Carlisle Funeral Home Obituaries

Tarboro, North Carolina

Find Carlisle Funeral Home Obituaries and Service Information

If you are looking for a recent obituary from Carlisle Funeral Home in Tarboro, this page gives you the useful information first: recent notices, the official obituary-search route, funeral-home contact details, service information, obituary alerts, and what to do when an older notice does not appear online.

Quick answer: Carlisle Funeral Home publishes its obituary collection online for Tarboro and families it serves across the surrounding North Carolina area. The official listing changes as new notices are added, so use the current-name snapshot below first, then open the official obituary page only when you need the full notice, guestbook, directions, or newly posted information.

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Recent Carlisle Funeral Home Obituaries

The following names were visible in Carlisle Funeral Home’s official obituary listings when this guide was checked on October 14, 2026. This is a current snapshot, not a permanent historical index.

Name	Date shown	Location or useful detail
David Clayton Burgess	October 9, 2026	Age 58, of Elm City. The individual notice said service details would be posted after they were finalized.
Mary Wiggs Speight	October 8, 2026	Age 72, Macclesfield. Her notice listed visitation, a funeral service, and burial for October 14.
Betty Joyce Hawley	October 7, 2026	Age 91, lifelong Tarboro resident.
Karen Rook Summerlin	September 22, 2026	Age 67. The obituary included visitation and chapel-service information.
Margaret Vera Tripp	September 20, 2026	Age 93, with Edgecombe County family connections noted in the obituary.
James Bryan Weathersbee	September 17, 2026	Tarboro native; born November 19, 1958.
Charles Washburn Coker Sr.	September 16, 2026	Age 76.
Sylvia Peters Williams	September 11, 2026	Age 85, of Pinetops, North Carolina.

Obituary dates and service arrangements can change or be expanded after the first notice is posted. For a funeral happening soon, confirm the final time and location from the individual obituary before traveling.

How to Search Carlisle Funeral Home Obituaries

You do not need to browse page after page if you already know the person’s name. Use this short process.

Open Carlisle Funeral Home’s official obituary page.
Go to the funeral home’s obituary section and look for the obituary search field or recent-notice list.
Search the last name first.
A surname is often more reliable than entering a long full name. If there are too many matches, add the first name.
Try name variations if nothing appears.
Search a maiden name, married name, nickname, middle name, initials, or alternate spelling.
Open the individual obituary.
Check the full name, birth and death dates, residence, relatives, visitation, funeral or memorial service, burial location, and memorial instructions.
Confirm service details before leaving home.
Look closely at the date, time, church or chapel name, cemetery, and whether the service is public, private, graveside, or a celebration of life.
If the notice is not online, contact Carlisle Funeral Home.
Give the person’s full name and approximate date of death. Staff may be able to tell you whether the funeral home handled the arrangements or whether a notice is still pending.

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Carlisle Funeral Home Contact and Location

Carlisle Funeral Home is a family-owned funeral home serving Tarboro and Edgecombe County. Its official website says the business has served the community since 1874 and provides funeral, burial, cremation, planning, personalized, and veteran-related services.

Address 701 Hospital Drive Tarboro, NC 27886

Phone 252-823-0211 Call for obituary or arrangement questions.

Email info@carlislefuneralhome.com Useful for non-urgent questions.

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What You Can Usually Find in a Carlisle Obituary

Life details Full name, age, birth information, residence, occupation, interests, church ties, or other biographical details may appear.

Family information Notices often identify close relatives, including a spouse, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren, and relatives who died earlier.

Visitation and service The notice may provide the date, starting time, location, officiant, and type of ceremony.

Burial information When applicable, an obituary may identify the cemetery or graveside-service location.

Memorial contributions Some families request donations to a church, charity, medical organization, or community group instead of flowers.

Condolences and updates Individual online notices may provide options for sharing condolences, flowers, directions, or updated arrangements.

If You Cannot Find the Obituary

A missing search result does not necessarily mean Carlisle Funeral Home did not serve the family. A notice may be new, unpublished, under another spelling, private, or too old for the current online index.

Problem	What to try	Best next step
No result for full name	Search surname only, nickname, maiden name, initials, or alternate spelling.	Retry the official obituary search.
Death was very recent	The family may still be finalizing the obituary or service schedule.	Check again later or call Carlisle Funeral Home.
Looking for an older obituary	Online funeral-home listings may not include every historical notice.	Check state archives, local library collections, newspapers, cemetery records, and death certificates.
You know the cemetery but not the obituary	Use cemetery records and burial information to verify the person.	Contact the cemetery office or use a reliable official burial source.
The deceased was a veteran	Search federal veteran burial records.	Use the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator.

Need an Older North Carolina Death Record?

For genealogy or legal research, an obituary and a death certificate serve different purposes. An obituary is a family or funeral notice. A death certificate is an official vital record and may help confirm the legal name, date and place of death, parents, spouse, residence, and other recorded details.

North Carolina Vital Records North Carolina’s Office of Vital Records maintains death records and works with county register-of-deeds offices and local agencies.

Open NC Vital Records Portal

State Archives of North Carolina For older research, the State Archives copy-request service includes death certificates for 1906–1981 as one of the record types researchers can request.

