Morgan Funeral Home Obituaries

Q: What is the Morgan Funeral Home phone number?

Morgan Funeral Home lists the phone number (870) 633-8790.

Q: Does every Morgan Funeral Home obituary list the cemetery?

No. Some notices identify a cemetery and burial schedule, while others may list only a funeral service, a private service or no public burial information.

Q: Can I confirm a funeral time from an obituary?

Yes, when the individual notice contains a service schedule. For time-sensitive travel, confirm current arrangements with the funeral home.

Q: Can a Morgan Funeral Home obituary help me find a grave?

Yes. If the obituary identifies the cemetery, save the cemetery name and burial date and then request plot-level information from the cemetery.

Q: Is an obituary the same as a death certificate?

No. An obituary is a public or family-provided notice, while a death certificate is an official vital record.

Morgan Funeral Home Obituaries in Forrest City, Arkansas

If you are looking for Morgan Funeral Home obituaries, the funeral home involved in this guide is Morgan Funeral Home in Forrest City, Arkansas. Its obituary listings commonly include families from Forrest City and nearby St. Francis County communities, as well as people with family connections elsewhere in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and surrounding areas.

This page gives you the useful information first: recent obituary names, how to search the official obituary archive, what details an obituary page may contain, how to confirm funeral or burial arrangements, and what to do when a person does not appear in the current list.

Funeral Home Morgan Funeral Home

Location Forrest City, Arkansas

Phone (870) 633-8790

Obituary Area St. Francis County and nearby communities

Recent Morgan Funeral Home Obituaries

Quick answer: The official Morgan Funeral Home obituary page is the best place to check the newest notices because listings can be added or corrected after publication. When this guide was reviewed in October 2026, the official obituary archive showed the recent names below among its newest available entries.

Name	Date of Death	Location / Useful Detail
Myrtle Chlodean Faughn Jones	September 24, 2026	Forrest City, Arkansas; funeral service and burial information were published by Morgan Funeral Home.
Vicky Ann Parsley Kennedy	September 22, 2026	Memphis, Tennessee; obituary published through Morgan Funeral Home.
Wesley William Kilgore	August 31, 2026	Forrest City, Arkansas.
Bonnie Faye Delancey	August 5, 2026	Southaven, Mississippi.
Ruby Virginia Wright	August 4, 2026	Wynne, Arkansas.
Christopher Michael Mangrum	July 28, 2026	Memphis, Tennessee.
Kelyn Davis Alford	July 25, 2026	Obituary available in the Morgan Funeral Home archive.
Jeremy Allen Todd	July 3, 2026	Forrest City, Arkansas.
Susan Kay Cagle	June 8, 2026	Palestine, Arkansas.
Tracy Duane Stultz	May 22, 2026	Forrest City, Arkansas; visitation and graveside arrangements were published.

Obituary lists change as new notices are posted. A date in this table is a death date, not necessarily the date the obituary appeared online. Always open the individual notice before making travel or service plans.

Check Current Official Obituaries

How to Find a Morgan Funeral Home Obituary

You usually do not need to browse dozens of pages. Start with the funeral home’s own obituary archive and narrow the result by name.

Open the official obituary page

Go to Morgan Funeral Home’s official obituary listings. This is the most direct source for notices handled by the Forrest City funeral home.

Search the full name first

Use the person’s first and last name. If there is no match, try only the last name, then try a maiden name, nickname, middle name, initials, or a different spelling.

Open the individual obituary

Select the correct person and check the full notice. Do not rely only on a search-result preview because the complete page can contain service times, cemetery details, survivors, memorial information, and later updates.

Verify the service status

Look for labels such as visitation, funeral service, celebration of life, graveside service, burial, or past services. If the service is upcoming, confirm the time before traveling.

Call if a critical detail is missing

If you need immediate confirmation, call Morgan Funeral Home at (870) 633-8790. This is especially useful for last-minute schedule changes, cemetery directions, private services, or notices that have not yet appeared online.

What Information Can Be Included in an Obituary?

A Morgan Funeral Home obituary can contain much more than a death announcement. The exact information differs by family, but a full notice may provide several of the following details.

Personal information

Full name, maiden name, nickname, age, birth date, death date, hometown, residence, parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandchildren, occupation, church, military service, hobbies, and community involvement.

Funeral information

Visitation date, funeral time, chapel or church name, officiating minister, graveside service, celebration of life, and whether a service is private.

