Excelsior Springs has a new funeral home.
Hidden Valley Funeral Home of Excelsior Springs East was approved for licensure last week and opened for business on Tuesday, Dec. 22.
It’s the third location for Hidden Valley Funeral Home and Cremation Services, which was founded in Kearney and opened a second location in Lawson. A fourth funeral home—also in Excelsior Springs, along N. Jesse James Road near the intersection of N. Titus Avenue—is also planned.
And the new site east of Excelsior Springs, at 5951 E. Highway 10, is one that’s quite familiar to local residents. Until earlier this year, it was the site of Polley Funeral Home. It hasn’t been used much since Polley left the profession following a series of personal problems, though for a while it was utilized by Cashatt Family Funeral Home, which entered into a partnership with Polley prior to his arrest for suspected drug use in the first quarter of 2015.
But Hidden Valley purchased the building this fall and began renovations even as they waited for a license to be approved.
Hidden Valley co-owner Darla Staton said Curt Sharp and Tim Stone are the funeral directors for all of the company’s locations.
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