Laughrey Funeral Home

Laughrey Funeral Home is a funeral home in Pennsville, New Jersey, serving families across the community and surrounding area with burial and funeral arrangements. Services include traditional burial, which the funeral home describes as involving a visitation and a funeral service held in a church or other place of worship, with the casket present at both. They guide families through decisions about embalming, casket selection, cemetery choice, and gravestone inscription, and they explain cemetery types including monumental cemeteries, lawn cemeteries, mausoleums, and columbaria. The funeral home also offers obituaries, grief support, pre-planning, and a send-flowers feature through its website. It holds a rating of 3.50 based on 2 reviews.

Established in 1950 by Robert E. Laughrey, the firm was the first funeral home in Pennsville and is now represented by three generations of the Laughrey family. Robert E. Laughrey, a WWII veteran from Haddonfield, New Jersey, attended Eckels College of Mortuary Science. He was followed by John D. Laughrey, who studied at Elizabethtown College and the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, and Robert W. Laughrey, who earned a BA in Business from Charleston Southern University and a funeral service degree from Mercer County. The staff welcomes every faith and religion and works with bereaved families on every detail of a funeral.

The funeral home sits on North Broadway, about 0.3 miles from Riverview Beach Park and The Delaware River - Colonial Highway of the Swedes and Finns memorial, and roughly 0.4 miles from Pennsville Memorial High School and Pennsville Adult High School. The Pennsville Recreation Department is steps away, and the Pennsville Senior and Community Center is nearby.

For more than seven decades Laughrey Funeral Home has been a presence in Pennsville, carrying on a family practice that began with its founder and continues today under his descendants.