Former Funeral Homes of Allen County, Indiana

  1. ACGSI Funeral Card Collection has several thousand donated funeral cards including recent funeral cards from several local funeral homes.
  2. Current Funeral Home Google Map locations near Fort Wayne
  3. Current Funeral Homes of Allen County on a separate page
  4. Funeral Home Records, Fort Wayne, Indiana at ACGSI.org states: This compilation of funeral record indexes contains entries from the following works:
    Fort Wayne Public Library. C. M. Sloan & Sons Mortuary Records, 1903-1974.
    Fort Wayne: 1967. Fort Wayne Public Library. Mungovan & Sons Mortuary Records, 1912-1963.
    Fort Wayne: 1966. Fort Wayne Public Library. Wellman's Funeral Home Mortuary Records, 1917-1964. Vol. 1. Fort Wayne: 1966.
    Hahn, Margaret E. Marquart Mortuary Records, 1909-1939. Monroeville: 1962.
    Lauer, Linda. Supplement to C. M. Sloan & Funeral Home Mortuary Records, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1926-1929. Fort Wayne: 1976.
    Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Klaehn Funeral Home Mortuary Records, 1876-1964. Fort Wayne: 1966.
    Shively, Judy. C. M. Sloan & Sons Funeral Home Mortuary Records, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1965-1974. Fort Wayne: 1976.
    Tom Mungovan Funeral Home. Tom Mungovan Funeral Home Records, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fort Wayne: 1987.
    Wilkins, Cleo Goff. Peltier Mortuary Records of Fort Wayne, Indiana: January 1874-August 1938 (inclusive). Vol. 1, A-K. Fort Wayne: 1964.
    This complilation of funeral record indexes is a research tool and not a substitute for primary source records.

Page 208-209 Undertakers - Embalmers in the Telephone directory, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1924, Publisher Fort Wayne, Ind. : Home Telephone & Telegraph on Archive.org

Three Fort Wayne listings on page 100 of The national directory of morticians by National Directory of Morticians, Publication date 1948 on Archive.org.

Ashley-Wilson, Julian H. Schone & Son and The Tom Mongovan Funeral Homes. Harper & Son Funeral Home in New Haven is on page 108.

Four Fort Wayne listings on page 121 of The national directory of morticians by National Directory of Morticians, Publication date 1949 on Archive.org.
D.O. McComb & Sons, The Tom Mungovan, Mungovan & Sons Mortuary, and Harry Wilson Funeral Homes. Harper & Son Funeral Home in New Haven is on page 131.

Ankenbruck Funeral Home

Brindle Funeral Home

Yoder, Indiana

Register of Funerals, William Brindle, Undertaker, Yoder, Indiana, April 1891 to December 1914

Ensign C. Carrington Funeral Home

Harlan, Indiana
Records from 1892 to 1922
E. C. Carrington family records and funeral register 1892-1922, Harlan, Indiana book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Chalfant Undertaking Company on pages 142-143 of the Telephone directory, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1924, Publisher Fort Wayne, Ind. : Home Telephone & Telegraph on Archive.org

Chalfant-Perry Funeral Home

801 West Berry, Street View photo from Google Maps

Beautiful house on the corner of Berry and Van Buren.
Records from 1914 to 1964
Chalfant-Perry Funeral Home mortuary records, 1914-1964 book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

See William Sherman Cutshall information.

  1. April 27, 2014 photo of Chalfant-Cutshall posted by Daniel Baker on Flickr with history of the house and funeral home. Dan states The Chalfant - Perry Funeral Home continued on until 1980 when it was purchased by Klaehn Funeral Home.
  2. Photos and discussion January 18, 2019 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
  3. Photos and discussion August 11, 2023 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.

Klaehn, Fahl & Melton Funeral Homes (est. 1876)

6424 Winchester Road, since 1991.
Fort Wayne, IN 46819
Website: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/indiana/fort-wayne/klaehn-fahl-melton-funeral-home/4120
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KlaehnFahlMeltonFH/

Klaehn, Fahl and Melton Funeral Home

Klaehn, Fahl and Melton Funeral Home by Daniel Baker taken December 19, 2018 on flickr
From his album: Fort Wayne: Klaehn Funeral Home (1926-2018)
Description: Perhaps no other funeral home in Fort Wayne has connected with so many people than this location. The building at 420 West Wayne Street was designed by local architects Wing & Mahurin (Bass Mansion, old City Hall) and built as a home for the Hon. Robert and Clara Bell in 1893. It was sold in 1926 to Klaehn Funeral Home. Another local architect, A.M. Strauss (Lincoln Tower, Embassy Theatre and the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum) designed an addition on the west side of the home that was completed in 1935. The funeral home opened several locations including South Anthony and Winchester Road. Eventually it became known as Klaehn, Fahl and Melton Funeral Homes and part of the Dignity Memorial group. In late 2018 this location at 420 West Wayne was put up for sale for nearly $700,000.

