Vancil-Murphy Funeral Chapel
Springfield, Sangamon County, IL
A funeral home with its own crematory.
Posted July 28, 2025 Checked August 24, 2026
This list is dated July 28, 2025; prices have probably changed since. Ask the funeral home.
Read this home's price list437 South Grand Ave. West, Springfield, IL 62704
Direct cremation
$3,145
The middle price in Sangamon County is $4,530.
The home posts $3,045. With Sangamon County's permit, $3,145.
How this adds up
| "Direct Cremation" | $3,045 |
|---|---|
| Sangamon County permit fee, set by the county, verified August 19, 2026 | $100 |
| Sum | $3,145 |
This covers arrangements conference, planning, supervising, and coordinating service details with those involved in the cremation service, preparing, securing and filing necessary certificates, authorizations and consents and local transfer of remains to funeral home, alternative container and alternate care of remains. If you want to arrange a direct cremation, you can use an alternative container. The containers we provide are heavy cardboard. It does not cover mileage beyond the distance this list includes, holding the body beyond the days this list includes and certified copies of the death certificate, which are priced one at a time. The county permit fee belongs to the county where the death occurred, not the county where the funeral home is, so pick that county below or ask the funeral home. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.
The figure above adds the Sangamon County fee of $100 to this home's own price.
What this home's price covers
- arrangements conference
- planning, supervising, and coordinating service details with those involved in the cremation service
- preparing, securing and filing necessary certificates, authorizations and consents
- local transfer of remains to funeral home, alternative container and alternate care of remains. If you want to arrange a direct cremation, you can use an alternative container. The containers we provide are heavy cardboard.
What this home's price does not cover
- mileage beyond the distance this list includes
- holding the body beyond the days this list includes
- certified copies of the death certificate, which are priced one at a time
This price is the home's own package, the one it calls "Direct Cremation".
This list charges by the mile once the drive passes the distance its price covers. How far that is for a family is not something this figure can know, so no amount for it is in the total. The list says: "From within Springfield. Additional miles @ $3.50 per mile one way"
This list charges by the day once the body is held longer than its price covers. How many days that is for a family is not something this figure can know, so no amount for it is in the total. The list says: "In lieu of embalming, climate control care of remains for up to 7 days; $25 per day thereafter."
The median across Sangamon County is $4,530, from 3 posted price lists we have read.
These figures are ballparks for comparing homes, not quotes.
These figures are assembled from this home's own posted price list, and each one is rounded up to the next $5. Treat them as a way to compare homes, not as a quote. Only the funeral home can quote you.
What the county fee is
Sangamon County is the county this funeral home is in, so that is where the figures start. The permit fee belongs to the county where the death happened. If that was a different county, pick it and every figure on this page moves with it.
This fee is charged by the county where the death occurred, not the county where the funeral home is. A family using a Adams County funeral home for a death that happened in Alexander County pays the Alexander County fee. Pick the county of death to know the amount.
In this list: in IL, Cook County at $150 and 101 counties at $100; in IN, Allen County, Tippecanoe County and Vanderburgh County with no fee on file here; in MO, 12 counties charging no fee. A county not in this list charges something too; ask that county or the funeral home.
The counties of the states this one touches are in the list too, each one labeled with its state, because a death does not stop at a state line.
Certified copies of the death certificate
This home's price list does not show a price for a certified copy of the death certificate, and we have no verified government fee for this place, so please ask the funeral home or the registrar in the county where the death happened what one copy costs.
Tax is always approximate. Ask the funeral home for the exact amount.
Where to look next
What the other funeral homes in Sangamon County charge
The closest funeral homes whose posted prices we also hold:
- Butler Funeral Home & Cremation Tribute Center-SpringfieldSpringfield, IL
- Butler Funeral Home & Cremation Tribute Center-ChathamChatham, IL
- Central Cremation CenterForsyth, IL
The same question, answered for every Illinois home we have read:
If a term on this page needs explaining: