Engle Bowling Funeral Home Obituaries & Search Guide

Hazard, Kentucky obituary search

Find Engle-Bowling Obituaries, Service Times and Burial Information

If you are looking for an obituary handled by Engle-Bowling Funeral Home, start with the funeral home’s official obituary search. It can be used for recent notices as well as older records and provides more than a person’s date of death: individual pages may also contain visitation times, funeral or memorial service details, cemetery information, family information, photographs and a guestbook.

Funeral Home Engle-Bowling Funeral Home

Location 301 East Main Street, Hazard, KY 41701-1922

Main Phone 606-436-2131

24-Hour Obituary Line 606-436-4725

Search Official Obituaries Call Obituary Line

Fastest route: If you know the person’s name, search the official obituary index first. If the obituary is not appearing, try the surname alone, a maiden name, nickname, date range or obituary-text search before assuming no record exists.

How to Search Engle-Bowling Funeral Home Obituaries

Open the official obituary page. Go to Engle-Bowling Funeral Home’s obituary search . This is the most direct source for notices published by the funeral home.

Enter the deceased person’s name. Start with the last name if you are unsure of the exact spelling of the first name. For common surnames, add the first name after checking the broader results.

Use the date filter when too many results appear. Enter an approximate date-of-death range. If the exact date is unknown, widen the range by several weeks or months.

Try the obituary-text search. This can help when you remember a spouse, child, community, church, cemetery or other wording from the obituary but cannot locate the notice by name.

Use the veteran filter when appropriate. The official search includes a Veterans Only option that can narrow results for veteran obituary records.

Open the individual obituary before traveling. Confirm the visitation location, funeral location, date, starting time and cemetery. Services are not always held at the funeral-home chapel.

What Information Can an Engle-Bowling Obituary Include?

An individual obituary may contain several pieces of information that are useful for family members, friends and genealogy research. Not every notice contains every field, but these are the details worth checking before looking elsewhere.

Information	What to Look For	Why It Helps
Full name	Legal name, nickname, middle name or maiden name	Helps distinguish people with similar names.
Birth and death	Birth date, death date, age and place	Useful for family-history and death-record searches.
Family	Parents, spouse, children, siblings and grandchildren	Helps confirm that you found the correct person.
Visitation	Date, time and location	Important when planning to attend.
Funeral or memorial	Service date, time, church or chapel	Services may occur somewhere other than the funeral home.
Burial	Cemetery or family-cemetery name	Provides the strongest clue for locating a grave.
Guestbook	Condolences, memories or memorial messages	Lets friends and relatives share remembrances when enabled.

Important: Do not assume a funeral is being held at 301 East Main Street simply because Engle-Bowling is handling the arrangements. Some notices direct visitors to a church, cemetery, family location or another venue. Always check the individual obituary.

Recent Obituary Examples Verified in October 2026

Funeral-home listings change frequently, so the following should be treated as a verification snapshot rather than a permanent “latest obituaries” list.

Name	Date of Death	Official Record
Larry Baker	October 5, 2026	View official obituary
Peggy Hall	October 3, 2026	View official obituary

Verification snapshot: October 16, 2026. New notices can be added after this page is published, so use the official obituary index for the current list.

Can’t Find the Obituary? Use This Search Order

An obituary may be missing from your first search because of spelling, timing, location or the way the person’s name was entered. Work through these checks before moving to another source.

Search only the last name.
Try a maiden name or previous married name.
Try common nickname and legal-name versions, such as Bill/William or Bob/Robert.
Remove the middle name or middle initial.
Search a wider date-of-death range.
Use the obituary-text field with a spouse, relative, cemetery, church or community name.
Call the 24-hour obituary line at 606-436-4725.
Call the funeral-home office at 606-436-2131 if you believe Engle-Bowling handled the arrangements.

Recently reported death? A family may need time to finalize arrangements before a full obituary or service schedule is published. If the death is very recent, checking again later or calling the funeral home can be more useful than repeatedly searching other obituary sites.

Engle-Bowling Funeral Home Contact Details

Address	301 East Main Street, Hazard, KY 41701-1922
Main telephone	606-436-2131
24-hour obituary line	606-436-4725
Email	englebowlingfh@gmail.com
Official contact page	Contact Engle-Bowling Funeral Home

The funeral home states that families may call at any time for immediate assistance. If your question is specifically about a published obituary, service time or burial location, have the deceased person’s full name and approximate death date ready before calling.

