Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services
5.0(190)
1844 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
CremationTraditional Burial+5
1221 1st Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Services
The Westside Chapel operates within a 90+ acre memorial park featuring gardens, fountains, statuary, and mature tree canopy. The Chapel of Memories Mausoleum complex—patterned after old-world English churches—includes multiple corridors with Venetian glass mosaics and hand-crafted details. The 1999-built Family Center provides dedicated space for post-service gatherings separate from the funeral home itself.
Services follow a signature plan structure created in 2008 to standardize options and pricing across the Cedar Memorial system.
Cedar Memorial Westside Chapel traces its lineage to 1978, when Cedar Memorial acquired John B. Turner and Sons funeral homes. The Westside Chapel continues operating at 1221 1st Ave SW as a full-service funeral home integrated with one of Iowa's most established memorial parks. Families working with this location gain access to the broader Cedar Memorial campus, which has operated continuously since Carl K. Linge founded the cemetery in 1929.
The Westside Chapel functions within a vertically integrated system rare in modern funeral service. The property encompasses funeral home facilities, Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, the Chapel of Memories Mausoleum, and the Cedar Cremation Center—all maintained under common ownership. This structure eliminates third-party transfers for burial, entombment, or cremation services.
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