Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries: Recent Notices & Search Guide

Find the Correct Burroughs Funeral Home Obituary

If you searched for Burroughs Funeral Home obituaries, first check the location connected with the person who died. Search results can lead to two separate funeral homes with similar names: Burroughs Funeral Home in Walnut Cove, North Carolina, and Burroughs Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

For a person connected with Walnut Cove, Stokes County or surrounding North Carolina communities, use the Walnut Cove obituary search. For Murrells Inlet, Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Calabash or the Grand Strand area, check the separate South Carolina obituary directory.

Quick answer: The official Walnut Cove obituary directory is Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries. It provides name and date-of-death search fields. The funeral home lists its location as 1382 Highway 65 W., Walnut Cove, NC 27052 and phone number as (336) 591-4341.

Walnut Cove, North Carolina

Burroughs Funeral Home
1382 Highway 65 W.
Walnut Cove, NC 27052

Phone: (336) 591-4341

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Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Burroughs Funeral Home & Cremation Services
3558 Old Kings Highway
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576

Phone: (843) 651-1440

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Important: These are different funeral homes with separate websites and obituary systems. Check the deceased person’s city or state before deciding that an obituary is missing.

Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries in Walnut Cove, NC

The Walnut Cove obituary directory is the primary source for notices handled by Burroughs Funeral Home in North Carolina. The official search page includes a Name field and a Date of Death field, making it useful for both recent notices and older records that remain in the online system.

A full memorial page can be more useful than the short result shown in Google or another search engine. Depending on what the family publishes, the page may include biographical information, relatives, visitation details, funeral or memorial arrangements, cemetery information, memorial requests and an online tribute area.

Open Official Walnut Cove Obituary Search

If the obituary list does not load: the official page uses JavaScript for parts of its obituary interface. Enable JavaScript, reload the page and try the search again before assuming the record is unavailable.

How to Search Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries

1 Confirm the correct state Look at the deceased person’s last residence, family location, hospital, church, cemetery or service announcement. Use the North Carolina directory only when Walnut Cove is the relevant funeral home.

2 Open the official obituary directory Use the funeral home’s obituary page rather than relying only on a search-engine preview. Search snippets can be incomplete or outdated.

3 Search the surname first If you are not certain how the deceased’s full name appears, enter only the last name. This helps when the notice uses a middle name, nickname, initial or different form of the first name.

4 Add the first name if needed If too many matches appear, add the first name. If nothing appears, try a nickname, maiden name, former married surname or alternate spelling.

5 Use the date filter carefully If you know the exact death date, use it to narrow the results. If the date is uncertain, start broadly so a one-day or one-year error does not hide the correct notice.

6 Open the individual obituary Read the complete memorial page. Service, cemetery and memorial-donation information may appear below the main biography.

7 Verify arrangements before traveling Recheck the official notice shortly before a visitation, funeral or graveside service. Call the funeral home if a date, time or location is unclear.

What Information Can You Get From an Obituary?

Detail	Why it matters	What to save
Full name	Helps confirm that you found the correct person.	Middle name, initials, maiden name, nickname and suffix.
Birth and death dates	Separates people with similar names.	Exact dates and age.
Residence or hometown	Connects the person with local records.	City, county and state.
Parents and spouse	Useful for identity confirmation and genealogy.	Full names and maiden names where given.
Visitation	Tells family and friends when and where they may gather.	Date, time and venue.
Funeral or memorial service	Provides the main service arrangements.	Venue, date, time and officiant if listed.
Cemetery or graveside service	May identify the final resting place.	Cemetery name, location and burial date.
Military service	May lead to an official veteran burial record.	Branch, rank and service information.
Memorial request	Shows whether the family prefers donations or another tribute.	Organization name and instructions.

If You Cannot Find the Obituary

A missing online result does not necessarily mean Burroughs Funeral Home did not handle the arrangements. Online obituary archives can be affected by spelling differences, name changes, private services, older undigitized records or a notice that was never published online.

Try these searches before calling

Search only the last name.
Try the legal first name and a familiar nickname.
Remove the middle name or middle initial.
Try a maiden name.
Try a previous married surname.
Check common spelling variations.
Search a spouse, parent, child or sibling.
Expand the expected death-date range.
Confirm you are searching the correct Burroughs Funeral Home.

Call the Walnut Cove funeral home

If the online search still fails, contact Burroughs Funeral Home at (336) 591-4341. Before calling, collect the full name, approximate death date, last residence and at least one close relative’s name.

Simple call script:
“I’m trying to confirm whether your funeral home handled arrangements for [full name], who died around [date]. I could not locate the obituary online. Is an obituary or service record available?”

Need a North Carolina Death Record Instead?

If an obituary cannot be located, an official death certificate can provide another route. North Carolina Vital Records lists death certificates from 1930 to the present. Birth, death and marriage certificates may also be requested from the Register of Deeds in the county where the event occurred.

Use the county of death, not automatically the county of residence. If a North Carolina resident died in another North Carolina county, the Register of Deeds in the county where the death occurred is the relevant local office.

Information to have before ordering

Name shown on the death certificate.
Date of death.
City or county of death.
Your relationship to the deceased when a certified copy requires it.

Current state-order fee information

North Carolina Vital Records currently lists a $24 state search fee that includes one certificate. For mail orders, the state instructions list $15 for each additional certificate ordered at the same time, plus the applicable processing fee. Because fees and processing rules can change, verify them on the official page immediately before ordering.

The state also notes that certificates can often be obtained from the county Register of Deeds on the same day, which may be useful when the state processing timeframe does not meet your needs.

