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Catawba Memorial Park, Funerals & Cremations in Hickory, North Carolina, provides funeral and memorial options that place your family's needs and desires above all else. Working together, the funeral home and memorial park have served the Catawba County community in a tradition dating back to 1948.
Amenities
Location
- Flexible event space
- Large capacity chapel
- Veterans cemetery section
- Waterside views
- Cemetery spaces available
- Custom headstones and markers
- Piano/Organ on site
- Family estates
- Flat markers
- Upright headstones
- Mausoleums
- Onsite cemetery
Service
- Catered events
- Large reception area
- Event planning
- Outdoor celebrations
- Arrangements by phone and email
- Tribute video production
- Live music available
- Popular music selections
- Meeting space
- Marker unveiling
- Police escort available
- Cemetery flower delivery
Religious & Cultural
- Multicultural funerals
- Latin music selections
- Jewish cemetery section
- Incense burning
Cremation
- Cremation remembrance jewelry
- Cremation viewing suite
- Cremation cemetery options
- Cremation niches
- Option for home delivery of ashes
- Option for mail delivery of ashes
- Cremation gardens
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Our Difference
We want you to feel confident planning a funeral for yourself or a loved one. Here are some of the unique benefits we offer to help relieve your family of emotional and financial burdens.
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National plan transferability
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Personal Planning Guide
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Free online obituary
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Price protection
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Experts in honoring veterans
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Away from home protection
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Celebration of life
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Compassion help line
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100% Dignity Service Guarantee
Recent Obituaries
When new obituaries are added
Catawba Funeral Home was established in 1987 with your comfort in mind. Our funeral home features softly lit, elegant décor and boasts a large visitation room that leads to a peaceful outdoor courtyard. The courtyard is beautifully landscaped with colorful flower gardens, benches and birdbaths, and enclosed by a brick façade. The chapel comfortably seats 186 guests, and the visitation room and hallway of the funeral home contain television screens for family and friends to view video memorials during visitation services.
As more and more Catawba County families choose to 
Catawba Memorial Park resides on 100 acres of picturesque land. The cemetery 
We invite you to visit Catawba Funeral Home and Catawba Memorial Park at 3060 U.S. Highway 70 SE to meet our knowledgeable associates, tour the funeral home and walk the cemetery grounds. Please contact us, day or night, if you have an immediate need for our services in Hickory or would like more information.
In 1978, the Garden Mausoleum opened as the first mausoleum in Catawba County to offer above-ground entombment and niches. In 1979, Brent Heffron purchased Catawba Memorial Park from Mr. Rowe. In 1982, the Garden Mausoleum was completed, making it the largest mausoleum in Western North Carolina at the time.
"Wonderful, caring staff who loved my mother and honored her every wish."
Verified Cremation Customer
June 2019
"My dad, my brother, my husband & now my mom are buried here and i will be also - i m pleased to have this facility nearby."
Verified Cremation Customer
May 2019
"The staff was caring & compassionate"
Verified Burial Customer
April 2019
"Catawba memorial funeral home was very nice and all the staff was very kind and helpful."
Verified Burial & Memorial Service Customer
March 2019
"This was my third time using catawba funeral home i have been treated super well by all would not dream of going any where else."
Verified Cremation Customer
March 2019
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