Burial details

Cemetery name, burial time, cemetery address, or another location clue that can help you continue to grave or family-history research.

Memorial options

Some notices offer a guestbook, memorial tree, flower option, charitable donation request, or other family-specified way to remember the person.

Useful research tip: If you are researching family history, save the obituary’s exact spelling of the person’s name, parents’ names, spouse, siblings, place of residence, cemetery, and service date. Those details can help distinguish people with similar names.

Morgan Funeral Home Address, Phone Number, and Location

Funeral Home	Morgan Funeral Home
Street Address	2605 South Washington Street, Forrest City, Arkansas 72335
Phone	(870) 633-8790
Area Served	Forrest City, St. Francis County, and surrounding communities
Official Website	morgan-funeralhome.com
Official Obituaries	View current obituary notices

Morgan Funeral Home describes itself as a family-owned, full-service funeral home and lists funeral services, monuments, insurance, advance planning, veterans services, and memorial options on its website.

Before driving to a service: Check the individual obituary again or call the funeral home. Funeral times, visitation periods, burial locations, and private-family arrangements can change.

What to Do If the Obituary Is Not Listed

A missing search result does not automatically mean Morgan Funeral Home was not involved. Online archives can be incomplete, older records may use a previous website system, and a family may choose a limited or private notice.

Try these searches in order

Search only the person’s surname.
Try a maiden name or previous married surname.
Try a commonly used nickname instead of the legal first name.
Search initials, especially for older notices.
Check spelling variations and common transcription errors.
Search the spouse, parent, child, or sibling’s name if you are doing genealogy research.
Look several days before and after the expected death date.
Check whether the person lived outside Forrest City but had family in St. Francis County.

Older Morgan Funeral Home obituary archive

The funeral home’s website also has older obituary records that were created under a previous obituary-page format. That means an older notice may appear differently from the newest listings. If the main archive does not immediately return the record, a broader web search using the person’s full name plus Morgan Funeral Home Forrest City can sometimes reveal the older page.

Best call request: “I am trying to locate an obituary or service record for [full name], who died around [date/year]. Can you tell me whether Morgan Funeral Home handled the arrangements or whether an obituary is available?”

How to Verify Visitation, Funeral, and Burial Details

If you are attending a funeral, the service schedule matters more than the general obituary list. Individual obituary pages can show separate events for visitation, funeral service, celebration of life, graveside service, and burial.

Detail	Where to Check	What to Confirm
Visitation	Individual obituary page	Date, start/end time, venue, and whether public.
Funeral service	Individual obituary page	Church or chapel, exact time, officiant, and special instructions.
Burial	Obituary service schedule	Cemetery name, address, graveside time, and whether procession information is provided.
Private service	Obituary text or funeral-home confirmation	Whether attendance is limited to invited family or friends.
Last-minute change	Funeral home phone	Current time and location before leaving home.

For example, the official notice for Myrtle Chlodean Faughn Jones listed a funeral service at Morgan Funeral Home followed by burial at Forrest Park Cemetery. Other notices may show a graveside service at a different cemetery or a service at a church rather than the funeral-home chapel.

How to Go From an Obituary to a Grave or Cemetery Record

An obituary often gives enough clues to continue a burial search. If your goal is not just to read the notice but to locate the grave, use the information in this order.

Write down the cemetery name exactly

Do not shorten or guess the name. Similar cemetery names can exist in different Arkansas counties.

Save the death and burial dates

The burial date helps a cemetery office locate an interment record when several people have the same surname.

Save family names

A spouse, parent, or child may be buried in the same family plot. This is valuable when the individual grave is unmarked or not indexed online.

Ask the cemetery for plot-level confirmation

Request the section, lot, row, plot, grave number, interment date, and any available cemetery map rather than asking only whether the person is buried there.

Cross-check before adding genealogy data

Compare the obituary with the cemetery record, death certificate, headstone, funeral-home record, or another primary source whenever possible.

For a broader burial-research workflow, visit the FindAGraves cemetery and grave-search guide, which explains official veteran locators, death-record routes, cemetery-office verification, spelling variations, and grave-location research.

Finding Older Death and Burial Records in Arkansas

If the person died long before the current online obituary archive, the search may need to move from a funeral-home obituary to historical records. Start with what you already know from family papers, a memorial card, church record, newspaper clipping, or cemetery inscription.

