O'Leary Funeral & Cremation Services

O’Leary’s Celebration of Life Center honoring our 5th full-year in Norwalk

Eric O’Leary is honored to call Norwalk his home and where he is the “proud father” to his 3 year old son, Conor. Eric lives and works in Norwalk. As a resident he likes working in his yard and is always willing to lend a helping-hand to a fellow neighbor. As a for work Eric has chosen Norwalk to continue a life long dream of owning and operating his very own funeral, cremation and flower business.

Since the young age of 11, Eric had the calling to be a funeral director. He knew most of his great-grandparents, great- aunts and uncles, and all of his grandparents. While growing up there was a span of a few years that he was always going somewhere in Iowa to attend a relatives funeral. Unknow to him at the time this would be Eric’s calling in life. He started working in one of the local funeral homes in Newton while attending college. He attended Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, IL learning invaluable knowledge and skills. Following his college graduation in September 1996 he returned to Newton completing his internship and completing his funeral director license requirements. Eric continued to work in his home town of Newton; worked in Winterset for a couple of years; and moved to Southfield, Michigan in 2002 where he would eventually move up in a company where he gained management skills; continuing to serve the families and develop life-long friendships some of which are yet his closet friends today.

Eric is dedicated to his chosen profession by always available days, nights, weekends, and holidays to always ready to anwer the phone for a family needing his services, to help coordinate services, or to just be available for someone who at that moment needs a friend.

Eric is a selfless person; often times placing the families he’s had the honor to serve before his own needs and family. Eric has missed several holiday meals and events such as music concerts, sport games, church activities, amd scheduled holiday trips that ALL had to be cancelled at the very last minute. The families that have come to know Eric as someone that cares for their loved one [that died] like a member of his own family; and they will never realize all the sacrafices he makes or the long hours he works. What the O’Leary families do know and come to expect is that regardless of the day of the week or the time of the day; Eric is there for them;helping today, helping tomorrow, and always there to provide emotional comfort, guidance and support for each and everyone of them.

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