Thompson-Smith-Nesbitt Funeral Home

Thompson-Smith-Nesbitt Funeral Home is a funeral home in Conneaut, OH, serving families in the city and the surrounding Ashtabula County community. The firm provides traditional funeral services, cremation services, pre-planning, and grief support, helping families arrange visitations, church services, burials, and memorial events. It holds a rating of 4.90 based on 19 reviews, and offers both phone and in-person consultations at its office on Main Street.

The business was originally established as the Gordon Thompson Funeral Home in Kingsville in 1928 by Gordon S. Thompson, who later moved it to Conneaut, where it has remained on Main Street ever since. Gordon was joined by his two sons, George A. and C. William, and the firm became known as the Thompson Funeral Home. After George died in 1966, C. William became President, and following C. William's death in 1991, his son-in-law Thomas J. Smith and his wife Janet (Thompson) took ownership. Tom, a Conneaut High School graduate and United States Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, had joined the firm as a licensed funeral director and embalmer in 1972 after graduating from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. In 2005, funeral directors Stephanie Hall-Nesbitt and Eric A. Nesbitt joined the firm, and in 2012 they purchased it from the Smith family. Stephanie, a Conneaut native and University of Cincinnati graduate, serves as Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer, while Eric serves as President. Both are licensed funeral directors and embalmers in Ohio. Online obituaries are published through the funeral home's website, and current and past services are listed for the community.

The funeral home sits on Main Street in central Conneaut, with Mill Street about a tenth of a mile away and State Street roughly a fifth of a mile away. Conneaut City Hall, the Conneaut Police Department, and the Conneaut Fire Department are each about a fifth of a mile from the building, placing the firm within the civic core of the city.

The firm has served Conneaut for nearly a century and carries a solid reputation among the families it has helped through every stage of funeral planning, from traditional burial and cremation to pre-arrangement and grief support. As one of the longest-operating funeral homes in the area, Thompson-Smith-Nesbitt Funeral Home remains a steady presence for families in Conneaut and the surrounding Ashtabula County communities during their times of need.