  1. October 26, 2018 post by ARCH, Inc. on Facebook:

    "The three-story building contains 14,130 square feet and features original hand-carved woodwork, fixtures and other historic features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and designated a local historic district in 1995, meaning it can’t be torn down or have its exterior altered without the city’s permission."

    Their 420 West Wayne Street building closed October 1, 2018. Designed by the prominent firm of Wing and Mahurin and built in 1893 as the home of attorney Robert Clark Bell and his wife Clara, the limestone Romanesque building at 420 W. Wayne St. had been a funeral home for the past 92 years. Operations were transferred to other local facilities. Several photos were in It’s historic, unique and ornate — and this former downtown funeral home could be yours by Kevin Leininger October 26, 2018 The News-Sentinel newspaper.

  2. Founded 1876, John Julius Klaehn was born in Saxony in Germany and with his Alsatian wife Wilhelmina immigrated to the United States in 1852. Around 1861 or 1862 he established his own cabinet and furniture manufacturing business on Harrison Street in Fort Wayne. Klaehn’s West Main Street shop, which featured a large and distinctive sign, was a local landmark. In 1876 Klaehn became a junior partner to Henry B. Hall in Hall & Klaehn, an undertaking establishment. Copied from Klaehn, Fahl, & Melton Funeral Homes at Indiana History.org archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
  3. Klaehn Funeral Home mortuary records, 1876-1964 6 volumes, 1966, are at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Library.cat.org book cover image.
  4. See Allen County Lookups
  5. January 8, 2023 post by The Bell Mansion LLC on Facebook:

    January 8, 2023 shared Jeff Walker post For those who never got to see what the Bell Mansion looked like when it was funeral home for 93 years.. here you go!

Marquart Funeral Home

Monroeville, Indiana
Records from 1945 to 1977
Marquart Mortuary records, Monroeville, Indiana (dates as 1909-1939) book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Genealogy records of the Marquart Funeral Home, Monroeville, Indiana book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Histories of funeral homes in Monroeville, Indiana, and funeral records from Painter Brothers, Painter and Marquart and Marquart Funeral Homes with a short biography of E. Leslie Marquart book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Micheaux Funeral Home

1338 Eliza Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46803
Ellis Micheaux owner of Fort Wayne's first African American Funeral Home died in 1952. Continued for the next 50 years by his wife, then closed in November of 2002, due to her failing health. See Josie Lee Micheaux February 17, 2007 obituary.

Oetting Funeral Home

Harlan, Indiana
Now Hockemeyer Funeral Home
Records of Oetting Funeral Home, Harlan, Ind., 1922-1964 book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Painter Brothers Funeral Home

Monroeville, Indiana
Records from 1908 to 1940

Painter & Marquart Funeral Home

Monroeville, Indiana
Records from 1940 to 1945

Peltier Funeral Home

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Peltier Funeral Home, Coffin Sales, 1862-1877, Fort Wayne, Indiana book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Peltier Mortuary Coffin Sales, 1862-1877, Fort Wayne, Indiana at ACGSI.org

Peltier mortuary records of Fort Wayne, Indiana : : January 1874-August 1938 (inclusive) book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Pickett Funeral Service

1628 E. Pontiac Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46803

Prairie Grove Cemetery Association Incorporated

6312 Old Trail Road
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46809
260.747.4070

Scheumann Funeral Homes

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Records from 1899 to 1951
Scheumann Funeral Home mortuary records, 1899-1951 book at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana- Search Online Index at Indiana Genealogical Society

Julian H. Schone Funeral Home (1947)

Jule Schone Funeral Home
Jule Schone Funeral Home
1947 ad

618-620 East Washington Boulevard

Jule Schone and Madalyn L. Schone, R.N., Licensed Funeral Director and Lady.

1947 ad posted in comment to January 7, 2023 post on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook and page 100 in ebook above.

