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Abingdon & Southwest Virginia obituary helper
Find a Farris Obituary, Check the Correct Chapel and Verify the Service Address
Farris Funeral Service publishes a searchable obituary directory for families in Abingdon, Bristol, Glade Spring and surrounding Southwest Virginia communities. The same system can include funerals at the Main Street Chapel, the Cremation & Funeral Center, Forest Hills Memory Gardens, churches or other locations.
Use this page to find the right memorial, understand every useful obituary-page button, get service directions, receive obituary alerts and know which Farris facility to contact without opening every page on the official website.
Useful facts first
Farris Funeral Home Obituaries: Quick Answer
You know the person’s name
Use Farris’s obituary directory and open the person’s full memorial rather than relying on the search preview.
Follow the name-search stepsYou are going to a service
Read each event separately. The visitation, funeral and graveside service may use different locations.
Run the service checklistYou want obituary alerts
Farris offers a separate subscription for new obituary notices. This is different from its grief-support email program.
See both subscriptionsA death has just occurred
Farris says a licensed funeral professional is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for immediate assistance.
See the immediate-need workflowWhat opens: the live obituary list with name search, individual memorials, service schedules and a subscription option for new obituary alerts.
One obituary system, several places
Know the Difference Between Farris’s Three Abingdon Facilities
Farris’s official location information identifies two funeral-service facilities and Forest Hills Memory Gardens. Two of them share the Lee Highway address.
427 East Main Street
Abingdon, VA 24210
19415 Lee Highway
Abingdon, VA 24210
19415 Lee Highway
Abingdon, VA 24210
Farris Cremation and Funeral Center and Forest Hills Memory Gardens are both listed at 19415 Lee Highway, but one is a funeral/cremation facility and the other is the cemetery property.
Search the official archive
How to Find a Specific Farris Funeral Service Obituary
The official directory reviewed for this article displayed thousands of obituary results spread across hundreds of pages, so it functions as both a current listing and a substantial historical archive.
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Open Farris’s official Obituaries page
Use the funeral home’s directory rather than entering the person’s information into an unrelated public-record form.
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Enter the person’s name
Start with the full name. If necessary, simplify the search to the surname or try a familiar nickname.
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Open “Visit Obituary”
The directory preview is only a summary. The individual memorial contains the useful service and tribute information.
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Verify the correct person
Check dates, residence and other family-published details before assuming a matching name is the person you want.
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Read the Service Schedule
Look separately at visitation, funeral, celebration-of-life and graveside entries.
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Use the event’s directions
Do not assume the service will take place at the facility named as caring for the family.
Farris serves a large Southwest Virginia area. Use dates, residence and other public details to distinguish people with similar names.
What the buttons actually do
How to Use a Farris Obituary Page Without Guessing
The most important travel check
“Farris Is Handling the Family” Does Not Mean Every Event Is at Farris
Official memorial pages show several different arrangements. Some services stay at one Farris facility, while others move from the Main Street Chapel to Forest Hills Memory Gardens or take place at a church.
Her visitation and funeral were listed at Farris Cremation & Funeral Center – Forest Hills Chapel, followed by interment in Forest Hills Memory Gardens.
Opens official Mildred Kestner memorialHer visitation was listed at the Main Street Chapel, while the graveside service was at Forest Hills Memory Gardens on Lee Highway.
Opens official Janie Bowman memorialHis visitation and celebration of life were listed at Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church rather than at a Farris chapel.
Opens official Baird Smith memorialThat address is correct for the Main Street Chapel, but it is not the destination for every Farris visitation, funeral or burial.
Historical obituary lookup
Farris Has a Large Online Obituary Archive
The official obituary directory snapshot reviewed for this article displayed 4,690 results across 235 pages. Older individual Farris memorials also remain publicly accessible.
Farris’s official Terry Lee Livingston memorial from September 2011 remains available online, demonstrating that the current website includes historical obituary pages rather than only recent notices.
What opens: Terry Lee Livingston’s 2011 Farris memorial, including the obituary and the family’s memorial-donation request.
Two subscriptions, two purposes
Obituary Alerts Are Different From Farris Grief Emails
New obituary notifications
Farris’s obituary directory includes a subscription option specifically for alerts when new obituaries are posted.
Use this when: your goal is to follow new death notices.
Grief-support messages
Farris separately offers a year of grief-support messages intended to provide ongoing encouragement after a loss.
Use this when: support is your goal rather than obituary discovery.
