Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel & Parkview Cemetery

Your trusted Peoria funeral home

Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel has a friendly welcome for everyone who walks through our doors. To complement our warm atmosphere, our spacious funeral home features traditional decor in rich colors, hardwood floors and a lobby filled with natural light.

The large funeral chapel seats up to 200 guests, with chairs that can be configured however you please. We also have a smaller chapel that seats up to 75 guests. Both chapels have flat-screen televisions, DVD/USB capabilities and a modern sound system that allows you to play favorite music or a multimedia tribute—which we are happy to create for you.

Adjoining the small chapel, a flexible space lets you host family and friends before or after a funeral service for visitation or a catered reception. We can offer everything from a breakfast buffet to a cake-and-coffee break to a sit-down dinner with waiter service.

We celebrate life

Offering a myriad of funeral options, Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel strives to help you through one of the more personal and challenging stages of life. We understand that losing a loved one is an emotional and difficult experience, and we are committed to providing compassionate, professional and personal care. We also want to help you celebrate life with a funeral or memorial service as unique as your loved one.

We can help arrange a processional of wreckers for your tow truck driver, a lap around the Peoria Speedway for your race fan or a Ferris wheel for your state fair fiend. Start with a story—we'll take it from there.

We Honor Veterans

At Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel, we understand the unique needs of America’s veterans and their families. As a Level Four Founding Community Partner with We Honor Veterans, we are honored to serve our nation’s heroes and take this responsibility seriously. We have taken steps to ensure our staff is knowledgeable of all the benefits available to military veterans and their families.

In addition, we host community events annually in honor of our veterans and work closely with local veterans organizations. With respect, integrity and dignity, we will walk you through the steps of creating a veteran’s memorial service that truly honors the life and sacrifice of your loved one.

On-site crematory

Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel has a private on-site crematory, which means your loved one never leaves our care. Cremation is important in certain religions and cultures, and more and more people are choosing cremation over more traditional burial options, but most people aren’t familiar with all of their choices when it comes to cremation. You may choose a direct cremation without a funeral or memorial service of any kind; a funeral with the body present, followed by cremation; or a cremation followed by a cemetery service or a celebration of life. If you wish, cremated remains can be interred at Parkview Cemetery.

Let us serve you

If you need immediate assistance planning a memorial service, wish to tour our funeral home or just want to meet with a member of our team to discuss planning ahead, please call Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel. We are here for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Parkview Cemetery

Parkview Cemetery—68 acres adjacent to Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel—is a quiet, picturesque property with lush gardens, manicured lawns and the occasional deer. With stately trees providing shade and slightly rolling hills, the park-like cemetery allows for both flat and upright grave markers.

Burial options

Our mission is to provide a memorialization that honors your family's customs or religious tradition. To that end, the cemetery offers traditional in-ground burial, single and couch crypts, a cremation garden, build-to-suit estates, bench estates, an ossuary and more.

Mausoleum options include 2 community choices: Chapel of Peace and Parkview Memorial Chapel. Chapel of Peace includes glass-front cremation niches.

The Garden of Freedom hosts a veterans memorial. It features flags from all 5 U.S. military branches. Many Vietnam veterans are buried in the Vietnam Garden, situated right outside Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel funeral home.

Visit our cemetery

Parkview Cemetery is honored to be a final resting place for Peoria residents. We invite you to visit our cemetery at any time. Please contact Parkview Cemetery and we will be glad to show you around.

Community events

Together, Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel and Parkview Cemetery host several annual events. On Mother's Day, Parkview Cemetery distributes fresh flowers to families visiting the cemetery and invites them to place these flowers on the graves of their loved ones. Our annual Memorial Day service alternates between the funeral home and cemetery. It draws 50-100 guests each year. The program usually includes a speaker and a funeral honor presented by the American Legion Post 2. We provide American flags to all families who have veterans in our cemetery.

Our holiday memorial service is a beautiful gathering of families during a special time of year. We invite local clergy and musicians to fill our chapel with the sounds of the season and give families a gift in honor of their loved ones.

History

A group of Peoria businessmen led by C.T. Hutchison founded Parkview Cemetery in 1921. In 1938, Delbert and Helen Davison established Davison Funeral Home at 813 S. Western Ave. on the south side of Peoria. Following the unexpected death of Delbert in 1968, George Fulton purchased the business. The funeral home served the community in the same location until it burned down. In 1973, a new chapel was built at 1203 W. Garfield Ave. in Bartonville. At that time, the business name was changed to Davison-Fulton Funeral Chapels.

In 1980, to serve families on the north side of Peoria, Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel opened adjacent to Parkview Cemetery at 2021 N. University St. In 1989, Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel joined the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers.