Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home Obituaries

Q: Can I use an obituary as a death certificate?

No. An obituary is not a certified legal record. For official proof of an Iowa death, follow Iowa Health and Human Services vital-record procedures.

Q: How do I find a veteran's grave after reading the obituary?

Use the full name, birth date, death date and military clues from the obituary to search the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator.

Davenport, Iowa obituary guide

Find Recent Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Obituaries and Service Details

If you are looking for Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home obituaries, the fastest route is the funeral home’s own obituary listing. It includes recent death notices and, when available, visitation times, funeral or memorial service details, burial information, livestream links, memorial instructions, guestbook options, and family information.

This guide brings the important search steps together so you do not have to move between several obituary websites just to work out what to do next. Use the official listing for the live obituary itself, then use the verification steps below if you need a death certificate, veteran burial location, cemetery clue, or older record.

Information check: funeral-home contact information and the recent-obituary snapshot below were reviewed on October 26, 2026. Obituary listings can change at any time as new notices are published or service details are updated.

Funeral home Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home

Location 614 Main Street, Davenport, IA 52803

Phone 563-322-4438

Email info@hmdfuneralhome.com

Recent Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Obituary Snapshot

The funeral home’s official obituary list was showing the following recent names when checked on October 26, 2026. This is a research snapshot, not a permanent archive. Always open the live obituary listing before traveling to a visitation, funeral, church, cemetery, or celebration of life because service arrangements can be revised.

Name	Listed date	Useful next step
Connie Jo Rashid	October 21, 2026	Open the official obituary for funeral, burial and visitation information.
Mark P. Garnica	October 21, 2026	Review the individual obituary for the complete service schedule.
Barbara “Barb” Dickinson	October 20, 2026	Confirm church, visitation and burial details before attending.
William Joseph Kozlowski	October 19, 2026	Use the official notice for current memorial and service information.
Linda M. Kerch	October 19, 2026	Check the obituary page for service and cemetery details.
Roger Wayne Moyer	October 18, 2026	Read the full notice for celebration-of-life information.
Margaret Mary Carpenter	October 18, 2026	Review the current notice for cremation and memorial arrangements.
Jeanne C. Walsh	October 16, 2026	Open the official obituary for the complete family and service notice.
Michael John Everetts	October 15, 2026	Confirm visitation and celebration-of-life times on the live page.
Ralph A. “Skip” Wiese	October 14, 2026	Check the live notice for Mass, visitation and burial information.

Looking for the newest notice?

Go directly to the funeral home’s live obituary page rather than relying on a cached search result. The official page includes a “Find a loved one” search field and an option to subscribe for obituary updates.

Open Official Obituary Listing

How to Search Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home Obituaries

You normally do not need a third-party obituary site if you know that Halligan-McCabe-DeVries handled the arrangements. Start with the official obituary database and narrow your search there.

1 Open the official obituary listing. Visit the funeral home’s obituary page. This is the best place to check newly published notices and recent service information.

2 Search the surname first. If a full-name search gives no result, enter only the last name. A notice may use a middle initial, nickname, maiden name, shortened first name, or a different spelling than the name you entered.

3 Open the individual obituary. Do not rely only on the short preview card. The individual page may contain visitation hours, Mass or funeral time, memorial service location, cemetery information, livestream details, memorial requests, guestbook options and family information.

4 Check every service date carefully. The death date and service date are different fields. A funeral may be held several days or weeks later. Also check whether the visitation is at the funeral home, a church, another venue, or directly before the service.

5 Confirm before traveling. If the service is upcoming, re-open the official notice on the day you plan to attend. Families sometimes change times, locations, livestream arrangements or other details.

Search variants that often work:

Try a legal first name and nickname separately, a maiden and married surname, initials, common spelling variations, and just the surname. For an older notice, add an approximate death year to your own notes before contacting the funeral home.

What Information Can You Find in an Obituary?

A Halligan-McCabe-DeVries obituary can be useful for much more than confirming that a person died. Depending on what the family chose to publish, the notice may provide several details that help with funeral attendance, family-history research or burial verification.