What opens: Farris’s subscription route for email notifications when new obituaries are posted.
After finding the correct memorial
Guestbook, Flowers, Trees and Sympathy Cards
Online guest register
Farris obituaries commonly invite readers to express sympathy through the online guest register.
Flowers or memorial tree
Many memorial pages include a flower-store route and a memorial-tree option.
Family-requested donation
Some obituaries name a charity, church or organization in lieu of flowers. Read the obituary before ordering.
Write one sincere sentence, include one positive memory if you knew the person, and avoid trying to explain why the loss happened.
What opens: Farris’s flower-ordering route for sympathy and funeral arrangements.
A death has occurred
Farris’s Official Immediate-Need Workflow
First: make sure the death has been legally pronounced
Farris explains that the appropriate medical or legal pronouncement must happen before funeral arrangements proceed. In a hospital or nursing facility, staff normally handle this process; hospice staff may handle it for a patient under hospice care.
For a death at home outside hospice or another unexpected situation, follow local emergency instructions before moving the deceased.
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Check whether arrangements were pre-planned
Farris recommends first determining whether the deceased already documented funeral or cremation wishes.
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Contact the funeral home
Once the required pronouncement has occurred, the family can begin discussing care and arrangements with the funeral director.
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Choose burial or cremation
If final wishes were not already documented, this becomes one of the major family decisions.
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Plan the service
Farris lists decisions such as date, time, location, casket or urn, obituary, pallbearers, minister, music and speakers.
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Mention military service early
Farris advises families of active-duty or retired military members to ask about applicable Veterans Administration benefits and service options.
What opens: the funeral home’s detailed instructions about pronouncement, arrangements, required information, documents and personal-property tasks.
Prepare for the arrangement meeting
Information and Documents Farris Says May Be Needed
Farris publishes a useful checklist of information funeral directors may need for legal paperwork and final arrangements.
Farris’s checklist also mentions items such as Social Security numbers and financial documents. Provide sensitive information only through the funeral home’s authorized process or the appropriate government/financial institution — never through FuneralHomeObituaries.org.
What Farris actually offers
Burial, Cremation, Personalization and Veteran Services
Permanent memorialization after cremation
What opens: Farris’s service hub for burial, cremation, personalization and veteran-service information.
Specific ways to make a service personal
What Farris Means by a Personalized Funeral
Photos & albums
Farris suggests photo collages, digital slideshows, memorial-folder photos, registry-book images and personalized urn imagery.
Tribute videos
Photos and meaningful music can be assembled into a keepsake video for the service and family.
Music & artwork
Live or recorded music, personal artwork and displays can reflect the person’s interests and creativity.
Readings
Favorite poetry, literature or original pieces written by family and friends can be part of the service.
Livestreaming
Farris’s services overview lists livestreaming as an option for family and friends who cannot attend in person.
Life celebrants
Farris’s traditional-service information says trained celebrants can lead services when a family does not choose clergy.
What opens: Farris’s practical ideas for photos, tribute videos, music, artwork, poetry and other personalized elements.
What the official pricing page actually says
How Farris Explains Funeral and Cemetery Pricing
Farris’s current Services & Pricing page emphasizes price transparency and says its price lists are itemized so families can compare services and merchandise.
The public page reviewed for this article does not display one universal dollar package that would apply to every family, so this guide does not invent a funeral cost.
What opens: the funeral home’s current explanation of itemized pricing, professional services and merchandise categories.
Planning before an immediate need
What Farris Preplanning Is Designed to Decide in Advance
Farris explains that families can face many decisions within roughly the first day or two after a death when no planning exists. Its preplanning resources are designed to record those choices before that pressure arrives.
What opens: Farris’s explanation of why families preplan and links into its planning process.
If you are attending
Useful Funeral Etiquette From Farris’s Own Resource
What opens: practical guidance about visiting, what to say, seating, children, phones, flowers and other ways to support a grieving family.
Verified addresses and phones
Farris Funeral Service Locations and Google Maps
Farris’s current contact page says a licensed funeral professional is available around the clock. That should not be interpreted as a promise that every public lobby or cemetery office is physically open 24 hours.
Farris Funeral Service, Inc.
427 East Main Street
Abingdon, VA 24210
Phone: (276) 623-2700
Farris Cremation and Funeral Center
19415 Lee Highway
Abingdon, VA 24210
Current Farris contact number: (276) 623-2700
Forest Hills Memory Gardens
19415 Lee Highway
Abingdon, VA 24210
Phone: (276) 623-2717
Farris publishes wecare@farrisfs.com as its general funeral-service contact email.
