Funeral, Cremation & Cemetery

McLaurin Funeral Home & Pinecrest Memorial Park

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12830 US 70 Business Hwy W
Clayton, NC 27520

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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.

Amenities

Location

Flexible event space
Facility is available to host your personal events
Large capacity chapel
Veterans cemetery section
Recently renovated
Flexible chapel space
Our chapel can be used for hosting your religious events
Cemetery spaces available
Custom headstones and markers
Piano/organ on site
Flat markers
Grave markers that sit flush to the ground in the material of preference
Mausoleums
Private or Community spaces for urns as well as caskets, that can be Indoor or outdoor
Coffee lounge
Pet-friendly
Onsite cemetery

Cremation

Option for mail delivery of ashes
Sent through postal mail service, signature required.
Scattering garden for ashes
Cremation remembrance jewelry
Cremation viewing suite
Cremation cemetery options
Cremation niches
Option for home delivery of ashes
Scattering assistance
Cremation gardens

Service

Arrangements by phone or email
Complete funeral planning, including electronic signature, without needing a funeral home visit
Catered events
Large reception area
Event planning
Services available to support planning events
Outdoor celebrations
Options to have your personalized celebrations on outdoors on our property
Tribute video production
Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
Audio and video equipment
Live music available
In-home visitations
Services available to coordinate visitation or viewing at a private residence
Police escort available
Cemetery flower delivery

Religious & Cultural

Catholic cemetery section
Muslim cemetery section
Incense burning
Ritual washing

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Free Funeral Planning Resources

Funeral planning can seem overwhelming. These guides can help you every step of the way—from choosing between traditional burial planning and cremation, designing a religious ceremony or a celebration of life, and deciding on cemetery property or filing for veteran's benefits.

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About

An elegant funeral home

Front exterior at Pinecrest Memorial Park McLaurin 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 Park At 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 Park Constructed 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 Park Pinecrest 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.

Trusted services

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.