How Much Is a Funeral

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Parrott & Wood Funeral Home Waterloo

Waterloo, IA

A funeral home with its own crematory.

Posted April 24, 2026 Checked August 24, 2026

Read this home's price list

965 Home Plz, Waterloo, IA 50701

From this home's state license record.

Direct cremation

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 24, 2026, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Cremation with service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 24, 2026, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Immediate burial

$4,170

The middle price in Iowa is $4,435.

The home posts $4,150. With one certified copy, $4,170.

How this adds up
"Immediate Burial"$4,150
1 certified copy of the death certificate$20
Sum$4,170

The list posts this as one line; what it covers is not printed; ask the funeral home. It does not cover transfer of the deceased from the place of death, mileage beyond the distance this list includes and additional certified copies of the death certificate beyond what the figure above already includes, which are priced one at a time. The county permit fee belongs to the county where the death occurred, not the county where the funeral home is, so pick that county below or ask the funeral home. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

The figure above adds one certified copy of the death certificate at $20 to this home's own price.

What this home's price does not cover

  • transfer of the deceased from the place of death
  • mileage beyond the distance this list includes
  • additional certified copies of the death certificate beyond what the figure above already includes, which are priced one at a time

This price is the home's own package, the one it calls "Immediate Burial".

This list does not say what the package covers, so ask the funeral home what is in it.

This list charges by the mile once the drive passes the distance its price covers. How far that is for a family is not something this figure can know, so no amount for it is in the total. The list says: "death certificates. Additional mileage charge of $2.75 per mile"

The median across Iowa is $4,435, from 10 posted price lists we have read.

Burial with graveside service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 24, 2026, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Traditional funeral service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 24, 2026, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

These prices do not include a casket. The casket is chosen and priced separately at the funeral home.

2 other packages this home posts

Traditional Burial Package

$6,655

This list does not say what the package covers, so ask the funeral home what is in it.

How this adds up
"Traditional Burial Package"$6,635
1 certified copy of the death certificate$20
Sum$6,655

It does not cover what this package covers. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

The figure above adds one certified copy of the death certificate at $20 to this home's own price.

What this home's price covers

  • the price the home posts for this service

What this home's price does not cover

  • what this package covers

graveside service, funeral coach, and utility Printing Packages

$315

This covers graveside service, funeral coach, and utility Printing Packages.

How this adds up
"graveside service, funeral coach, and utility Printing Packages"$295
1 certified copy of the death certificate$20
Sum$315

It does not cover what this package covers. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

The figure above adds one certified copy of the death certificate at $20 to this home's own price.

What this home's price covers

  • graveside service, funeral coach, and utility Printing Packages

What this home's price does not cover

  • what this package covers
These figures are ballparks for comparing homes, not quotes.

These figures are assembled from this home's own posted price list, and each one is rounded up to the next $5. Treat them as a way to compare homes, not as a quote. Only the funeral home can quote you.

What the county fee is

This fee is charged by the county where the death occurred, not the county where the funeral home is. The amount for this state is not on file here, so ask the funeral home.

In this list: in IL, 102 counties with no fee on file here; in MN, 10 counties charging no fee; in MO, 12 counties charging no fee. A county not in this list charges something too; ask that county or the funeral home.

The counties of the states this one touches are in the list too, each one labeled with its state, because a death does not stop at a state line.

Certified copies of the death certificate

One certified copy of the death certificate is included in every figure on this page.

This home's list does not post a price for a certified copy of the death certificate. Iowa charges $20 for one, so that is the figure below. This is what the record itself costs. Ask the funeral home whether it charges anything to order them for you.

How many certified copies do you need?

Most families need more than one. Raising the count raises every figure on this page.

One certified copy is $20.

Nobody can tell you how many you will need. Banks, insurers, and pension offices each tend to want their own, so families commonly order several. Set the count and the line says what that comes to.

Tax is always approximate. Ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

Where to look next

What the other funeral homes in Waterloo charge

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The same question, answered for every Iowa home we have read:

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