The Reed Funeral Home becomes the family's home, a place to greet relatives and friends during visitation and the funeral service. The Greeting Area is set apart from other rooms and offers a place for families to have a personal meeting with their clergy or just enjoy a time of quiet solitude.
Every family that is served by the Reed Funeral Home is provided with a quiet and private room in which to talk with a funeral director. In this room, a myriad of arrangements will be made, always conforming to the family's desires concerning the many elements that can compose a funeral service. Our funeral directors are "listeners" who will help guide you through a very difficult time while always understanding your special needs and desires that will create a meaningful funeral service and tribute at that special time.
Conforming to grand architectural renderings of the early 1900s, the Bay Room was created as an elegant living room in the stately residence that would, in 1956, become the Reed Funeral Home. The Bay Room now serves as an arrangement office or as a setting for private visitations. The room can also be utilized for family/clergy discussions or as a quiet place for family members and their guests to meet and have private time together.
The Reed Funeral Home offers a church-like chapel that provides seating for over 150 people. It is the only funeral chapel that is located in a funeral home in the greater Canton area. The hardwood pews, tasteful decor and controlled lighting creates a dignified atmosphere that accommodates families of all religious denominations.
Located adjacent to the Chapel, the Family Room provides an area of privacy for families that wish to be seated together before or during the funeral service. Louvered panels allow those people seated in the Family Room to see and hear the clergyman and observe the casket and floral arrangements while being seated away from the congregation. Modern restrooms and secure areas for hanging outer garments are located nearby.
Over a century ago, skilled craftsmen that were employed by the Sayers and Scovill Company of Cincinnati built a horse drawn hearse for Christian Loeffer who operated a mortuary in Strasburg, Ohio. Over the years, it was passed on to several other owners until being discovered, in 1981, in a barn in Bolivar, Ohio and then purchased by the Reed Funeral Home. Alvin Raber and other gifted Amish woodworkers, who live in the Bunker Hill area of Holmes County, Ohio, spent countless hours restoring the hearse to its original grandeur. Two proud steeds, pulling the hearse can still be seen in parades and at festivals in the Canton area.|
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