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McLaurin Funeral Home and Pinecrest Memorial Park have served generations of people with a tradition of compassionate care. Working together, the funeral home and cemetery located in Clayton, North Carolina, allow you to handle all of your funeral, cremation and cemetery needs with convenience and professionalism.

The funeral home and cemetery teams believe in treating all people with dignity and respect. McLaurin Funeral Home and Pinecrest Memorial Park serve all ethnicities and faiths. They also have experience working with veterans organizations on military funerals.

An elegant funeral home

Front exterior at Pinecrest Memorial ParkMcLaurin Funeral Home is a 13,000-square-foot facility built in 1974. With elegant chandelier lighting and wood trim, the stately chapel seats up to 225 guests. For more intimate services, there are 2 visitation rooms. Our mission at McLaurin Funeral Home is to help families create personalized funerals and memorials. This approach keeps us open to traditional religious rites as well as contemporary gatherings that deeply reflect a person's life.

That means that whether you want a basic cremation with cremated remains scattered in a personally meaningful place, a funeral in our chapel with cemetery burial nearby, or a modern celebration of life with live music, favorite foods and a send-off that expresses the passions of yourself or your loved one, we are happy to deliver.

Cremations in Clayton

McLaurin Funeral Home was the first funeral home in Johnston County with an on-site crematory. When you choose one of our many cremation options, your loved one never leaves our care. If you are interested in cremation, the funeral home team can explain the process. From a direct cremation without a service or a witness to a full funeral service before or after the cremation and more, we help you understand this increasingly common choice.

If desired, cremated remains may be placed at Pinecrest Memorial Park.

Pinecrest Memorial Park 

Cemetery grounds at Pinecrest Memorial ParkAt Pinecrest Memorial Park, we believe that every life is unique and that every memorial should be too. Our highly experienced and skilled grounds staff attends to every detail to ensure a meticulously maintained park. The park is a peaceful and serene space, offering many interment options, including traditional in-ground burial, lawn crypt entombment, mausoleum entombment and cremation memorialization.

Burial options

Mausoleum at Pinecrest Memorial ParkConstructed of granite, concrete and reinforced steel, the Pinecrest Memorial Gardens Mausoleum has a charming foyer that was sculpted out of marble and is designed to hold floral arrangements. The cemetery grounds feature many lovely gardens as well, including the Garden of the Good Shepherd, the Garden of the Whispering Waters and the Garden of Love. We also offer private family and community mausoleums, plus several state-of-the-art cremation options.

Visit us anytime

McLaurin Funeral Home and Pinecrest Memorial Park are located on Highway 70, just 4 miles from I-40 and 20 miles from I-95. The facility has ample on-site parking. We also house the office for Knollwood Memorial Park, located at 4362 US 70 Business Hwy W in Clayton, and we are proud to serve Knollwood families as well. If you have any questions or would like a tour of our funeral home or memorial parks, just let us know and we'll be happy to oblige. 

History

Pinecrest and McLaurin

Unique feature at Pinecrest Memorial ParkPinecrest Memorial Gardens was established in 1965. Nearly a decade later in 1974, McLaurin Funeral Home was built on the property. The following year in 1975, Jimmy D. McLaurin purchased Pinecrest Memorial Gardens and eventually changed the name to Pinecrest Memorial Park. After the purchase of the cemetery, McLaurin Funeral Home at Pinecrest Memorial Park became sister locations, giving families the convenience of taking care of all funeral and burial arrangements.

In 1982, construction began on the first addition to the beautiful Chapel Mausoleum. Since then, 3 total additions have been made to the mausoleum, allowing for over 650 crypts and niches, and thus, making it the largest mausoleum in Johnston County. In 2011, Pinecrest Memorial Park saw demand for more mausoleum space and began construction on the Faith Mausoleum.

Knollwood Memorial Park

On December 31, 1988, McLaurin purchased Knollwood Memorial Park, located about 9 miles southeast of the funeral home on Highway 70. The cemetery was originally established in the early 1940s for World War II veterans. He quickly created several gardens and worked with landscaping artists to develop a beautiful cemetery with a garden-like feel. Today, the office of Knollwood Memorial Park is housed in the McLaurin Funeral Home facilities. 

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Today, McLaurin Funeral Home and Pinecrest Memorial Park are members of the Dignity Memorial® network, giving you the warm, familiar attention you expect from locally operated establishments and the value you deserve.

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Since 2005, many of our customers have taken the time to tell us how we did each year via our Voice of the Customer program. Our star ratings and comments from families come directly from these surveys.

"My husband's death was sudden, we didn't have any type of arrangements made for an event like this. I chose McLaurin because I had attended a funeral for a friend's husband and it was so organized and professional yet with much care and attentiveness. My sons were impressed and thankful that we weren't pressed for what we didn't need. I plan to make arrangements for myself there so my sons won't have to do so while grieving."

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"I would use their services again even though I live in another county. What an awesome place and people."

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March 2021

"We had called around to other funeral homes and was not impressed untill we reached McLaurins not only are they are open 24hrs you can call them any time night or day return you calls in matter of minutes very willing to help any way they can do not push you in to any thing could not ask for a better place for you arrangements thank you for all you did for us for ever grateful"

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"The director I worked with I would recommend for anyone. We held no service or anything at the funeral home. So I can not speak on that part, but for a cremation the cost was reasonable and the staff and director we're amazing to myself and family. We did view my dad prior to cremation and he looked peaceful. Fully explained all costs and any questions we're more than answered and anytime I ever had a question I would receive a call back or email very timely."

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