Open NC Archives Copy Request

Research tip: If you are trying to identify a burial place, compare the obituary with the death certificate, cemetery office record, funeral-home record, and grave information instead of relying on one source alone.

Veteran Obituaries and Burial Records

Carlisle Funeral Home provides veteran-service guidance, including information about military funeral honors. If the deceased served in the U.S. military, keep the person’s military discharge paperwork or DD214 available during funeral arrangements when possible.

For burial-location research, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Nationwide Gravesite Locator can search many veterans and eligible family members buried in VA national cemeteries, state veteran cemeteries, certain other military cemeteries, and some private cemeteries where VA provided a government marker.

Open the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
Enter the veteran’s last name and first name. Add birth or death information when needed to narrow results.
Review the cemetery result. Save the cemetery name and any section, site, or grave-location information shown.
Compare the result with the obituary. This helps confirm that you have the correct person.

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What to Do When a Death Has Just Occurred

Carlisle Funeral Home’s guidance separates the first steps based on where the death occurred.

Hospital or nursing facility Facility staff normally handle the legal pronouncement of death before funeral arrangements proceed.

At home without hospice Carlisle’s guidance says to contact local emergency officials so the death can be legally pronounced before arrangements continue.

At home under hospice care Contact the hospice provider first so a nurse can come to the home and complete the required pronouncement process.

After the pronouncement The family can contact the funeral home so transfer and arrangement steps can begin.

Information worth gathering before the arrangement meeting

Full legal name and address of the deceased
Date and place of birth
Date of death
Marital status and spouse information
Parents’ full names, including mother’s maiden name
Occupation and industry
Social Security information when requested by the funeral director
Birth certificate if available
Life-insurance information
Military discharge papers or DD214 for a veteran
Cemetery-property or prearrangement information, if any exists
A recent photograph if the family wants one used for the obituary or service

Official Immediate-Need Form Official When-Death-Occurs Guide

How to Receive New Carlisle Obituary Notices

Carlisle Funeral Home offers an obituary-notification signup. The official page says subscribers can receive an email when a new obituary is added and that the email address is not used for other purposes or shared.

Open the official obituary-notification page.
Enter the email address requested by the subscription form.
Complete the subscription.
Watch your inbox for newly posted obituary notices.

This is useful when you are following local Tarboro and Edgecombe County notices but do not want to manually check the obituary page every day.

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Before Paying Anyone Who Calls About a Funeral

Scam awareness: Carlisle Funeral Home previously published a community warning about callers targeting recently bereaved families and demanding additional credit-card payments after hours. If a payment request feels unusual, do not rely on the incoming caller’s identity. Contact the funeral home directly using its published office number.

This is especially important when service information and family names are publicly visible in obituaries, because scammers may use public details to make a call sound convincing.

Find a Grave After Reading the Obituary

An obituary can provide the cemetery name, but the exact grave location may require another step. Save any cemetery, burial, church, spouse, maiden-name, and veteran clues from the notice before continuing your search.

Write down the cemetery name exactly as shown.
Save the deceased’s full name and death date.
Contact the cemetery office and ask for section, lot, row, plot, or grave number if those details are available.
For veterans, check the VA locator when applicable.
Compare at least two sources before adding burial information to a family tree or permanent record.

For a broader grave-search workflow, use the FindAGraves cemetery and burial-record research guide.

Carlisle Funeral Home Obituaries: Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I find Carlisle Funeral Home obituaries?

Use Carlisle Funeral Home’s official obituary page. It contains recent notices and links to individual obituary pages with available service, burial, condolence, and memorial information.

Is Carlisle Funeral Home located in Tarboro, North Carolina?

Yes. Carlisle Funeral Home’s official location is 701 Hospital Drive, Tarboro, NC 27886.

What is the phone number for Carlisle Funeral Home?

The funeral home’s published telephone number is 252-823-0211.

Can I search an older Carlisle Funeral Home obituary?

Start with the official obituary search using the surname and name variations. If the notice is too old to appear online, contact the funeral home and then check historical newspapers, cemetery records, North Carolina archives, or death records when appropriate.

Why is a very recent death not showing on the obituary page yet?

The family may still be preparing the obituary or finalizing visitation, service, and burial arrangements. A short initial notice may also appear before the full obituary is completed.

Can I get email alerts for new Carlisle Funeral Home obituaries?

Yes. Carlisle Funeral Home has an official obituary-notification signup that can send an email when new notices are posted.

Does an obituary always include the cemetery?

No. Some notices include burial or graveside information, while others do not. Services may also be private or the burial decision may not be published online.

How can I verify a veteran’s burial location?

Use the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator when the burial falls within its coverage, then compare that result with the obituary or cemetery record.

What information should I have before calling the funeral home about an obituary?

Have the deceased person’s full name, approximate date of death, city or community, and any alternate or maiden name. These details make it easier to identify the correct record.

Does Carlisle Funeral Home provide cremation and veteran services?

Yes. Its official service information includes traditional funeral services, cremation, personalized services, planning, and veteran-related funeral assistance.

Official Sources Used for This Guide

Information checked October 14, 2026. Obituaries, service times, contact information, online forms, and funeral arrangements can change. For a service taking place soon, confirm the individual obituary before traveling.