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50+ Years
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Seattle's Trusted Funeral & Cremation Services Since 1907
Harvey Funeral Home stands as a testament to enduring family legacy and community dedication since its founding in 1907. As one of Seattle's oldest businesses and a cornerstone of the Rainier Valley community, we have consistently provided compassionate funeral and cremation services with a personal touch. Our commitment to excellence is rooted in generations of experience, beginning with Fred and Georgia Rasmussen and continuing through the Lewis family's stewardship before being entrusted to the Weeks family in 2006. We offer comprehensive services including traditional funerals, cremation options, memorial planning, and pre-arranged funeral services tailored to individual preferences. Our historic Seattle location at 4567 Rainier Ave S remains a recognizable landmark known for its immaculate grounds and cherished annual Christmas display.With additional locations across Washington state in Enumclaw, Buckley, Tacoma, Kent, Centralia, and Gig Harbor, we maintain our founding mission of delivering dignified, personalized care to families during their most difficult moments. Our team of certified professionals combines technical expertise with genuine empathy, ensuring every service honors the unique life being celebrated. Beyond funeral services, we provide valuable resources for veterans benefits, grief support, and aftercare through our innovative digital obituary platform. Through evolving times and technological advancements, our core values of family ownership, community involvement, and unwavering compassion have remained steadfast for over a century.
Services
Funeral Services
Cremation Services
Memorial Planning
Pre-Need Arrangements
Veterans Benefits
Digital Obituaries
Community Outreach
Details
- Year established: 1907
Highlights and features
- Family-owned since 1907 with generations of funeral service expertise
- Multiple locations serving Puget Sound and surrounding Washington areas
- Personalized digital obituary pages with photo memories and tributes
- 24/7 availability for immediate compassionate support
- Certified funeral professionals with technical and emotional expertise
What people say
Compassionate support
Professional expertise
Smooth arrangements
Respectful care
Genuine empathy
Services
Funeral Services
We provide comprehensive funeral services tailored to individual preferences with personalized tributes that honor each unique life. Our experienced directors handle all arrangements including visitations, ceremonies, and burial coordination while offering compassionate guidance through the planning process. With multiple chapels across Washington, we accommodate diverse cultural traditions and family needs.
Cremation Services
Our cremation services offer respectful alternatives to traditional funerals with flexible memorialization choices. We provide direct cremation without formal ceremony or comprehensive packages that include memorial services. Certified crematory operators maintain strict protocols ensuring dignity and accuracy throughout the process while supporting families through decision-making.
Pre-Need Arrangements
Advance funeral planning allows individuals to document preferences and alleviate decision-making burden from loved ones. We guide clients through all service options, from basic arrangements to customized tributes with financial planning assistance available through trusted partners to establish pre-paid plans.
Digital Obituaries
Our digital platform preserves legacies through interactive online memorials featuring biographies, photographs, and guest contributions. Families receive complimentary access to these permanent tribute pages that support ongoing remembrance with social sharing tools and memory-keeping features.
Veterans Benefits
Specialized services connect families with entitled military funeral benefits including flag presentations, rifle salutes, and official documentation assistance. Our staff has extensive experience coordinating with the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure eligible veterans receive appropriate honors.
People
Russ Weeks
President, Funeral Director, Embalmer
Russ Weeks leads with over 20 years funeral service experience, combining technical expertise with compassionate care. He ensures our family-owned values guide every service while maintaining industry certifications for professional excellence.
Doug Weeks
Vice President
As CPA and financial strategist, Doug Weeks manages operational excellence while upholding our family business traditions. His leadership ensures financial transparency and long-term sustainability for continued community service.
Nichole Rager
Chief Financial Officer
Nichole Rager brings decade-long funeral service experience blending financial expertise with client-focused operations management. Her leadership maintains fiscal responsibility while prioritizing personalized family support during challenging times.
Diego Patlan
Funeral Director
Certified funeral professional Diego Patlan provides compassionate support with multilingual communication skills. His expertise ensures culturally sensitive arrangements while guiding families through complex decision-making processes with empathy.
Questions
What funeral services do you offer?
We provide traditional funerals, cremation services, memorial planning, and pre-need arrangements tailored to personal preferences.
Can I plan a funeral in advance?
Yes, our pre-need planning service helps document your wishes and offers financial planning options to ease future burden on loved ones.
Do you serve multiple locations?
We operate locations in Seattle, Enumclaw, Buckley, Tacoma, Kent, Centralia, Gig Harbor, and Bremerton across Washington state.
What veterans benefits do you handle?
We coordinate military funeral honors including flag presentation, official documentation, and VA benefit claims for eligible veterans.
How do digital obituaries work?
Our online tribute pages preserve memories with biographies, photos, and family contributions accessible to loved ones worldwide.
Are you available for emergencies?
Our compassionate team remains available 24/7 to provide immediate support when a loved one passes unexpectedly.
Reviews (4)
Nancy D.
May 17, 2019
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Tom Harvey,
I'm rarely at loss for words however Harvey Funeral Home has my cup runeth over. If ever a perfect vision of losing a loved one/sending them off in finest care trust/compassion its this family owned funeral home. My mom Mary De Leonardis greeted accompanied by folks at The Harvey Funeral Home morning she passed away.
Easter Sunday the funeral home arrived at her door with tears/sadness in our eyes entered with kindness care and utmost class. Not for a moment was doubt in mind Mary D would love these people/honored to go with them in safety. Within one week of contacting
I'm rarely at loss for words however Harvey Funeral Home has my cup runeth over. If ever a perfect vision of losing a loved one/sending them off in finest care trust/compassion its this family owned funeral home. My mom Mary De Leonardis greeted accompanied by folks at The Harvey Funeral Home morning she passed away.
Easter Sunday the funeral home arrived at her door with tears/sadness in our eyes entered with kindness care and utmost class. Not for a moment was doubt in mind Mary D would love these people/honored to go with them in safety. Within one week of contacting
Mud M.
Oct 23, 2018
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The Harvey Family have carried on the compassion and honor of being Funeral Directors from their father who imbued in them this vocation throughout decades of directing funeral services throughout the city of Seattle. Just when you think planning a meaningful service begins to overwhelm your family, Tom and his staff provide a confident strength, be it with a reaffirming nod and a smile that everything is going to be perfect, or a story of his experience while planning a family funeral of his own which gave us the reminder that we are not the first and certainly not alone in this venture. There
Thomas M.
Jul 05, 2017
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Tom Harvey, family, and colleagues are amazing. They were extremely compassionate, patient, respectful, and went above and beyond in helping us with the process of a complicated death. Here's what happened: my sister-in-law Martha died suddenly at the age of 33 while studying for her PhD in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Almost all of her family live in Colombia, South America. My wife, Martha's only sister, and I live in North Carolina, USA.
Martha's mom wanted to see her daughter one last time before cremation, but did not have a travel visa to go to Canada and the process for
Martha's mom wanted to see her daughter one last time before cremation, but did not have a travel visa to go to Canada and the process for
Allie S.
Jul 25, 2014
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When my father passed away earlier this month, as you can imagine I was overwhelmed. Thankfully, my family already knew the Harvey family through my grandmother's church and the fact they had taken care of my grandfather's funeral services. As my father passed away in his home, the Harveys had to come out to his house after midnight, and were incredibly professional. When we came in the next day to discuss the arrangements Tom was helpful, asking questions to help formulate exactly the kind of funeral I felt was appropriate. There was no 'upselling' or pushiness, just sensitivity
