Zanesville, Ohio · Established 1971
A family funeral home on North Gate Road
We are the Keller family. We handle burials and cremations for families in Muskingum County, and we answer our own telephone at every hour. There is no charge to come in and talk before you decide anything.
What we do
Prices are written down and given to you before you choose anything. We do not sell packages over the phone and we will tell you when a thing is not necessary.
- Traditional funeral service
- Visitation and service in our chapel, or at your church with us handling the arrangements. Includes transportation, preparation, register book and the procession to the cemetery.
- Cremation
- Direct cremation, or cremation followed by a memorial service on a date that suits your family. The crematory is thirty minutes away in Newark and a member of our staff accompanies every transfer.
- Planning ahead
- You can write down what you want and pay for it now at today's prices. The money sits in a state regulated trust in your name, and it moves with you if you leave Ohio.
- Veterans
- We file the paperwork for the burial allowance and the headstone, arrange the honor guard through V.F.W. Post 1058, and present the flag. There is no fee from us for this filing.
- Monuments
- Ordered through Muskingum Monument Works, who have cut stone in this county since 1904. You see a rubbing of the lettering before anything is carved.
Fifty-four years on the same road
The house has stayed in the family
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1971
Walter Keller buys the old Deitrich place on North Gate Road and opens the funeral home with one hearse and a borrowed tent.
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1979
Raymond, Walter's son, is licensed and joins his father full time after four years of driving for the ambulance service.
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1986
The chapel is built onto the east side of the house so families no longer have to hold services in a rented hall.
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1998
Walter retires. Raymond and Diane take over the business and begin offering cremation, which by then one family in five is asking for.
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2011
Thomas, the third generation, comes home from mortuary school in Cincinnati and takes over the night calls.
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2019
The cremation garden opens behind the chapel, with a low stone wall for niches and eleven maples planted along the walk.
Who you will meet
Raymond Keller
Owner, funeral director
Licensed in 1979. He will most likely be the one who comes to the house, whatever time you call.
Diane Keller
Office, pre-arrangements
She files the death certificates, handles the insurance claims and keeps the accounts. Thirty-one years in this office.
Thomas Keller
Funeral director, embalmer
Third generation. Coaches the junior high wrestling team at Maysville and takes most of the night calls.
What families have said
4.9 average from 63 Google reviews
★★★★★My father died at 2 in the morning and Raymond was at the house before 3. He sat with my mother at the kitchen table for an hour and did not once mention money.
★★★★★We only wanted a cremation and no service. Nobody tried to talk us into more than that. The price on the paper was the price we paid.
★★★★★Diane found my mother's insurance policy from 1988 that we thought was gone and dealt with the company herself. That saved us about four thousand dollars.
★★★★★The service for my uncle was handled well and the honor guard was on time. Parking got tight when the crowd was bigger than expected, but that is a small thing.
Come by
We are across from Northgate Cemetery, 1.4 miles north of Exit 155 on Maple Avenue. The lot holds sixty cars and the front door is level with the walk.
- Address
- 412 North Gate Road
Zanesville, Ohio 43701 - Office hours
- Mon–Fri 9:00–5:00
Sat 9:00–12:00, Sun by appointment - Telephone
- (740) 555-0163, answered all night
If you need us now
(740) 555-0163Call any hour. If a death has occurred at home or at a nursing facility, call us first and we will take it from there.