Austin & Barnes Funeral Home & Crematory

Austin & Barnes Funeral Home & Crematory Family owned and locally operated, we provide full service funerals, cremations (with or without service) We are committed to serve you 24 hours a day.

Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory is a full service funeral home since 1954. Centrally located in downtown Boone, we serve Watauga, Avery, Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes counties in North Carolina, and Johnson County Tennessee. We are a full service funeral home, and have the areas only on-site crematory. At Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory, we offer a wide range of services, including traditional full service funerals, memorial services, celebrations of life, cremation services, monuments, grave markers and mausoleums. In addition to these services we offer advance funeral planning. Our commitment is to serve our community with care and compassion. We recognize that no two persons are alike, and that a funeral should be as unique as each individual or family we serve. We will assist you in planning services tailored to your specific needs, be it at need, or pre-need.

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Boone, NC
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