These maps identify Farris facilities. A memorial can instead direct you to a church, another cemetery or another family-selected location.
Know exactly what each link opens
Official Farris Links and When to Use Each One
View All Obituaries
Use when: you need a recent or historical Farris memorial.
Obituary Notifications
Use when: you want emails when new Farris obituaries are posted.
When Death Occurs
Use when: a death has occurred and the family needs the first practical steps.
Our Locations
Use when: you need to distinguish Main Street, Lee Highway and Forest Hills.
Contact Farris
Use when: service details are unclear or immediate assistance is needed.
Services Overview
Use when: comparing burial, cremation, personalized or veteran services.
Traditional Services
Use when: you want to understand visitation, funeral and graveside service formats.
Cremation Services
Use when: considering cremation with or without a public service.
Personal Services
Use when: you need ideas for photos, videos, music, artwork or readings.
Services & Pricing
Use when: you want Farris’s current explanation of itemized prices and merchandise categories.
Preplanning
Use when: documenting funeral wishes before there is an immediate need.
Social Security Benefits
Use when: a surviving spouse, child or parent needs a starting point for survivor-benefit questions.
Funeral Etiquette
Use when: you are unsure what to say, where to sit or what is appropriate at a visitation or funeral.
Grief Resources
Use when: you need support information after the obituary and funeral tasks.
No useful stable public PDF from Farris Funeral Service was verified for this article. The practical information from the funeral home’s public pages has therefore been summarized directly instead of sending readers to an unverified PDF.
Fast practical answers
10 FAQs About Farris Funeral Home Obituaries
1. Where can I find Farris Funeral Home obituaries?
Use Farris Funeral Service’s official obituary directory at farrisfuneralservice.com. It provides a searchable list of notices and links to individual memorial pages.
2. What is Farris Funeral Service’s main phone number?
Farris currently lists (276) 623-2700 as its main funeral-service number and says a licensed funeral professional is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
3. Where is the Farris Main Street Chapel?
Farris Funeral Service, Inc. – Main Street Chapel is at 427 East Main Street, Abingdon, Virginia 24210.
4. Where is the Farris Cremation and Funeral Center?
The Farris Cremation and Funeral Center is at 19415 Lee Highway, Abingdon, Virginia 24210. Farris’s current contact page lists (276) 623-2700 for the facility.
5. Is Forest Hills Memory Gardens at the same address as the Farris Cremation and Funeral Center?
Yes. Both are listed at 19415 Lee Highway in Abingdon, but Forest Hills Memory Gardens is the cemetery property and has its own published phone number, (276) 623-2717.
6. Do Farris obituary pages show service times and directions?
Many do. Current memorials can show a Service Schedule with event type, date, Eastern Time, venue, directions and options such as Add to Calendar or sending directions by text.
7. Are all funerals handled by Farris held at the Main Street Chapel?
No. Official memorials show services at the Main Street Chapel, the Forest Hills Chapel on Lee Highway, Forest Hills Memory Gardens, local churches and other venues.
8. Can I get email alerts when Farris posts a new obituary?
Yes. Farris provides an obituary-notification subscription for alerts when new notices are posted. Its grief-support email program is a separate subscription.
9. What should a family do when a death has just occurred?
Farris says the appropriate legal pronouncement of death must occur first. After that, check for preplanned wishes and contact the funeral home to begin discussing burial or cremation, service details and required paperwork.
10. Does Farris provide burial, cremation and preplanning services?
Yes. Farris publishes information about traditional burial services, cremation options, personalized services, veteran services, advance planning and Forest Hills Memory Gardens.
After-funeral administration
Farris’s Social Security Survivor-Benefit Resource
Farris publishes a separate Social Security resource explaining that certain spouses, children or parents of an eligible deceased worker may qualify for survivor benefits.
Monthly survivor benefits
Farris explains that qualifying survivors may receive monthly benefits based partly on the deceased worker’s Social Security record.
One-time death payment
The Farris resource currently describes a possible $255 lump-sum death payment in qualifying circumstances.
Contact SSA
Farris directs families with benefit questions to the Social Security Administration at 1-800-772-1213.
Use the Farris page as a practical starting point, but verify eligibility, payment amounts and current application rules directly with the Social Security Administration before relying on them.
What opens: Farris’s overview of survivor benefits, qualifying family members and the SSA contact route.