Our History
Nichols Life Tribute Funeral & Cremation Services Muscatine Funeral Home has roots deep in the community and generations of experience caring for Muscatine area families. Transitioning from a cabinetmaker's shop in 1863 to a store-front undertaking parlor in 1883. The firm is known for being progressive, having brought many 'firsts' to the funeral profession and Muscatine:
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Iowa's first formal funeral chapel, 1924
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First Muscatine undertaking establishment to use the term "Funeral Home"
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First lady embalmer, 1924
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First motorized funeral cars and ambulance
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First pipe organ in chapel, 1927
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Air conditioned building
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Private family and reposing rooms
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First funeral home to adopt a cost accounting system
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Only local funeral home invited into the prestigious National Selected Morticians
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First area funeral home to use service folders/memorial records, guest registers, temporary grave markers and sermon transcripts for each service
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First area funeral home to offer prearranged funeral planning, 1927
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First local funeral home to offer on-site catered receptions, January 1989
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Iowa's first Cremation Memorial Center, August 1998
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Muscatine's first crematory, January 1999
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1923 |
Circa 1925 |
Circa 1929
Circa 1938
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