Huber Funeral Home Obituaries

Recent Huber Funeral Home Obituaries

The following is a dated snapshot of recent names visible in Huber Funeral Home’s official Indiana obituary directory when this guide was researched. It is not a permanent or complete archive.

How to Find a Specific Huber Funeral Home Obituary

1. Open the official obituary page.
   Go to Huber Funeral Home Obituaries.
2. Search the person’s name.
   Start with the last name. If the result does not appear, try the full legal name, nickname, maiden name, married surname or only part of the name.
3. Check the date and community before opening the notice.
   Compare the death date and location with what you already know. Huber’s directory includes people connected with Tell City, Cannelton and surrounding communities, so identical or similar names are possible.
4. Open the individual obituary.
   Look for the full life notice plus the service schedule. Recent pages commonly separate visitation, funeral service, Mass, celebration of life and burial into individual entries.
5. Save the details you actually need.
   Record the service date, local time zone, venue, street address, cemetery name and any memorial-contribution instructions. If you are attending, verify the schedule again shortly before leaving.

What You Can Usually Find on an Individual Obituary Page

How to Check Visitation, Funeral and Burial Details

Do not assume that every event happens at Huber Funeral Home. Individual notices show examples of services at the Tell City chapel, local churches and cemeteries.

• Visitation: confirm both the date and the start/end time.
• Time zone: obituary schedules for this area commonly identify Central Time.
• Service venue: check whether it is Huber Funeral Home, a church or another location.
• Burial: the cemetery may be in Tell City, Cannelton or another nearby community.
• Directions: use the address shown on the individual notice rather than assuming the Tell City chapel.

Huber Funeral Home Locations and Contact Information

Huber Funeral Home publishes two Indiana locations and one main phone number for both.

How Far Back Do Huber Funeral Home Obituaries Go?

The official Huber obituary directory is not limited to only the newest notices. Its paginated archive contains older obituary entries going back many years, making the funeral home’s own directory worth checking before moving to newspaper or genealogy databases.

For an older person, search by surname first. If the exact spelling produces no result, try:

• Maiden and married surnames
• Middle name or middle initial
• Common nickname and legal first name
• Initials instead of full given names
• Spouse, parent, child or sibling name
• Approximate death year rather than an exact date
• Tell City, Cannelton or Perry County as the location clue

If the Obituary Is Not on the Huber Website

A missing website result does not automatically mean Huber Funeral Home did not serve the family. Older notices may have been published differently, search spelling can vary, and some historical information is easier to locate through local newspapers or public records.

1. Search the Huber obituary directory again with fewer words.
   Use only the surname or a distinctive part of the name.
2. Check the Perry County Public Library genealogy resources.
   The library maintains local obituary resources and genealogy material for Perry County research.
   Open Perry County Public Library Genealogy
3. Use the Indiana State Library’s Perry County research guide.
   The official state guide points researchers to Perry County obituary, cemetery, newspaper, vital-record and local-history resources.
   Open Indiana State Library Perry County Guide
4. Search historical Indiana newspapers if the death is old.
   Hoosier State Chronicles is an Indiana State Library digital newspaper program with searchable historical newspaper material.
   Search Hoosier State Chronicles
5. Use a death certificate when you need an official record.
   For an Indiana death, follow the Indiana Department of Health process below.

Getting an Indiana Death Certificate

An obituary and a death certificate serve different purposes. An obituary is a family or funeral notice; a death certificate is an official vital record.

The Indiana Department of Health maintains and issues death certificates for deaths occurring in Indiana. A record for a person who died in another state must be requested from that state’s vital-records authority.

For a death-certificate request, useful identifying information includes the deceased person’s name, date of death, place of death and date of birth. Eligibility and identification requirements can apply to certified records.

For mail orders, Indiana currently lists a fee of $8 for the first death certificate and $4 for each additional copy in the same order. Fees and procedures may change, so confirm the amount on the official ordering page before submitting payment.

Historical Indiana Death Records: Useful Date Ranges

Indiana genealogy research becomes more difficult as records get older. State Library guidance notes that Indiana began issuing birth and death records in 1882, while statewide compliance was not mandatory until 1907.

For Perry County research, the Indiana State Library identifies county death-record indexes, newspapers on microfilm, county histories and other genealogy resources. These sources can be useful when an obituary is too old to appear in a modern funeral-home archive.

How to Turn an Obituary Into a Grave Search

If your real goal is to find the person’s burial place, the obituary is often the strongest starting clue. Save these details before you leave the notice:

• Full name exactly as published
• Birth and death dates
• Cemetery name
• City or county of burial
• Church connected with the service
• Spouse and close relatives
• Funeral-home name
• Service and burial date

Then use those details to verify the burial with cemetery records, a cemetery office, public records or another primary source. Our FindAGraves grave-search resources can help you continue with cemetery, veteran, death-record and burial research.

Can You Leave Condolences or Send Flowers?

Many individual Huber obituary pages include a guestbook or condolence section. Some also display options to send flowers, memorial trees or another sympathy gift. These options are attached to the specific obituary, so open the person’s notice rather than relying on the main obituary list.

For older notices, an online guestbook may remain visible even after the funeral and burial have taken place. Flower or gift availability can differ by notice and date.

Obituary Notifications

Huber’s obituary directory includes a subscription option for alerts when new obituaries are posted. If you are waiting for a notice that has not appeared yet, use the subscription area on the official obituary page instead of repeatedly checking multiple third-party obituary websites.

About Huber Funeral Home in Perry County

Huber Funeral Home traces its Perry County history to 1921. Its official history describes Ivo J. Huber beginning work as a licensed embalmer and funeral director with help from his father, Henry Huber. The Cannelton operation later moved to its Sixth Street location, while the Tell City facility at 1139 12th Street was dedicated in 1986.

The funeral home continues to operate Tell City and Cannelton locations and provides funeral, burial and cremation services. Its service information also covers visitation, funeral, graveside and cremation options.

Frequently Asked Questions