Midwest Home Funeral Resources
Southwest Wisconsin, Viroqua area
Locally Sources and Crafted Funeral Products
Funeral Guide
Threshold Care Circle offers in person or telephone consultations to answer specific questions that will help you make decisions at the time of a death. We work with families at-need to prepare for end-of-life and after death choices. Call to schedule an appointment with one of our volunteers. (608)371-9056
End of Life Doula
Susan Nesbit is available to help individuals and families before, during, and after death. Susan has been a hospice volunteer since 2006 and a massage therapist since 1995, and her goal is to be a loving and compassionate companion to those dying. She also wants to educate and empower people to understand their options and to assist them to make plans so they can get on with the business of living. Susan can be reached through email and phone: snesbit66@gmail.com and 608-606-4566
Funeral Homes that support Family-Directed Funerals and Green Burials
Roth Family Cremation Center – Viroqua
Thorson- Popp Funeral and Cremation Services- Viroqua
Certified by the Green Burial Council
Vosseteig Funeral Home and Crematory – Viroqua (Funeral Directors Justin Panski and Bridgett Madden)
Certified by the Green Burial Council
Coulee Region Cremation Group – Onalaska
133 Mason Street, Onalaska, WI 608.788.2188
Milwaukee area
All One Spirit LLC
Laurie Dionne Asbeck 262.745.4051
Home Funerals and Green Burials: Educator, Death Midwife; Ceremony Celebrant
Located in Elkhorn, WI; covering Southeastern Wisconsin.
email laurie@allonespiritllc.com
Madison area
Simple Wisdom Sanctuary
Mary Kateada, Death Doula
3529 Lucia Crest, Madison WI 53705
608-442-0054
“As a death doula I work with people who are preparing for their own death, I will be with the dying, I help families care for a loved one who has passed, I assist in home funerals and I craft and officiate at funerals and memorials.”
Walking Each Other Home – www.walkingeachotherhomemadison.org
Jefferson
Personal Farewells, LLC
Personal Farewells guides families through all the steps necessary to care for their own loved ones after death.
Fran Vandre 920.723.2122 Sue Rheingans 262.365.8632
email personalfarewells@charter.net
NORTHERN WI
Sacred Ceremonies, Ltd
Lucy Basler, Director
3437 Chenoweth Drive
Webster, WI 54893
715-866-7798, cell: 715-566-2462
website: SacredCeremonies
lucybasler@gmail.com
ALL OF WISCONSIN
NORTHWOODS Casket Company
Jonas Zahn
North Center Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
northwoodscasket.com
920-885-6906
SHROUD MAKER
Jodi Beyer
608-415-1168
MICHIGAN
Merilynne Rush
PO Box 7735, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-395-9660
www.AfterDeathHomeCare.com
Merilynne Rush is a nurse and midwife with 25 years professional experience who educates and consults about natural death care options, including home funeral and green burial.
MINNESOTA
SE MN Threshold Network; Live Green, Leave Green, Rochester, MN
The Minnesota Threshold Network, Twin Cities area
The Minnesota Threshold Network was loosely formed in 2008 as a place to come together to talk, share, and tell stories about work at The Threshold: the place between the worlds of life and death.
Small meetings are held monthly. Larger community meetings are held quarterly with the goal of connecting those who dwell in this amazing space between. Please email us for more information at mnthresholdnetwork@gmail.com.
Linda Bergh and Marianne Dietzel, Beholding the Threshold
Linda Is available for individual consultations; Marianne plays the lyre at the bedside. Both are part of a Twin Cities group supporting families wishing to care for their own. Please contact them with any questions.
