Useful Contact Information
Mike Wade, Wade Family Funeral Home:
- 817-274-9233
Social Security Administration:
- 1-800-772-1213
Texas Department of Insurance:
- 1-800-252-3439
- or
- 512-463-6501
Veteran's Administration:
- 1400 North Valley Mills Drive
- Waco TX 76799
- Phone: 1-800-827-1000
- Hours: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm (except for Federal holidays)
For assistance in burial at a National Cemetery call us at:
- 817-274-9233
Donation of human bodies to medical facilities can be made either directly to the facility, through a funeral establishment or by contacting:
- Anatomical Board, State of Texas
- UT Medical Branch H43
- Galveston, Texas 77550
- Phone: 409-772-1293
For more information regarding prepaid funerals, please contact:
- Texas Department of Banking
- Special Audit Division
- 2601 North Lamar Boulevard
- Austin, Texas 78705-4294
- Phone: 512-475-1290
- Fax: 512-475-1288
- www.banking.state.tx.us
or
- Texas Department of Insurance
- Consumer Help Line
- P.O. box 149091
- Austin, Texas 78714-9091
- 512-463-6515
- or
- 1-800-252-3439
Funeral Service Consumer Arbitration Program:
- Funeral Service Consumer Arbitration Program
- 2550 East Devon
- Des Plaines, IL 60018
- 1-800-662-7666
The Federal Trade Commission:
- Federal Trade Commission
- Dallas Regional Office
- 100 N. Central Expressway
- Dallas, TX 75201
- 214-767-5501
Texas Attorney General:
- Consumer Protection Division
- Attorney General of Texas
- P.O. Box 12548
- Austin, TX 78711
- 512-463-2070
For general information regarding funerals and funeral home regulations, please contact:
- Texas Funeral Service Commission
- 510 South Congress, Suite 206
- Austin, Texas 78704-1716
- 512-936-2474
- Toll Free: 1-888-667-4881
- Fax: 512-479-5064
- TDD: 1-800-RELAY TX
