Major Erickson Funeral Home

Major Erickson Funeral Home maintains planning professionals who guide families through funeral prearrangement, including decisions on burial or cremation, service format, and cemetery selection. The funeral home also provides educational resources for families navigating grief and funeral attendance, offering guidance on speaking with children about death in age-appropriate terms and outlining expectations for visitation and service conduct, such as appropriate timing, condolence etiquette, and protocols for flowers or sympathy cards.

The funeral home is located at 111 N Pennsylvania Ave in Mason City, a community in north-central Iowa's Cerro Gordo County. The location serves families throughout the Mason City area and surrounding communities in the region.

Major Erickson Funeral Home handles approximately 160 cremations annually alongside traditional funeral services. The staff includes funeral directors such as Shelby, Colin, Tyler Schaefer, Dean Cataldo, and Brian Cataldo, who work with families on arrangements ranging from local services to transport and committal services held at distances of several hundred miles. Review data indicates the funeral home has coordinated internments and celebrations of life that required out-of-area logistics, and staff members have assisted families with tasks such as dividing cremated remains among multiple family members.