Specialties
We are you locally owned, full service funeral home, offering traditional services along will full cremation services. Area only funeral store with over 100 urns in stock.
History
Established in 1919.
The Blauvelt Funeral Home was first established as the Kolb Funeral Home in 1919 under the ownership of R.C. Kolb. In 1958 Mr. Kolb sold the business to Sherman Allgeier. Upon Mr. Allgeier's retirement on January 1, 1978, Richard J. Blauvelt, who had been an employee of the Kolb-Allgeier Funeral Home, purchased the business.
On August 28, 2006, Mr. Blauvelt broke ground for a new ultra modern funeral home. The new facility would feature the latest technology available. Mr. Blauvelt designed the new facility with a new concept in the funeral industry- a funeral store. It is one of the very first funeral stores in the nation. It provides funeral merchandise direct to the public at discount prices, featuring a large display of: Urns, Keepsakes, Jewelry, Clothing, and Sympathy cards, Markers, Flowers, Caskets, Vaults. The store also includes a Veterans Center and Pet Loss Center.
The new Blauvelt Funeral Home opened August 4, 2007, moving from its old location on Waverly Street to the new
Meet the Business Owner: Ronald L.
Ron joined Blauvelt Funeral Home in 2015 as a Licensed Funeral Director, licensed in New York State and serving in the funeral industry for over 15 years. He purchased the funeral home in January of 2017 and looks forward to serving the valley community for years to come. He has training in all aspects of the funeral industry, specializing in pre-planning, pre-arrangement's, and prefunding your funeral arrangements. He is also a certified funeral celebrant who takes pride in making each service as individual as the person its for. Ron enjoys doing pre-planning presentations for local groups and organizations. He has two grown children, Courtney and Jacob, and one magnificent granddaughter, Izabella. Born in Waverly at the old Tioga General Hospital, he has lived in the Southern Tier for most of his life. Ron got into the funeral industry by starting and operating a burial vault company in Elmira that led him to pursue getting his Funeral Director's license.