Bibber Memorial Chapel Funeral Home

About Bibber Memorial Chapel Funeral Home

Bibber Memorial Chapel at Kennebunkport and Kennebunk was founded by my father, Earl V. Bibber. Earl completed his apprenticeship program at the Hay and Peabody Funeral Home in Portland, ME. He was a graduate at Portland's Deering High School and completed his formal education at the MacAllister School of Embalming in New York City in March 1938. That same year, he was married to Phyllis Maxham.

Being young, energetic and eager to get started in building a business, Earl and Phyllis looked at several locations on the coast of Maine, among them, Camden and Kennebunkport. The decision was reached to settle in Kennebunkport as this was a bit nearer to Boston, Portland, and Nashua, NH where they both had family ties. Kennebunkport was a small community, 90 miles north of Boston and halfway between Portsmouth, NH and Portland, ME.