Weller Funeral Home

Specialties Serving the Jewish community of greater New Haven with dignity since 1881. History Established in 1881. In 1881 Danny Weller began serving the Jews in New Haven as the first Jewish Funeral Director in the State of Connecticut and perhaps one of the first in the country. On the occasion of Danny's death in 1923, his son Harry Weller assumed the mantle of responsibility from a converted residence at 425 George Street. While the facility was remodeled and enlarged several times, it was not until 1970, well after Harry's daughter Sylvia and her son Danny Klein had joined Harry at the mortuary in the 1960's that the original building was razed and a new facility was erected on the sam