Funeral Program and Card Maker

Make all four pieces in one place: the program, memorial cards, prayer cards and thank-you cards. Enter the details once. Choose a design, add a photo and drag and zoom it until the face sits where you want it inside the frame, then type the name and dates. They carry to every piece, so the program and all three cards match, and each one updates as you type. Download a fillable PDF or a Word file, which also opens in Google Docs, and keep editing the wording there after you download.

Five steps

What, design, photo, wording, download

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The photo

Getting the photo right

Any clear photo works, including one taken from a group: zoom in until the person you want fills the frame, then drag to place the face. The outline shows exactly what will print; everything outside it is cut away. A face about a third of the way down the frame usually looks most natural.

Choose the sharpest photo you have, not the most recent. A photo that looks fine on a phone can print soft at this size once it has been zoomed in a long way, so if the face looks blurred in the preview, try a different picture. Photos from an iPhone are sometimes saved in a format some browsers cannot open; if yours will not load, save it as a JPEG first.

One set, four pieces

What each piece is for

The program is handed to guests as they arrive: cover, order of service, life story and thanks. Bifold, trifold or one page.
Memorial cards are the keepsake: photo, name, dates and a short verse, four to a sheet, handed out at the service or tucked into a thank-you note.
Prayer cards are wallet-sized, eight to a sheet: the photo on the front and a prayer, psalm or poem on the back.
Thank-you cards are for afterward: a short message from the family, four to a sheet, with room to add a line by hand. They carry no photo.

Make the program first. When you switch to the cards, the design, the photo and the name and dates are already filled in.

After you download

Printing and editing the files

PDF: open it in Acrobat, Preview, Chrome or Edge to fix a typo; every line of wording can still be typed into, and on the card sheets one change updates every card.
Word: the wording is ordinary editable text. The photo is one picture with its frame, so to change the photo, come back here and make the file again.
Google Docs: upload the Word file to Google Drive and open it with Google Docs. The framed photo comes with it.

Cards print best on light cardstock. Proofread the name and both dates before printing more than one copy, and have someone else read them too.

Without a photo

Bifold Funeral Programs

Download the sixteen designs as they are.

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The cards

Funeral Card Templates

Memorial, prayer and thank-you cards as files.

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Step by step

How to Make a Funeral Program

Including printing and folding.

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Questions families ask

Can I zoom in on one person in a group photo?

Yes. Move the zoom slider up to eight times and drag the photo until that person’s face is inside the outline. Only what is inside the outline prints.

Why not just put my photo into the Word template?

You can, but the decorative frames are part of the placeholder picture, so Change Picture in Word swaps the oval or arch for a plain rectangle. The maker fits the photo inside the frame first and then builds the Word file.

Do I have to type everything again for the cards?

No. The design, the photo, the name and the dates carry from the program to the memorial, prayer and thank-you cards. Each card has only its own few lines to fill in, such as the prayer on the back.

What can the maker not make yet?

The eight-page booklet, which needs several photos, and church resolutions, which are written by the church rather than the family. Both are available as ready-made templates in this section.

Free funeral templates · Updated through October 2026 · by David Nelsen. Every name, date and place printed on these templates is invented sample wording; each file is opened in Microsoft Word and Google Docs before it is published.