of fun as we found a plethra of embalming tools and equipment left behind. There was even an embalming machine, formaldehyde, make up kits, urns, a gravity feeding embalming flask with stand, and a cool mint green slab. Although we enjoyed this amazing abandoned funeral home, sadly we also uncovered boxes of human remains, complete with their death certificates. This is always heartbreaking to find just sitting in an old abandoned building.