Schone & Veith

53 East Berry

Page 62 Fort Wayne illustrated Publication date 1897 on Archive.org.
Faded version of same street image titled: SCHONE & VEITH UNDERTAKERS, ALDINE BLOCK, 53 EAST BERRY STREET, FORT WAYNE IN: EXTERIOR ON BERRY STREET REPRODUCED FROM PUBLISHED SOURCE. SHOWING MEN IN DOORWAY, HORSE-DRAWN HEARSE, NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS.SIGN K P (KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS?) in the Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library. Randy Harter comment to this advertisement February 11, 2024 post on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook said this building, which burned down, sat where the parking east of the Elektron Bldg is today.

Wellmans Funeral Home

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Records from 1965 to 1968
Funeral Home Records, Fort Wayne, Indiana from Peltier Mortuary Records 1874-1938 and Wellman's Funeral Home Mortuary Records 1917-1964 at Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana
Mortuary records, Wellman's Funeral Home, Fort Wayne, Indiana 3 volumes, 1917-1964, 1965-1968 books at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Augustus Wych Roberson

Eel River Township, Allen County, Indiana
Register of Augustus Wych Roberson, coffin maker and undertaker, from 1858 to 1932

Former Funeral Homes
without recorded histories

Eikenberry Funeral Home

2730 East State Blvd.
Fort Wayne, Indiana

For while the colonial structure at Beacon and State was a medical office building it was originally built to serve those who were beyond the ministrations of health professionals. It was originally built in the 1950's to serve as the north chapel for the Getz & Eikenberry Funeral Home. The main location of the funeral home, founded as Getz and Cahill in 1908, was located at 2300 Fairfield Avenue and Creighton Avenue.

The building was only used as a funeral home for a brief time. The north funeral home closed a relatively short time after opening and it then assumed the role of housing medical service. The Eikenberry Funeral Home was incorporated in 1958 and was operated at 2318 Fairfield Avenue until 1974. Copied from Mitch Harper's Fort Wayne Observed blog archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine when the building was donated by Parkview Hospital to the Fort Wayne Police Department for new Northeast outpost. His answer to a comment about Harper Funeral Home in New Haven: great-grandfather founded the firm in 1889. I grew up on the second floor of the funeral home. My brother continues the tradition of Harper family service in its 120th year.

Sanders Funeral Home

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Williams Mortuary Service

Closed in November 2017

2414 Strathmore Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46803

Mortuary and Obituary Records

At the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library

Allen County Genealogical Society. Allen County, Indiana, E. Harper & Son Funeral Home, Inc., New Haven. [1987]. 201 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.202 N548a

Allen County Genealogical Society. Allen and Wells Counties, Indiana, Elzey-Dickey-Haggard Funeral Home, Waynedale and Ossian. [1987]. 503 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425aLe

Fort Wayne Public Library. C.M. Sloan and Sons Funeral Home mortuary records, 1903-1964. 1967. 2 volumes.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425cm

Fort Wayne Public Library. Klaehn Funeral Home mortuary records, 1876-1964. 1966. 6 volumes.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425k

Fort Wayne Public Library. Peltier Funeral home, Fort Wayne, coffin sales, 1862-1877. 1969. 286 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.202 F745f

Fort Wayne Public Library. Index to obituary records as found in the News-Sentinel and the Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, 1966-1970. 1971. 291 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.202 F745i

Fort Wayne Public Library. Tri-state obituaries (Indiana - Ohio - Michigan). (1970-1976). 6 volumes.
Genealogy Division, 977.2 T819t

Harter, Fayne E. Records of Oetting Funeral Home, Harlan, Ind., 1922-1964. 1965. 106 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425hr

Marquart Mortuary records, Monroeville, Indiana (1909-1939). 1962. 61 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425hm

Mungoven Mortuary records, 1912-1963
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425mu

Newhard, Malinda E.E. E.C.Carrington family records and funeral register 1892-1922, Harlan, Indiana ... 1976.
Genealogy Division, 929.2 C318n 1976

Palmer, Louise M. Index to The-state obituaries (Indiana, Ohio, Michigan) from the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 1977. 1978. 99 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.2 P174i

Palmer, Louise M. Index to Tri-state obituaries (Indiana, Ohio, Michigan) from the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 1978. 1979. 101 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.2 P174ix

Scheumann funeral home, mortuary records, 1899-1951. Fort Wayne Public Library. 1971. 331 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425s

Shively, Judy. C.M. Sloan and Sons Funeral Home mortuary records, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1965-1974. 1976. 203 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425sh

Wellman's Funeral Home Mortuary Records, 1917-1964. 1966. 208 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425we
Wilkens, Cleo G. Obituary records as found in Fort Wayne newspapers, 1841-1900. 1962. 434 pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 A425wi

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