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History

History

Our funeral home has a unique history and committed relationship working within the community. We invite you to explore our legacy.

Our Beginnings

Our founder, Steve Lauer, began Lauer Family Funeral homes because he saw what impact the larger, high volume funeral homes had on families. Impersonal and distant is not what families are looking for or need when planning to memorialize their loved ones.

After years of working in the Detroit area, Steve decided to take a path that would allow him to insure that families he served would be treated in a personal, compassionate and caring way, instead of placing profit ahead of family care. In June of 1981 he purchased the former Labedz Funeral Home in Jackson and renamed it the S. D. Lauer Funeral Home. It is there the fine tradition of compassionate, personalized care started that your local Lauer Family Funeral Homes are known for.

In 1994 our Jackson funeral home was updated to better serve your family. This addition allows us to offer a larger chapel/visitation room, lobby, and additional amenities, including additional restrooms, a family café, a large and well-lit arrangement center, beautiful landscaping, and decor to suggest a home-like atmosphere

The Tradition Continues

The small town, close-knit community atmosphere fits closely with the way in which Lauer Family Funeral Homes likes to treat each and every one of the families we serve. The kind of small town caring found in communities across America like Concord, Michigan. When the opportunity to acquire the former Murdock Funeral Home in Concord presented itself in November 1984, Steve Lauer leaped at the opportunity.

Over time, our Concord funeral home proved too small to adequately serve the needs of the community. In 2002 we undertook the monumental task of expansion and remodeling with a significant increase in the size of the footprint of our buildings. To accomplish this, we completely demolished the interior of the funeral home and tied it together with our detached arrangement office. The finished project allows us to provide you with big city amenities with a local, small town atmosphere including: a large chapel/viewing room, family café, lobby, large well-lit arrangement center, and a state of the art audio system.

Jackson Expansion

Over the years of owning our Jackson facility it became quite apparent that our cramped little funeral home needed expansion and remodeling to better serve those we care for. In 1994 we undertook the task of upgrading our facilities by adding a 1200 square foot chapel/visitation room, lobby, reconfiguring the existing structure and adding additional amenities not offered before, including additional restrooms, a family café, a large and well lit arrangement center, beautiful landscaping, and decor to suggest a home-like atmosphere.

Concord Remodel

Like our Jackson facilities, our Concord funeral home proved too small to adequately serve the needs of the community. In 2002 we undertook the monumental task of expansion and remodeling with a significant increase in the size of the footprint of our buildings. To accomplish this, we completely demolished the interior of the funeral home and tied it together with our detached arrangement office. The finished project allows us to provide big city amenities with a small town atmosphere. A large chapel/viewing room, family café, lobby, large well lit arrangement center, and a state of the art audio system.

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