Welcome to Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory

Whether a death is sudden or expected, the loss of a loved one is indescribable. When you are in a heightened emotional state, even the most basic decisions can seem staggering.

A funeral director will guide you through all of these steps, using your wants, needs and desires as a foundation to create a memorable funeral for your loved one. From here the funeral services can be personalized.  Did your loved one have a favorite sports team?  What was their favorite type of music?  What activity was your loved one known best for?  Sharing these memories with the grieving process and will allow you to pay tribute to the life of your loved one.

Please contact us at anytime if a death has occured.

Taking the time to arrange your funeral now leaves one less thing your loved ones will need to worry about once you’ve passed. We are here to help you every step of the way.

While people spend months planning events like weddings and trips, few think about the one event that is certain to happen: their funeral.  While most people do not want to think about their own mortality, the time to pre-plan your funeral is now.  The primary advantage of pre-arranging your funeral is to relieve the burden on your loved ones in an emotional time, and to ensure your funeral is carried out according to your wishes, eliminating the task of second-guessing what you would have wanted. Pre-planning and pre-paying your funeral is one of the most thoughtful gifts you can give to your family.

Products
We offer a wide variety of caskets from the following reputable dealers: Aurora, Batesville, Winston-Salem Casket Company, Thacker Caskets

We offer handmade wood and ceramic cremation urns from various local artisans; as well as brass, pewter, marbelon, and wood from Ambassador Associates, Wilbert, Aurora, Batesville, and October Company.

Services
We offer full funeral services; memorial services; celebrations of life; cremations – direct or with services; preneed bank and insurance trusts/contracts, graveside services; internment and disinterments and/or reinterments; death date engraving; VA markers; monuments and markers.

Service Areas
North Carolina: Boone, Blowing Rock, Foscoe, Todd, Deep Gap, Stony Fork, Meat Camp, Zionville, Vilas, Banner Elk, Crossnore, Elk Park, Fleetwood, Jefferson, West Jefferson,  Lenoir, Linville, Newland, North Wilkesboro, Wilkesboro, Valle Crucis, Sugar Grove, Pineola, Hickory

Tennessee: Mountain City, Johnson City,