A List of Known Ouachita Parish Funeral Homes

I decided to make a rough list of known Funeral Homes that have popped up in Ouachita Parish and roughly when they started. I know this list is incomplete. This is just what I found. Most of the records for them have been lost over the years.

Dixie Funeral Home (Ca. 1938 – 1943) Sold to Hall Funeral Home

Hall Funeral Home ( Ca. 1943 -1959) Sold to Hixson Brothers Funeral Home

Soard & Martin (1923)

W.B. Corry & Co. (1926 – 1928)

Corry-Williams Funeral Home (1928 – 1929)

Corry-Davis Funeral Home (1929 – 1932)

Davis-Lawhead Funeral Home (1932 – 1949)  Bought by Peters Funeral Home

Mulhearn Funeral Home (1931 – Present)

Peters Funeral Home (1884 –  1967) * Oldest Funeral Home in Ouachita Parish

Kilpatrick Funeral Home (West Monroe 1952, Monroe 1977 – Present) *First in West Monroe

Williams and Morehead

Williams & Robinson Funeral Home (Ca. 1924 – )

National Funeral Home (1934 – ?)

Hixson Brothers Funeral Home (Ca. 1949 – )

Griffin Funeral Home (Ca. 2009 – Present)

African American

NOTE:  Up until black owned funeral homes were established, Peters Funeral Home took care of all funerals.

Lamothe Undertaking Company (1924 – 1963) *first black owned F.H. in Ouachita Parish

Douglas Funeral Home  (1937 – ?)

Acme (Ca. 1933 – 1975) bought by Miller Funeral Home

Miller Funeral Home (1935 – Present)

Burton-Bowie Funeral Home (Ca. 1958 – 1959)

Hunt’s Mortuary / Hunt’s Golden State Funeral Home (Ca. 1959 – ?)

Richardson Funeral Home (? – Present)

Simms & Gundy (1962 – )

Funerals by McFarland (2000 – Present)

Good Citizen Funeral Home (Ca. 1942 – )

Williams Undertaking Company (Ca. 1930 – )

Christian Funeral Home (Ca. 1938 – )

Hester Central State Funeral Home (1979 – Present)