Three chapels — Fountain City, Halls, and Powell. The same family answering the phone, day or night, since the year your great-grandparents were children.
A licensed funeral director is awake, listening, and ready to help you take the next small step — at any hour.
A funeral is not a transaction. It is a moment a family will remember for the rest of their lives. We treat it that way, every time.
In 1900, Ernest Mynatt sold his first casket out of the back of a hardware store in Halls Crossroads. He built it himself, from yellow pine.
His son Kyle turned that small trade into the Fountain City chapel that still stands on Rennoc Road. Bud Coomer, Ronald Hill, and Mary married into the family and never left. Today Buddy Coomer, Angie Hill, and the rest of the family are still here — fifty-seven of us, in three chapels across Knox County. None of us call this a job.
Read our story →From the most traditional to the simplest cremation. Nothing is added that you did not ask for. Nothing is left out that matters.
Planning a funeral in advance is one of the kindest things you can do for the people you love. It removes a hundred small decisions from a day that will already be hard.
There is no cost to sit with us. No paperwork is signed unless you ask. We will come to your kitchen table if that is easier.
Start a quiet conversation →"We are not in the business of selling funerals. We are in the business of being there when a family needs us."
— Buddy Coomer, fourth-generation ownerTwo certified Grief Recovery Specialists are on staff. A free support group meets the second Tuesday of every month at our Fountain City chapel — open to anyone, regardless of whether we served your family.
Resources and support →Flag folding and presentation. Honor guard coordination. VA paperwork done by directors who have walked it through a hundred times. For every branch, every era. No charge for the help.
Veteran services →If you would like to walk through one of our chapels, or simply talk about what you might want for yourself or someone you love — there is never any pressure, and never any cost.