Cutler's Funeral Home

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Cutler's Funeral Home, now Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring, is located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Its former buildings were built in the mid-to-late 1800s.

Prior to the 1970s, many funeral homes, including Cutler's, operated ambulance services. Funeral home hearses were convenient emergency vehicles due to their ability to fit a person laying down on a stretcher. This unregulated practice gradually ended with the passage of the 1966 Highway Safety Act, which established stricter federal guidelines for emergency medical services. Individual states still maintain varying EMS rules and regulations.