Facilities

While we conduct most of our services in our Fulton location, we haven’t forgotten our roots in Auxvasse. There has been a Maupin Funeral Home in Auxvasse, Missouri for over eighty years.

Our funeral home in Fulton is a modern structure designed to be functional. It is handicapped accessible. It is where all the embalming is done and most funeral arrangements are made. We have a spacious chapel with seating for over 200, two visitation rooms, and a selection room (which contains over twenty caskets for family to choose from). We also have a lounge, complete with coffee bar and soda machine so families and friends have a place to relax.

Our preparation room is state-of-the-art so that we may do our very best in creating a pleasant memory picture for the loved one’s family. Our offices contain the latest in electronics, faxes, computers, etc., to aid us in the many details which must be worked out prior to a service. Every time a stranger comes in they compliment us on how lovely our funeral home is.

Preplanning

Maupin Funeral Home pioneered pre-planning funeral services in the Fulton area. Before prearranging came into vogue, Maupin Funeral Home had been doing it for over 20 years. We began in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s to pre-arrange and pre-fund funeral services. We still have some of the original contracts in force today. Talk about a wise decision; those families who pre-funded back in the 1960’s are going to get their services for a fourth, or less, of what a comparable service would cost today.

Benefits of Preplanning

Families often have to make funeral decisions during the most traumatic time of their lives. I wish I could recall all the times I’ve heard a family say, “I wonder what Mom would want,” or Dad, or Grandma. Pre-planning takes that uncertainty out of the picture. With pre-planning the family knows exactly what their loved one wanted. It makes a very difficult time a little easier. There is no guess work. Everything is spelled out in advance, right down to the music they picked out for their service. Remember that a funeral can be pre-planned without pre-payment, but pre-funding has many advantages.

Cost Factors

There are many factors in the cost of a funeral service. The casket the family selects, the dates and times of visitation, and outer burial container (vaults or graveliners) all play a role in the final cost to the family, but the two greatest cost factors are our personnel and the facility itself. Much like a hospital, we have to maintain enough personnel on a 24-hour basis to handle a worst case scenario. It doesn’t make any difference if it’s midnight, two in the morning, Sunday, Christmas, the Fourth of July, or anytime. When you pick up the phone, we are there. In order to serve the community we sacrifice much in the way of personal lives, but this is the path we have chosen, and we do it gladly. When the person on the other end of the phone needs us, we are there, ready to help. This is our calling. Our “undertaking.”

Cremation Services

At the Maupin Funeral Home we offer a wide range of cremation services. We have direct cremations, where the deceased is picked up from the place of death and brought back to the funeral home. The remains are cleaned and dressed in appropriate clothing, and taken to the crematory. The cremains are picked-up by our staff and delivered to the family for final disposition. We have cremation services that use a rental cremation casket, so the family can have a visitation, and a funeral service before the cremation. We offer pre-planning and pre-payment on all our cremation services.

Aftercare/Grief Counseling

Our staff maintains a relationship with each family we serve. We will make follow-up calls to ensure that they are doing okay, and that any insurance, Veterans’ Administration or Social Security work we did for them is progressing in a satisfactory manner.

We have a number of organizations in Fulton which offer post-death counseling for family members who are having an especially hard time coming to terms with the death of a loved one. We refer these individuals to experienced counselors who can help them work through their grief. Many times they will return to us, often just to chat, sometimes they will indicate that they are having problems and ask for help. A good ear and a shoulder to cry on are all some of them need to go on with their lives. Just knowing someone is available to listen and someone cares about them means a lot.

Remember, we’ve known some of these families for three or four generations. We may have taken care of great-grandma, grandma, mom, or dad, and for some unfortunate families we have taken care of their children when death comes early in life. They are not a number, but friends and neighbors we care deeply about.