Information worth collecting first

Full legal name and known nicknames
Maiden or previous married names
Approximate birth and death year
Last known city and county
Spouse and parents
Church or denomination
Funeral home
Cemetery name
Military service, if applicable

If you need a certified death record rather than an obituary, use the appropriate Arkansas vital-record process. An obituary is a family or funeral notice; a death certificate is an official vital record. They serve different purposes and may contain different information.

For grave research, you can also use FindAGraves.com as a starting point for official death-record, veteran-grave, cemetery-office, archive, and burial-verification routes.

Which Source Should You Use?

Your Goal	Best Starting Point	Why
Read a recent obituary	Morgan Funeral Home obituary page	Direct source for notices published by the funeral home.
Attend an upcoming service	Individual obituary + funeral-home phone	Lets you confirm time, address, and last-minute changes.
Find a cemetery	Burial section of the obituary	May provide cemetery name and service location.
Find an old obituary	Older funeral-home archive + name variations	Older pages may use a different archive format.
Obtain a legal death record	Official state vital-record office	A death certificate is an official record, unlike an obituary.
Locate an exact grave	Cemetery office or interment register	May provide section, lot, plot, row, or grave number.

Important Difference: Obituary, Funeral Notice, and Death Record

Obituary

A biographical notice about the deceased. It may list family members, life history, service arrangements, memorial requests, and cemetery information.

Funeral notice

Usually focuses on visitation, funeral, graveside, or memorial-service information. It may contain fewer biographical details.

Death certificate

An official vital record issued through the applicable government authority. Access rules can depend on the record’s age and the requester’s eligibility.

Cemetery record

An interment or plot record that can provide burial date, cemetery section, lot, grave number, or plot-owner information.

Morgan Funeral Home Obituaries FAQs

1. Where can I find Morgan Funeral Home obituaries?

For the Forrest City, Arkansas funeral home, use the official Morgan Funeral Home obituary page. It is the most direct place to check recent notices handled by this funeral home.

2. Is this Morgan Funeral Home located in Forrest City, Arkansas?

Yes. The Morgan Funeral Home covered in this guide is located at 2605 South Washington Street in Forrest City, Arkansas.

3. What is the Morgan Funeral Home phone number?

The funeral home lists (870) 633-8790. Call when you need immediate confirmation of an obituary, service time, location, or funeral arrangement.

4. How do I search for an older Morgan Funeral Home obituary?

Search the surname first, then try maiden names, nicknames, initials, and spelling variations. Older notices may be stored in a different archive format than current obituaries, so searching the full name together with “Morgan Funeral Home Forrest City” can also help.

5. Does every Morgan Funeral Home obituary list the cemetery?

No. Some notices include a specific cemetery and burial schedule, while others may list only a funeral service, private service, or no public burial information.

6. Can I confirm a funeral time from an obituary?

Yes, when the individual notice includes a service schedule. If you are traveling or the service is soon, confirm the time with the funeral home because arrangements can change.

7. What should I do if the person’s name is missing?

Try alternate spellings, maiden names, nicknames, relatives’ names, and a broader date range. If you still cannot locate the record, call the funeral home with the person’s full name and approximate death date.

8. Can a Morgan Funeral Home obituary help me find a grave?

Often, yes. If the obituary identifies the cemetery, save that name along with the death and burial dates, then contact the cemetery for section, lot, plot, row, or grave-number information.

9. Is an obituary the same as a death certificate?

No. An obituary is a public or family-provided notice. A death certificate is an official vital record and may have eligibility, identification, and fee requirements.

10. How often should I check for a newly published obituary?

If a death is very recent, check the official obituary page again later and contact the funeral home when the information is time-sensitive. A notice may not appear immediately after the death.

Final Takeaway

For Morgan Funeral Home obituaries in Forrest City, Arkansas, begin with the funeral home’s official obituary archive. Search the person’s complete name, open the individual notice, and check the service schedule rather than relying on a short search preview. If the obituary is old or missing, try alternate names and dates or contact the funeral home directly.

If your purpose is genealogy or grave location research, use the obituary as a starting document: record the cemetery name, relatives, dates, and locations, then verify the burial with cemetery or official records. This gives you a stronger result than depending on a single online listing.

Official resources: Morgan Funeral Home website · Official obituaries · FindAGraves grave and cemetery research guide

Funeral and obituary information can change. For an upcoming service, verify current arrangements directly with Morgan Funeral Home before traveling.