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Funeral, Cremation & Cemetery

Catawba Memorial Park, Funerals & Cremations

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3060 Us Hwy 70 Se
Hickory, NC 28602

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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
Facility is available to host your personal events
Large capacity chapel
Veterans cemetery section
Waterside views
Cemetery spaces available
Monument and inscription services
Piano/Organ on site
Family estates
Family Estates are a distinguished tribute to a family legacy. They can be customized with stained glass, benches and landscaping
Flat markers
Grave markers that sit flush to the ground in the material of preference
Upright headstones
Mausoleums
Private or Community spaces for urns as well as caskets, that can be Indoor or outdoor
Onsite cemetery

Service

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
Arrangements by phone and email
complete funeral planning without needing a funeral home visit
Tribute video production
Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
Live music available
Popular music selections
Meeting space
space available for corporate and organization meetings
Marker unveiling
Ceremony where the tombstone is placed at your loved one’s gravesite
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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About

Spacious funeral home

Chapel at Catawba Memorial Park 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.

Our funeral home also includes 2 arrangement rooms, each with plenty of space for family members to meet. One of the arrangement rooms displays numerous options for cremation and personalization of funeral services.

Personalized funerals in Hickory

Front exterior building at Catawba Memorial Park As more and more Catawba County families choose to personalize funeral services, we at Catawba Funeral Home have made it our priority to help create unique and memorable events for their loved ones. From keepsakes and photos to music and festive gatherings, explore endless possibilities for celebrating your loved one’s life.

We serve a community of diverse cultures and religious beliefs. Our experienced associates are happy to accommodate all types of funeral requests, traditions and customs from all faiths and backgrounds.

Catawba Memorial Park cemetery

Special landscaping feature at Catawba Memorial Park Catawba Memorial Park resides on 100 acres of picturesque land. The cemetery offers a variety of burial, cremation memorialization and entombment options, including private estate mausoleums, community mausoleums, traditional ground burial, lawn crypts and cremation niches.

Our memorial park has 2 mausoleums: the Chapel of Memories Mausoleum and the Garden Mausoleum. If you or your loved one is a veteran, you can elect burial in the VA Garden of the Crosses, a ground burial area adorned with a military flag display.

Professional guidance you can trust

Mausoleum at Catawba Memorial Park 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.

History

Catawba Memorial Park was established in 1948 by C.G. Fox as the first perpetual care cemetery in Catawba County, North Carolina. In 1978, William E. Rowe purchased the cemetery from Mr. Fox’s 3 daughters, Margie Furlong, Rachel Adams and Mildred Greer.

1978–1982

Mausoleum at Catawba Memorial Park 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.

Funeral home addition

A few years later in 1987, Catawba Funeral Home opened on the cemetery grounds, adding vital convenience and simplicity when planning final arrangements.

Your dedicated provider

Catawba Memorial Park, Funerals & Cremations joined the Dignity Memorial® network in 2014. When you choose our funeral home and cemetery, you'll receive the compassionate care you expect from locally operated establishments and the benefits and value you deserve from the largest network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers in North America.