Funeral Home Tours: Stark Memorial Funeral Home 

This Stark funeral home is remarkable

The keepsake candle and flower seeds are such a heartfelt gift to for the family. Truly special.

Love seeing locally owned & operated funeral homes. They have a genuine vibe that is missing from the corporate run homes.

Beautiful place and beautifully renovated and updated. Has a touch of modern, but still has small town charm. If I was coming here for my loved one's arrangements, I'd feel very comfortable and right at home. Akron Ohio has a few slightly dated looking funeral homes (wonderful places I'm sure) but nothing wrong with modernizing just a little. Stark Memorial is indeed very bright and welcoming, and that is such an appreciated aspect to a funeral home. I love the Heaven Sent candle! And him asking to have a scent of what heaven would smell like. You all do such important things in your community. Thank you for your kindness and Care.

It's a beautiful upgrade. More in line with celebrating a death than the old school all black, formal and a year's worth of mourning. This is much more loving.

That was an impressive tour. Seeing that gift of a heaven sent candle made me cry. This owner really checked all the boxes.

This is a gorgeous funeral home, it has so much positive character. The woodworking of the doors and doorways are so beautifully done. I just love it. Dark and muted tones do tend to bring out more sadness .

So beautiful

He has done a beautiful job in making a modern, welcoming space. I also loved the pictures and history on the wall.

Those candles and seed packets are such a gift. I'm sure families love and appreciate them so much.

Love this; my dad passed away in July, and most everyone was from out-of-town, so we held the funeral in the morning, then came back from the burial and had a catered event at the funeral home. The funeral home was decorated in similar fashion and they provided catering as none of us had any idea who to call to set it up. So much stress was taken off of me as I was the family member in charge of final arrangements.

Kari, It come as No surprize that you are associated with such wonderful fold. This Funeral Director is such a wonderful guy.

Cool! Reminds me of all the cool stuff Nathan Morris is doing with Morris Family Services in Kentucky.

I love the historical stuff they found in the attic

My husband was born in Salem, OH. He was a Navy kid and moved a lot, but Salem has always been home. It’s a very small world.

Here in Ontario Canada funeral home owners can own crematoriums too. In my hometown of Sudbury there is a funeral home with three locations, a crematory and a flower shop. The flower shop shares a parking lot with their main chapel.

I do like the changes. I wish the lighting aside where the casket and other places were replaced also. I remember seeing those 40 years ago in funeral homes.

I had a friend that lived in Salem, OHIO that pasted away and her funeral was at this funeral home. That was back in January 2023.fromAkron, OHIO it was very nice funeral home.

Beautiful funeral home. It doesn't have that creepy look you see in a traditional funeral home. Even the crematory is gorgeous.

I like that FH. It seems more like when they used to have viewings in the home. I wish him luck in finding a 20s hearse. A lot were Studebakers .

Very beautifully done Kari,tyvvm for the informational tour,also the artifacts from the history of the Funeral Parlor,in the same location of 102yrs,serving their community. Very well done 👏

Beautiful home. Soft seating everywhere. He cracked a code there. All of the funerals I have ever attended seating was lacking, especially comfortable seating. I like to be comfortable when grieving. Hard chairs and benches just make me want to get it all over with.

Also I loved that he offered Parting Stones as an option for his clients.

Thanks KARI for doing this interview from Stark Funeral home. From AKRON, OHIO ❤❤❤😊😊😊

I wished I could visit my dad ,trouble is he was laid to rest in Costa Rica .Thanks to my stepmother she was sending us a video of his open casket and a photo just before passing ,safe to say I want no part of her or the country anymore .Thanks for the look into what most of us don't often see .

I love the candle and seeds. What a wonderful idea. Glad to see a locally owned funeral home. The crematorium area is super nice, the area around the retort isn't "scary". Love the marble and who doesn't like diamond plate. Thanks for the tour.

Totally beautiful I’ve never seen one like this one before everything looks amazing yet peaceful and well lighted which is what caught my eyes it doesn’t make you feel sad compared to the older closed windows with all the darkness inside. Sure wish there was one here the area where you can go to and eat while staying at the funeral home is beautiful.

Beautiful!!! Love the hearse, too!

I lived by Salem, ohio in Berlin center! I love your videos kari! Thank you for your time and kindness of doing this video of the funeral parlor! From summit county, ohio alison destefano

Absolutely love the candle idea!!

Great Video Kari

Beautiful!

Beautiful updates

wow this is awesome! I love what did it's so comforting, airy and bright! I also love how he cooperated the history of the place and it definitely doesn't have the traditional funeral home look. he said he was looking for an old hurst, I wonder if he knows about Hemmings motor news, they have all types of very old vehicles he might find what he is looking for in there. thank you for sharing the video🙂🙂

Very beautiful FH!

Absolutely Awesome And Beautiful!!🌹💜 I Just love watching your videos!! It’s so educational!! My husband is a licensed emblems his work is so awesome he’s one of the best in our county area!!💜💜

Lovely place.

Those old recordings that look like an old 8 track, but those are really carts that were used by radio stations to play music and commercials. I'll bet they contained commercials for the funeral home back in the day.

Can't wait to see the video,let's go with Kari right now

It is definitely important to adapt to the current market trends in any business, but especially in the Death Care industry.

In Germany, funeral homes are more like offices. In the US, funeral homes look like private living rooms.

Nice space

I enjoyed your video

Very nice

I went to Miami Dade College for Funeral Service Ed.😊😊😊😊😊😊

I ❤Family run Funeral Homes. I hate SCI Corperation.

Very interesting and very nice changes. Kari, are you. Preg?

i saw A SIGN in the crematory jimmy hoffa was here

I lived in 2 Funeral Homes.

Yeah I really believe the Ads. Ppl with mail you cash of 21,k a month. S mH. Real appropriate for this Post. Not very bright adept. ADS on RU-vid. SMH.

Thanks for sharing but over the years I have been in many funeral homes in my state. At one funeral home, i even purchased a memory book just for fun. I no longer have a need to visit more funeral homes........ From the Ozarks drinking free fresh spring water 💦

That’s neat.

Would love to see more funeral homes offer water cremation as well..

Come see us next!

Do embalmers HAVE to do the funeral director part as well?

I work with the hall family in ohio. They own two funeral home

The preparation room wasn’t shown.

Does he have more the one viewing room ?

Where’s the grave digger guy that used to be in a bunch of your videos?

Does he sell SM official swag like ballcaps?

YU please STOP WITH ADS like the 2nd one. Tracking your retirement money. SMH. Crazy ppl.

I guess it was less expensive to not change the name of the Funeral Home because it has been there so long.

7:19 The $$ room ??

Very echoey

Your in my backyard can I treat you to dinner?