Anders Rice Funeral Home Obituaries

Recent Anders Rice & Roper Obituary Listings

The following names were among the newest notices shown on the funeral home’s official obituary listing when this guide was checked on October 15, 2026. The live archive can change whenever a new obituary is added or an existing notice is updated.

This table is only a current snapshot. For a new death notice or a changed service time, always check the official obituary archive before traveling.

How to Search for a Specific Obituary

1. Open the official obituary page.
   Go to Anders Rice & Roper’s obituary archive .
2. Search the person’s last name first.
   A surname-only search can be more useful when you are unsure about a middle name, nickname or spelling.
3. Try alternate versions of the name.
   Search a maiden name, married surname, nickname, initials or common spelling variation.
4. Open the matching obituary.
   Compare dates, hometown, relatives and other identifying details before assuming you found the correct person.
5. Check for a service schedule.
   Look below the obituary text for visitation, funeral, memorial, graveside or burial information.
6. Save the cemetery name exactly as written.
   If your goal is to find the grave, record the full cemetery name, city and any address shown.

What You Can Learn from an Obituary

An Anders Rice obituary may provide much more than a death date. The exact amount of information depends on what the family and funeral home publish.

• Full name, middle name, nickname or maiden name
• Birth date and death date
• Age at death
• Asheville, Candler, Leicester, Weaverville or another local connection
• Parents and spouse
• Children, siblings, grandchildren and other survivors
• Relatives who died earlier
• Military service
• Employment or community history
• Church membership or faith community
• Visitation date and time
• Funeral or memorial service location
• Graveside service information
• Cemetery or burial location
• Memorial donation instructions

Some notices contain no burial information, while others provide a complete service schedule. A notice can also be updated later, so check again if arrangements were still pending when the obituary first appeared.

If You Cannot Find the Obituary

A missing result does not automatically mean the funeral home did not handle the arrangements. Name variations, older records and incomplete online indexing can make an obituary harder to find.

How to Find the Cemetery from the Obituary

If your real goal is to find the person’s grave, do not stop after reading the biographical text. Scroll through the full obituary page and check the service information carefully.

1. Look for “Burial,” “Graveside Service” or cemetery information.
   These fields may appear separately from the funeral service.
2. Copy the cemetery’s exact name.
   Similar cemetery names can exist in different communities, so save the city and address too.
3. Record the burial date.
   This can help a cemetery office identify the correct interment when several people have similar names.
4. Ask the cemetery for plot-level information.
   Request the section, lot, row, plot, grave or site number if the obituary does not provide it.
5. Compare records before adding the burial to a family tree.
   Match the obituary against cemetery records, a death certificate or another reliable source.

When You Need a North Carolina Death Certificate

An obituary is useful for family history and service information, but it is not the same as a certified death certificate. For an official North Carolina death record, use North Carolina Vital Records or the county Register of Deeds where the death was registered.

North Carolina Vital Records currently lists statewide death certificates from 1930 to the present.

Statewide record route

1. Open the official NC Vital Records ordering page.
   Visit vitalrecords.nc.gov/order.htm .
2. Choose the death certificate option.
   Have the deceased person’s legal name and approximate death date ready.
3. Check eligibility and identification requirements.
   Certified-copy access can depend on the requester’s relationship or legal authority.
4. Follow the current ordering instructions.
   Use the current official page for applicable methods, identification requirements and processing details.

Buncombe County death certificate route

For deaths registered in Buncombe County, the county Register of Deeds provides an additional official route. Its current information states that certified death records cost $10 per copy, while non-certified records cost $0.25.

Official county death-certificate information: Buncombe County Register of Deeds .

Anders Rice Funeral Home Contact Information

What to say when calling about an older obituary

If available, also provide a spouse’s name, parent’s name, approximate age, Asheville-area community and death year. These details are especially useful when the person has a common name.

Why Older Records May Say Anders-Rice Instead of Anders Rice & Roper

The funeral home’s official history says the business began on July 1, 1937 on Haywood Road in West Asheville. It moved to its current Patton Avenue location on September 4, 1967.

Ownership transferred to the Roper family on September 1, 2022. This is why older records and search results commonly use the name Anders-Rice Funeral Home, while current pages use Anders Rice & Roper Funeral Home & Cremation Center.

When researching older obituaries, search both names instead of assuming they refer to different funeral homes.

Search Strategy for Older Anders-Rice Obituaries

The official obituary archive includes older records, but you can improve your chances of finding a difficult notice by combining several clues.

• Person’s full name + Anders-Rice Funeral Home
• Surname + Asheville + approximate death year
• Maiden name + Anders-Rice
• Spouse’s name + obituary + Asheville
• Person’s name + cemetery name
• Person’s name + Buncombe County

If an online search still fails, contact the funeral home with the strongest identifying details you have. For genealogy research, a death certificate, cemetery interment record, church record or local archive may provide information that was never included in an online obituary.

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