offee County Funeral Chapel has been serving the Manchester community and surrounding areas since 1993. During the past 15 years, our staff has been dedicated to meeting the needs of our friends and neighbors. When experience and affordability matter, we are here for you.
Being built with you in mind, we offer the largest facility in the county. Our Chapel Entrance Foyer creates and elegant roomy entry for guests. With four identical, spacious Visitation rooms, we can assist several families at one time if necessary. Our Chapel, with total capacity of 300, is designed to serve all faiths in a warm, dignified atmosphere. Our full service Lounge, offers an area where friends and family can bring comfort food, a truly “southern tradition”, to share with all. It is continually stocked with all paper products, refrigerator, soft drink machine, microwave, and fresh hot coffee at no additional cost to the families we serve. Our facility is entirely handicap accessible with staff available to assist when necessary.
Our professional, caring staff holds many years of dedicated experience to assist with your every need.
Tim Kilgore, Owner and Sheri M. O’Neal, Manager, have been licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers for over 20 years each. Hollyn Anderson Clark, a native of Manchester, is serving her apprenticeship as Funeral Director and Embalmer. She is expected to receive her Funeral Directors and Embalmers License later this year. Our Family Service Counselor, Kathy Brock, is a Tennessee Licensed Insurance Agent. Kathy assists our families by providing care following funeral services as well as offering Pre-Arrangement services to all the families we serve.
Our Staff Associates, non-licensed, include Bill Brown, Garland Brown, Grady Cossey, O.D. Crosslin, Winfred Duke, Mildred Dunn, Helen Merrill, and Becky Phelps. Of all the services we offer at Coffee County Funeral Chapel, our people are the most important. Each employee’s number one concern is taking care of the families who place their trust in us. We are a family serving your family.
An additional feature of our funeral chapel is the dedicated Wall of Memory. This wall contains all the names of persons we have served over the years as a memorial to a life lived. We welcome all to come by the funeral chapel for a tour of the Wall of Memory and all our facilities. We also offer scheduled tours of our crematory facility located on the grounds of Manchester Funeral Home.
We, at Coffee County Funeral Chapel, desire to serve you and your family with reverence and dignity while still celebrating the legacy of a life lived by your loved one. Every life has a story to tell and we are honored to be the neighbors that help you do just that.
anchester Funeral Home was founded in 1932 and has been in continuous operation at its location of 214 East Main Street in Manchester, 2 blocks off of the town square.
Tim Kilgore, Owner, and Foy Rigney, Assistant Manager, both licensed funeral directors and embalmers hold years of experience and knowledge in the funeral profession.
Dwight Shelton , a Tennessee Licensed Insurance Agent, is available as our Pre-Need Counselor. He along with Tim Kilgore and Foy Rigney can answer your questions and assist you with pre arrangements that will suit your needs, whatever they may be.
Our non-licensed assistants include Mildred Dunn, Garland Brown, Windfred Duke, Bill Brown, Grady Cossey, and O.D. Crosslin. These folks are well known and respected in our community and are here to serve our families by making them feel at home during a difficult time.
Our Funeral Home offers a spacious and caring atmosphere. The buillding is fully handicap accessible, built with everyone in mind. The additional parking area, new handicap accessible restrooms and a spacious lounge are just a few more conveniences created with everyone in mind.
A chapel which can easily accommodate seating of 300 people, and three roomy viewing rooms for family and friends to visit with one another are just some of what Manchester Funeral Home has to offer. Recent upgrades to the facility, such as new interior paint and carpeting give the building a brighter look, but still retains its warm homelike atmosphere. Friends and family are welcome to bring food into the funeral home to be placed in the kitchen where there is coffee, silverware, plates, napkins and a refrigerator furnished by the funeral home for your use and convenience.
During a most unfortunate time for families, our facility provides the comfort of home along with a staff who is just as comforting. Our staff presents a professionalism of serving families during a difficult times and takes pride in doing so.
A Wall of Memory which displays the names our funeral home has served over the years from 1934 to present is displayed along the main hall.