NC Vital Records Ordering Guide NC Vital Records Forms

How to Find the Grave After You Find the Obituary

If your real goal is to locate the burial place, look through the obituary for terms such as burial, interment, graveside service, cemetery or church cemetery.

1 Copy the exact cemetery name Do not rely on memory. Different cemeteries and churches can have very similar names.

2 Save the city and county Location information helps distinguish cemeteries that share a name.

3 Record the burial date Cemetery staff can often locate an interment faster when you provide both the person’s name and an approximate burial date.

4 Ask the cemetery for plot-level information Request the section, lot, row, plot, grave or site number. These details frequently do not appear in the obituary.

5 Check veteran records when applicable If the deceased served in the U.S. military, the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator may provide a cemetery, section and site number for qualifying records.

For a broader research process, use the Find a Graves official-source research hub. It covers obituary clues, cemetery-office verification, death certificates, veteran grave records, spelling variations and burial-location research.

Open VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator

Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries in Murrells Inlet, SC

This is a different funeral home. Do not use the South Carolina obituary database when researching services handled by the Walnut Cove, North Carolina location.

Burroughs Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Murrells Inlet maintains a separate obituary directory. Its obituary page allows visitors to browse by month and filter by the first letter of a surname. Individual memorial pages can include obituary text, service details and tribute options.

The funeral home lists its address as 3558 Old Kings Highway, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576, with telephone number (843) 651-1440 and fax number (843) 651-1131.

1 Open the official “All Obituaries” page Use the Murrells Inlet directory when the deceased was associated with the Grand Strand or nearby communities.

2 Browse the current month Recent notices appear first. Use previous-month navigation for an earlier death.

3 Filter by surname Use the A-Z surname options when you know the family name.

4 Open the full obituary Check the complete page for service times, locations, memorial information and online condolences.

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Want new obituary alerts?

The Murrells Inlet funeral home also offers a complimentary obituary-notification mailing list. Its official page says subscribers receive an email notification within about an hour after an obituary or death notice is posted and can unsubscribe at any time.

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Which Burroughs Funeral Home Should You Search?

Location clue	Likely obituary source	Phone
Walnut Cove, Stokes County or surrounding North Carolina communities	Burroughs Funeral Home, Walnut Cove, NC	(336) 591-4341
Murrells Inlet, Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Calabash or nearby Grand Strand communities	Burroughs Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Murrells Inlet, SC	(843) 651-1440
Location unknown	Check the deceased’s residence, county, relatives, cemetery and service location first	Verify before searching

Before Attending a Funeral or Visitation

Confirm that the obituary belongs to the correct person.
Check whether the event is a visitation, funeral, memorial service, celebration of life or graveside service.
Verify the date and local time.
Check the exact venue; the service may be at a church, cemetery or another location instead of the funeral home.
Read the full notice for private-service restrictions.
Check whether the family prefers flowers, charitable donations or another memorial gesture.
Reopen the official obituary before traveling in case arrangements changed.
Call the funeral home if anything is unclear.

Using an Obituary for Family History Research

For genealogy, save more than the person’s birth and death dates. An obituary can connect several other records and relatives.

Clue in the obituary	What it can help you find
Maiden name	Parents, marriage records and earlier census records.
Spouse	Marriage records, shared cemetery plots and a spouse’s obituary.
Parents	Earlier generations and possible family burial plots.
Siblings	Related obituaries and additional family connections.
Church	Church cemetery, membership records or funeral programs.
Military service	VA burial records, service records and military headstone clues.
Cemetery	Interment registers, plot maps and nearby family burials.
Funeral home	Service information and possible archived arrangement records.

Burroughs Funeral Home Obituaries FAQs

1. Where can I find Burroughs Funeral Home obituaries?

For Walnut Cove, North Carolina, use the official obituary directory at burroughsfuneralhome.com. For Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, use the separate obituary directory at burroughsfh.com.

2. Are the Walnut Cove and Murrells Inlet Burroughs funeral homes the same?

No. They are separate funeral homes in different states and maintain different websites, phone numbers and obituary databases.

3. What is the phone number for Burroughs Funeral Home in Walnut Cove?

The official Walnut Cove website lists the phone number as (336) 591-4341.

4. What is the address of Burroughs Funeral Home in Walnut Cove?

The official address is 1382 Highway 65 W., Walnut Cove, NC 27052.

5. How do I search an older Burroughs Funeral Home obituary?

Start with the surname and avoid a narrow date filter. Then try nicknames, maiden names, alternate spellings and close relatives. If the record still cannot be located, call the funeral home with the approximate death date.

6. Why might an obituary not appear online?

The notice may use another name, may not have been published online, may fall outside the digital archive, may involve private arrangements or may belong to the other Burroughs funeral home.

7. Can an obituary tell me where someone is buried?

Sometimes. Look for a cemetery, graveside service, burial or interment section. If only the cemetery name is provided, contact the cemetery for the section, lot, row or grave number.

8. Can I order a North Carolina death certificate if I cannot find the obituary?

North Carolina Vital Records lists death certificates from 1930 to the present. Certificates may also be available through the Register of Deeds in the North Carolina county where the death occurred, subject to current ordering and eligibility rules.

9. How do I confirm a funeral or visitation time?

Open the person’s current official memorial page and check the service details. If you are traveling or the information is unclear, call the funeral home before leaving.

10. How do I find the exact grave after locating the obituary?

Save the cemetery name and burial date, then contact the cemetery and request the section, lot, row, plot or grave number. For a U.S. veteran, also check the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator when applicable.

Information checked October 17, 2026. Obituary listings, funeral arrangements, certificate fees and contact information can change. Use this guide to complete the research process, then use the individual official obituary or relevant government record as the final confirmation for time-sensitive details.