Shannon Funeral Service

12/20/2025

10 years ago today, my father, Bill Shannon, passed away. Being a family that was instilled with faith from both of our parents, the Shannon family found comfort in Mark Schultz’s song “Different Kind of Christmas”— we even played it at Dad’s funeral. (Near the end of the song, the words rang especially true to us.)

Maybe this song may be helpful to you this year. My prayer is that if this Christmas is a little bit “different” because of a loss in your family that you would find hope in the baby that grew to become a Savior, the Savior.

Mark Schultz performs his holiday single Different Kind of Christmas live. Available on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/different-kind-christmas-...

06/21/2025

Martha Hall, Shannon's office manager, recently received her 50-year certificate at our state convention for her being licensed as a Kentucky funeral director. Thank you Martha for the hard work and invaluable contributions you consistently make to help families during their grief!

05/25/2025

Today!

05/20/2025

Great news! I was able to reactivate this funeral home page by following some simple instructions from Facebook.

03/06/2025

Apparently, there is a systemwide outage for AT&T phone service. If you need to reach us at the Funeral Home, please feel free to call us at 502-321-4483. 

01/17/2025

It is with great sadness that we share that we lost one of our former employees this week, Charlie Austin. Charlie began working at Shannon’s in 1979 and was instrumental in my early days in learning the funeral business and I am greatly in his debt. Charlie served our firm very well over the years, as well as the community, and the church community. I am so thankful for his life!

Joseph Charles Charlie Austin, Sr., age 77, was born February 20, 1947 in Fulton, KY. He died January 14, 2025 in Shelbyville, KY. He was drafted into the Army and served 2 years in active duty and 4 years in the Army Reserves. He then attended and graduated from the

12/25/2024

May God truly bless you this holy day!

07/04/2024

Freedom!!!

05/14/2024

Good to know?

The final type of cremation service that funeral homes offer is Cremation With A Full Funeral Service and Casket Of Your Choice.

This is a great option for families who wish to have a traditional visitation and funeral (or celebration of life), but still wish to have cremation after a service. Most everything is planned just like a traditional visitation and funeral, normally including embalming, but with the following exceptions:

1. Most families choose between a wooden or metal rental/ceremonial casket. A rental/ceremonial casket is a casket where we use the outer part many times, but an insert with pillow and bedding is used for where the deceased will lie. When funeral services are completed, the insert (with the deceased) is removed and a new insert replaces the old insert. The insert with the deceased has a lid that is placed on it, and that is taken to the crematory.

2. Some families choose a regular casket for the services. If the casket is wooden, normally that casket can be taken to the crematory when funeral services are completed. Since crematories would not be able to cremate a metal casket, if a family choose a metal casket, when funeral services are complete, the body would be removed and placed into a cremation tray—a cardboard container suitable for cremation. Since it would not be ethical to re-use a metal casket that has been used in this type of service, arrangements would have to be made to responsibly dispose of the (now empty) casket.

3. Once the funeral service is over, funeral attendees would not head to the cemetery. However, once cremation is completed, many families choose to take their loved one’s cremated remains to a cemetery for burial. Sometimes that burial is public and sometimes it is private.

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04/13/2024

Today we lay to rest a former employee who worked for us in the 60s and 70s, Morgan Harney. We are honored to have had Morgan work for us!

Morgan went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on April 6, 2024 at 135 in the morning. He passed away very peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Morgan is survived by his wife of 56 years, Sandra Kay Reiss Harney FL, his sons William Glenn

04/01/2024

Good to know?

The next type of cremation service that funeral homes offer is Cremation with a Memorial Service.

This option is similar to Cremation Without A Service, BUT with one main difference: The family is asking the funeral home to help facilitate a memorial service at the funeral home or at another facility. A memorial service can be similar to a funeral, except the body is not present. (The family chooses whether or not the urn with the cremated remains should be present or not.)

If the family chooses for an urn to be present, they can use the temporary urn provided by the crematory, select an urn from the funeral home, or purchase an urn from another vendor. On some occasions, the family may bring in a suitable container to be used as an urn.

At the memorial service there is usually one or more speakers who share and there is often music. The music can be recorded or live.

Many people appreciate Cremation With A Memorial Service because it gives the family and public an opportunity for emotional closure and to honor a life that was well-lived.