Obituary detail	Why it matters
Date and place of death	Helps distinguish people with similar names and points you toward the correct jurisdiction for a death record.
Visitation date and time	Tells you when family and friends may gather before the funeral or memorial service.
Funeral, Mass or memorial service	Provides the scheduled time and location for the main service.
Burial or inurnment location	Can identify the cemetery and sometimes confirm whether burial is private or public.
Cremation information	Explains whether cremation has been chosen and whether a later memorial or burial of cremated remains is planned.
Family relationships	Parents, spouse, children and siblings can help confirm identity and support genealogy research.
Military service	Can help you continue the search through official veteran burial records.
Memorial instructions	May identify a charity, church, family memorial fund, flowers or another family preference.

For grave research, save the person’s full name, death date, cemetery name, burial date, spouse or parent names, and any veteran-service information. Those details make later cemetery and government-record searches much faster.

If your next goal is locating a burial rather than only reading the obituary, the FindAGraves official-source grave research guide explains how obituary clues, cemetery records, veteran records and death records can be combined to verify a final resting place.

What to Do If You Cannot Find the Obituary

A missing search result does not automatically mean Halligan-McCabe-DeVries did not handle the arrangements. Older notices may be harder to locate, a name may be indexed differently, or a family may have chosen limited public information.

Use this order before searching the wider web

Search only the last name on the official obituary page.
Try a maiden name, married name, nickname or middle name.
Check the approximate death year rather than assuming the current year.
Search the spouse, parent, sibling or child if family names are known.
Call the funeral home if you know approximately when the death or service occurred.

What to have ready when you call:

Give the deceased person’s full name, possible alternate spelling, approximate date of death, approximate service year, last known city, spouse or close relative, and any cemetery or church clue you already have. This is much more useful than asking only whether the funeral home “has an obituary.”

For older genealogy research, an obituary should be treated as one strong clue rather than the only proof. Compare important facts with cemetery records, a certified death record, church records, veteran burial information or other primary records when possible.

Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home Contact Information

Funeral home details

Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home
614 Main Street
Davenport, IA 52803

Phone: 563-322-4438
Email: info@hmdfuneralhome.com

Official Contact Page

Useful reasons to call

Confirm an upcoming service
Ask about an older obituary
Verify burial or cremation arrangements
Discuss funeral planning
Ask for current pricing

The funeral home’s website states that the business has been family owned and operated since 1889. Its site also provides obituary alerts, grief-support resources, preplanning information and service information.

Funeral, Cremation and Planning Services

Someone searching an obituary may also need to understand what happens next. Halligan-McCabe-DeVries lists traditional funeral services, cremation services, personalization options and veteran services among its offerings.

Traditional and memorial services

Service arrangements can include a visitation, funeral or memorial service, church service, graveside service, burial or other family-selected gathering. The exact plan depends on the deceased person’s wishes and the family’s choices.

Cremation options

The funeral home’s cremation information explains that families may choose a traditional funeral followed by cremation, a memorial service, a graveside service for cremated remains, placement in a columbarium, in-ground burial of an urn, keeping an urn at home or scattering where legally permitted.

Preplanning

The funeral home also offers advance planning. Its preplanning guidance recommends recording whether burial or cremation is preferred, the desired service type, cemetery choice, participants, music, obituary information and other personal wishes before they are needed.

Need funeral pricing?

Do not rely on old third-party price estimates. The Federal Trade Commission’s Funeral Rule gives consumers the right to receive price information by telephone when they ask, and a funeral provider must provide a General Price List when you visit in person. Ask Halligan-McCabe-DeVries directly for current itemized pricing and what is included in any package.

Read the FTC Funeral Rule

Need Proof of Death? Use Iowa Vital Records

An obituary is a public notice, not a certified death certificate. If you need legal proof for an estate, insurance, benefits, property, financial accounts or another official purpose, use Iowa’s certified vital-record process.

Iowa Health and Human Services states that statewide registration of births, deaths and marriages began on July 1, 1880. The current state fee is $20 for each record search, with a certified copy issued when the record is found. The fee is retained even when the record cannot be located.

