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Bryan & Stacey Crain pictured with Bill & Betty Kuss, who will retire July 1st


Longtime Cape Girardeau funeral home changes hands

On July 1, a well known family in funeral service in this region will become owners of the 99 year old Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel of Cape. 

Crain Funeral Homes, in their 77th year and 3rd generation of service in southern Illinois, have purchased the Lorberg firm from the Kuss family. 

The spacious facility, located at 829 N. West End Blvd, 4 blocks north of Southeast Hospital, will be known as Crain Funeral Home.  Bryan A. Crain, a 22 year licensed funeral director and embalmer, explains the move to Cape Girardeau was their next natural step.  “Not only do my wife & I have family and friends in Cape, there are also many, many longtime families served by Crains in southern Illinois who have relocated to Cape over the past generation.  For many of those families, Crain is the only funeral home to whom they have ever entrusted with their loved one’s care.” 

Bryan’s wife and co-owner, Stacey, is excited about the many amenities that Crain’s can offer from the Cape funeral home.  “we will have the space available to host large services, after funeral dinners, children’s play area, pre-need workshops with luncheons, just to name a few.”   

Stacey Crain continued that “the Kuss’—Bill, Betty, and Jim, have done an excellent job as trustee of the pre-need plans made with the Lorberg firm.  All pre-need contracts and promises made by the Lorberg and Kuss owners will be honored by Crain.  Crain is licensed by the State of Missouri as the successor provider of all the Lorberg pre-need contracts.” 

In addition to the Cape Girardeau funeral home, Crain also has funeral homes, cemeteries, and monument companies in Alexander, Pulaski, Union, Jackson, and Williamson counties in Illinois.  The firm originated in 1932 in Tamms and Pulaski, IL.  Our mission statement sums up best the philosophy of generations of Crains-George and Marguerite, Bob and Elaine, Bill and Sharon—“to offer families the most complete and up to date options available at a cost that is always fair.”   

Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau will offer funeral and cremation services, pre-need planning and insurance, as well as monuments.  In addition, Crain is custodian of the past funeral records of Lorberg as well as Haman Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau. 

 


 

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