Services Offered by Engle-Bowling Funeral Home

The funeral home describes itself as a full-service provider serving Perry County and surrounding Eastern Kentucky communities. Its official service information lists:

Traditional funeral services
Celebrations of life
Memorial services
Graveside services
Cremation services
Pre-need planning
Monuments
Memorial and keepsake jewelry and gifts

Engle-Bowling also states that it has an on-site crematory. Families needing current pricing, merchandise information or arrangement details should confirm those items directly because costs and selections can change.

View the official Engle-Bowling services page

How to Use an Obituary to Locate a Burial

If your goal is not only to read the obituary but also to find where the person was buried, focus on the final service information. Look for words such as interment, burial, cemetery, family cemetery or graveside service.

Write down the cemetery exactly as shown. Small family cemeteries can have similar names, so also save the community, county or nearby town.

Save the burial or funeral date. This can help a cemetery office locate an interment register when there are multiple people with the same name.

Note relatives listed in the obituary. Parents, spouses and siblings can help confirm a family plot or distinguish between two similar records.

Verify the final grave location. An obituary provides an important burial clue, but plot, section, lot or grave-number confirmation may require the cemetery record.

For a broader burial-search workflow, use the FindAGraves grave and cemetery research guide .

If No Obituary Exists: Check Kentucky Death Records

If the person died in Kentucky and you need formal death information rather than a funeral notice, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics is the official state source.

Kentucky states that its Office of Vital Statistics holds death records from 1911 to the present for deaths occurring in Kentucky. To search for a death certificate, the state asks for the decedent’s full name, date of death and county of death.

Current state fee: Kentucky lists a $6 non-refundable search fee for a death certificate. A fee can still apply when the requested record is not found, so confirm the details before submitting an application.

Open Kentucky’s official death-certificate page. Use the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services website rather than an unrelated record-selling website.

Prepare the person’s identifying information. Have the full name at death, complete death date and Kentucky county of death.

Choose the state’s purchase method. Follow the current mail, in-person or authorized ordering instructions shown by Kentucky.

Use the certificate to confirm your research. Compare the official death information with the obituary, funeral-home details and burial clues you already collected.

Kentucky Death Certificates → Kentucky Certificate Purchase Options →

Before You Attend a Visitation or Funeral

Reopen the individual obituary on the day you plan to attend.
Confirm whether the event is at the funeral home, church, cemetery or another location.
Check whether the time shown is visitation, funeral service, celebration of life or graveside service.
Confirm Eastern Time when traveling from another time zone.
If anything is unclear, call Engle-Bowling at 606-436-2131 before leaving.

Official Sources Used for This Guide

Official Obituary Search → Engle-Bowling Funeral Home → Official Contact Information → Official Funeral Services →

Engle Bowling Funeral Home Obituaries FAQs

1. Where can I find Engle Bowling Funeral Home obituaries?

Use the official Engle-Bowling Funeral Home obituary page at englebowlingfuneralhome.com/obituaries. It provides the most direct route to notices published by the funeral home.

2. How do I search older Engle-Bowling obituaries?

Search by surname first, then use the date-of-death range and obituary-text search. Also try maiden names, nicknames, initials and alternate spellings.

3. Does Engle-Bowling have a phone line for obituary information?

Yes. The funeral home publishes a 24-hour obituary line at 606-436-4725.

4. What is the Engle-Bowling Funeral Home phone number?

The main funeral-home number is 606-436-2131.

5. Where is Engle-Bowling Funeral Home located?

The funeral home is located at 301 East Main Street, Hazard, Kentucky 41701-1922.

6. How can I find the visitation or funeral time?

Open the deceased person’s individual obituary and check the service schedule. Confirm both the time and location because some services are held at churches, cemeteries or other venues.

7. Can an obituary help me find the person’s cemetery?

Yes. Many notices identify the cemetery or family cemetery in the service or interment information. Use that as a burial clue, then verify the exact grave location when necessary.

8. What should I do if I cannot find someone’s obituary?

Try alternate spellings, a surname-only search, wider dates and obituary-text search. If you still cannot locate it, call the obituary line or the funeral-home office and provide the person’s full name and approximate death date.

9. Where can I get an official Kentucky death certificate?

Use the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Kentucky maintains death records from 1911 to the present for deaths occurring in the state.

10. Does Engle-Bowling Funeral Home provide cremation services?

Yes. Its official services page lists cremation services, and the funeral home states that it operates an on-site crematory.

Bottom line: For an Engle-Bowling obituary, start with the official obituary search and use its name, text, veteran and date tools. Check the individual notice for the exact service location and burial details. If the record is missing, use the funeral home’s obituary line or Kentucky’s official death-record system instead of relying only on third-party obituary directories.