Krueger Funeral Home

Krueger Funeral Home staff was extremely helpful and compassionate when it came to our parents wake and funeral. They were sensitive to our needs and listened with open hearts. They helped us every step of the way at this most difficult time. We will be forever grateful. The Hasier Family

This charming looking cape cod looking funeral has long been the premier funeral home in Blue Island.
The interior is tastefully decorated, not excessively so and has a homey feeling as if you’re visiting your grandmother’s house with a dinning room table for mourners to share a light meal.
However, it is totally bizarre as to how the body is set up for viewing. When one walks into the main parlor, where your loved one is being viewed, is a super wide aisle, one in which a pickup truck would easily be able to drive up to the casket.
The chairs where the mourners are seated are divided in half… One side directly faces the other portion of family and mourners, separated by this huge aisle. Face to face with this expansive aisle between the two groups.
It’s kind of like the McCoy’s on one side and the Hatfield’s on the other but, no gunfire was exchanged. When you want to talk to someone across the room, you had to elevate your voice to talk or sometimes motion to the person across this wide aisle.
As for viewing the casket, I got this kink in one right side of my neck from turning towards the casket to view the body, as no chairs faced the casket. The casket was up against the wailing wall, either to the right or left side of your head, depending on whichever side you were on. Bizarre! Almost like the red carpet at the Oscars watching the people arrive and make their way towards the casket.
A peculiar concept in waking at this funeral home.

The staff at Krueger Funeral Home couldn’t be kinder.