Wolfersberger Funeral Home

Wolfersberger Funeral Home is a funeral home in O'Fallon, IL. It provides complete funeral services, including pre-planning and custom planning options, and works with families to design services that honor a loved one's personal life stories. The home offers affordable services with several options, grief support, and guidance through the benefits and services available to veteran loved ones. It also creates customized online memorials where the obituary and photographs can be shared, and where visitors can post condolences, share memories, upload photos, and light candles. Jim and Kim Sabella are on-site owners, and along with a dedicated team, are available 24 hours a day. Kim Sabella is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer with nearly 40 years of experience in funeral service. She holds Illinois and Missouri licenses, is a Certified Funeral Service Practitioner through the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice, and has served on the Education and Convention Committees of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association. The funeral home holds a rating of 4.90 from 29 reviews.

The business began in 1946, when L.M. "Lefty" and Mildred "Millie" Wolfersberger, along with Othmar J. Meyer, purchased the Schwarz Brothers Funeral Chapel. Operations were first conducted from the current-day VFW Hall on West First Street in O'Fallon, and the Wolfersberger-Meyer Funeral Home relocated to its current location at Lincoln and Washington Streets in 1948. Mr. Wolfersberger also operated an ambulance service and answered calls and dispatched for the fire department 24 hours a day until the 1980s, and the Wolfersberger family lived on the second floor of the funeral home from 1949. Lefty became the sole operator in the 1970s. The building was first constructed in 1877 as the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Penn Scott and passed through the Porter, Schaefer, and Allan families before becoming the Wolfersberger-Meyer Funeral Home in 1949. It was designated a historical landmark in 1973 by St. Clair County and in 2005 by the City of O'Fallon. Jim and Kim Sabella and family own and operate the funeral home while also calling it home.

The funeral home sits on West Washington Street, about a tenth of a mile from South Lincoln Avenue and the Scenic Red Caboose. Historic O'Fallon City Hall stands next door, and the O'Fallon Fire Department Headquarters, the O'Fallon Board of Education, and the O'Fallon Historical Society are all about a tenth of a mile away.

The funeral home is known for its strong local reputation, reflected in consistently high customer ratings.

Families in and around O'Fallon, including the communities surrounding Scott Air Force Base, have turned to this family-owned funeral home since 1946.