OUR HISTORY

About Us

For over half of the last century until the present our funeral home located in Cedar Springs has been serving families of Cedar Springs, Sparta, Kent City, Pierson, Howard City, Rockford, Greenville, Newaygo, and everywhere in between.

We have offered our professional and staff services under various ownerships. Early on, the funeral home was known as Walsh funeral home. Thomas E. Bliss purchased the funeral home in the early 1960’s, and operated as Walsh-Bliss Funeral Home and then Bliss Funeral Home until 1979. Tom Bliss passed away in 2010. David A. Earl purchased the business and operated as Bliss-Earl Funeral Home until January of 1997. The funeral home was then owned and operated as Bliss-Witters Cedar Chapel by Thomas E. Witters. On January 1, 2006 the funeral home was purchased by Kevin E. Pike and renamed Bliss-Witters & Pike Funeral Home. In September of 2022, the funeral home was renamed K.E. Pike Funeral Home.

From the early years until November of 1998 the funeral home was located at the corner of Main and Muskegon streets in a building that formerly was Black’s General Store and dated back to the late 1800’s. The new barrier-free funeral chapel is now located one half mile south of that intersection, on a multi-acre site at 13603 Northland Drive. We share a quiet setting next to the city administered Elmwood Cemetery. The facility is spacious and tastefully decorated. The chapel will accommodate groups of up to two hundred comfortably. All visitation rooms, restrooms, lounge and chapel are on one level with a sheltered access entry.

Handicapped parking is conveniently placed on the ninety space well-lighted parking lot.