Abbott Funeral Home
PO Box 165
Wabasha, MN 55981
Tel: 651-565-3546

About Us

We are dedicated to serving all people with dignity, care and compassion. We follow a strict code of ethics and treat everyone with utmost respect. We are locally owned and are involved members of the community. This involvement and family ownership assures you that not only are you dealing with your neighbor and possibly your friend but also with someone who has a deep sense of community and pride in ownership. We take great pride in our professional reputation as clinicians of mortuary science and of our care and sensitivity to the families we serve.

We offer a variety of service options, providing you and your family with personalized, meaningful tributes to memorialize your loved one. We arrange every detail for you according to your wishes, allowing you the time to tend to other matters at hand. It is with sincere gratitude and humble pride that we are entrusted with the care of your loved one and are called upon by you to provide a fitting tribute of a life that has lived.

Our Code of Ethics

As funeral directors, we herewith fully acknowledge our individual and collective obligations to the public especially to those we serve and our mutual responsibilities for the proper welfare of the funeral service profession.
To the public we pledge: vigilant support of public health laws; proper legal regulations for the members of our profession; devotion to high moral and service standards; conduct befitting good citizens; honesty in all offerings of service and merchandise and inall business transactions.
To those we serve we pledge: confidential business and professional relationships; cooperation with the customs of all religions and creeds; observance of all respect due the deceased; high standards of competence and dignity in the conduct of all services; truthful representations of all services and merchandise.
To our profession we pledge; support of high educational standards and proper licensing laws; encouragement of scientific research; adherence to sound business pracices; adoption of improved techniques; observance of all rules of fair competition; maintenance of favorable personal relations.

History Of Abbott Funeral Home

The history of Abbott Funeral Home of Wabasha can be traced back to the late 1800’s. The McDonald family operated the funeral home and furniture store in a building on Main Street (the furniture store is still there today). In 1920 E. B. Wise purchased the businesses and operated both businesses there until moving the funeral home to 2nd Street in 1949, converting the old Standard Oil filling station to the funeral home.

In 1960, James D. “Jake” Abbott and family moved from St. Paul, MN, where he worked for O’Halloran and Murphy Funeral Home, to Wabasha, purchasing the businesses from Mr. Wise and naming the funeral home Abbott-Wise Funeral Home. In 1989, Jake’s son, James E. “Jim” Abbott, and his wife, Claire (Marx) and their three children moved back to their hometown from Austin, MN, where Jim worked for several years for the Clasen-Jordan Mortuary and purchased the business from his father. They renamed the business Abbott Funeral Home.

In 1992, Jim purchased the Buckman-Schierts-Koch Funeral Home, also a long time funeral home in Wabasha, and incorporated that concern into his building. Having outgrown the building and the desire to present a modern, pleasing and functional funeral home, Jim acquired two adjacent pieces of properties and built a new facility. The new building was opened in June of 2000, the old building then being demolished and the space being converted to parking. We are pleased to offer this facility to the people of our area.