1 Start with Iowa Health and Human Services. Open the official certified-record instructions and review eligibility, identification and ordering methods.

2 Choose the correct office. County recorders can issue certified copies of deaths from 1954 to the present. Older records may require the county where the person lived or where the death occurred, depending on the record.

3 Check whether you are eligible. Iowa restricts certified vital records. The applicant generally needs a direct and tangible interest, such as being the person named on the record, a qualifying family member, guardian or legal representative.

4 Use the obituary to reduce errors. Take the full legal name, death date, death location and family relationships from the obituary and compare them with your application before submitting it.

Iowa Certified Record Instructions

Iowa HHS also advises families to review death-certificate information carefully before filing. Funeral homes commonly help collect the information needed for the death record and can guide families when corrections are required.

If the Obituary Mentions Military Service or a Veteran Cemetery

Several Davenport-area obituaries may mention military service or burial at a national cemetery. When that happens, the obituary can be combined with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator.

The VA locator can contain burial information for Veterans and eligible family members in VA national cemeteries, many state veteran cemeteries, certain other military cemeteries and some private-cemetery graves associated with government markers.

Micro-step veteran grave search

Copy the veteran’s full name exactly as shown in the obituary.
Write down the birth and death dates if available.
Open the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
Search the surname and first name, then add dates if needed.
Save the cemetery name, section, grave or site number, service branch and dates shown in the result.
If the record looks incorrect, verify it directly with the cemetery or VA rather than changing your family tree from one online source.

Open VA Gravesite Locator

For a broader burial-research workflow, you can also use the FindAGraves grave-search resource hub to compare obituary details with cemetery, veteran and official-record clues.

Official Resources Used for This Guide

These links are included so you can go directly to the source only when an action or live verification is needed:

Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home Obituaries FAQs

1. Where can I find the newest Halligan-McCabe-DeVries obituaries?

Use the obituary section on the official Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home website. It is the best source for newly published notices and current service information.

2. Can I search Halligan-McCabe-DeVries obituaries by name?

Yes. The official obituary page includes a loved-one search. Start with the surname if a full-name search does not work, then try nicknames, maiden names, married names and spelling variations.

3. What is the Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home address?

The funeral home’s official contact page lists 614 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa 52803.

4. What is the funeral home’s phone number?

The listed phone number is 563-322-4438. Calling is useful when you need to confirm a service, ask about an older notice or discuss arrangements.

5. Why can I not find an older obituary online?

The obituary may use a different spelling, nickname or surname, or an older notice may not be easy to retrieve through the current search. Search name variants first, then contact the funeral home with the person’s name and approximate death year.

6. Does an obituary show the cemetery?

Many notices identify the cemetery or burial location, but not every obituary includes that information. Some services or burials are private. If a cemetery is listed, verify the exact section or grave location with the cemetery office when you need plot-level information.

7. Can I use an obituary as a death certificate?

No. An obituary can help confirm names, dates and family relationships, but it is not a certified legal record. For official proof of an Iowa death, follow Iowa Health and Human Services vital-record procedures.

8. How do I find a veteran’s grave after reading the obituary?

Take the full name, birth date, death date and military clues from the obituary and search the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator. If the result is incomplete or incorrect, verify the information with the cemetery or VA.

9. Does Halligan-McCabe-DeVries offer cremation services?

Yes. The funeral home’s official service pages describe cremation options that may include a traditional service followed by cremation, memorial services, graveside services and several choices for the final placement of cremated remains.

10. How can I get current funeral pricing?

Contact the funeral home directly and ask for current itemized pricing or its General Price List. Avoid relying on old third-party estimates because funeral costs and selected services can change.

Best Next Step

If you are searching for a specific person, start with the official Halligan-McCabe-DeVries obituary listing and search the surname. Open the full obituary to confirm service and burial information. Use the funeral home directly only when the notice is missing or you need current arrangements, and use Iowa HHS or the VA when you need official record verification rather than simply an obituary notice.