Emerson Funeral Home Obituaries

Latest Emerson Funeral Home Obituaries

The following notices were listed by Emerson Funeral Home when this guide was checked on October 14, 2026. Funeral schedules can change, so use the official obituary link in the final column before traveling to a visitation, funeral, memorial, or graveside service.

How to Find an Emerson Funeral Home Obituary

1. Open the official obituary list.
   Go directly to Emerson Funeral Home’s obituary page. The newest notices normally appear first.
2. Match the person’s full name and location.
   Check middle names, nicknames, maiden names, city of residence, and death date. This helps when two people have similar names.
3. Open the individual obituary.
   Select the person’s notice rather than relying on the short preview. The full page may contain birth and death dates, surviving family, visitation, funeral time, burial cemetery, memorial requests, and guestbook options.
4. Look specifically for “Service Schedule.”
   Public services may be shown as visitation, funeral service, memorial service, graveside service, or burial. Times on Emerson’s current notices are generally displayed in Central Time.
5. Check whether the service is private.
   Some obituary pages state that all services are private or that no service will be held. Do not assume there is a public visitation if none is listed.
6. Confirm again before traveling.
   Reopen the official obituary on the day of the service or call Emerson Funeral Home at 870-935-4345 if you need confirmation.

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If You Cannot Find the Person

Older Emerson Funeral Home notices remain available through the funeral home’s obituary archive. The official index contains notices from earlier months and years rather than only the current week’s deaths.

What Information Can an Emerson Obituary Include?

The level of detail differs from family to family, but an Emerson Funeral Home obituary may include:

• full name, nickname, maiden name, and age;
• birth date, death date, birthplace, and place of residence;
• parents, spouse, children, grandchildren, siblings, and other relatives;
• education, employment, military service, church membership, hobbies, and community involvement;
• visitation, funeral, memorial, graveside, or burial information;
• cemetery name and sometimes its address;
• officiating clergy and pallbearers;
• memorial donation requests;
• guestbook, flower, tree, or memorial options;
• livestream information when a family makes it available.

If you are doing family-history or grave research, save the cemetery name, city, death date, spouse or parent names, and service date before leaving the obituary page. Those details are often the most useful clues for confirming a burial later.

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Services Available Through Emerson Funeral Home

Emerson Funeral Home states that it provides traditional funeral, burial, cremation, memorial, personalization, and veteran-related services. Its traditional arrangements may include visitation, a funeral service, and a graveside or committal service.

Families choosing cremation may use a traditional funeral followed by cremation, a memorial service, a graveside service, permanent urn placement, burial of an urn, scattering, or keeping an urn at home, depending on their wishes and applicable rules.

The funeral home also states that it can assist families of eligible veterans with forms and information related to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs burial benefits and memorial items.

About Emerson Funeral Home in Jonesboro

Emerson Funeral Home traces its history to 1932, when W. T. Emerson and Homer Burns established Emerson & Burns Funeral Home in Jonesboro. The business later became Emerson & Son Funeral Home and moved to its current E. Nettleton location in 1951. In 1954, Billy Joe Emerson took over leadership and the business became known as Emerson Funeral Home.

Today the funeral home describes itself as family owned and operated and serves Jonesboro, Craighead County, Northeast Arkansas, and surrounding communities.

Using an Obituary to Find a Burial Place

An obituary can give you enough information to continue a grave search even when it does not list a plot number. Start with the cemetery name and burial date. Then confirm the exact location with the cemetery office.

1. Copy the cemetery name exactly as written. Save the deceased person’s full name and death date too.
2. Check for a graveside or burial section in the obituary. The service location may identify the cemetery even when the biography does not.
3. Contact the cemetery. Ask for section, lot, plot, row, grave number, and interment date if available.
4. Use family names as clues. A spouse, parent, or child may be buried in the same plot or cemetery.
5. Verify before adding the burial to a family tree. Compare the obituary with cemetery records, a death certificate, funeral-home information, or another primary source.

For a broader burial-record workflow, you can also use the FindAGraves grave and cemetery research guide, which explains how to combine obituaries, cemetery offices, death records, veteran grave locators, archives, and map clues.

Common Questions About Emerson Funeral Home Obituaries

Accuracy note: Recent-obituary and service information above was checked against Emerson Funeral Home’s official website on October 14, 2026. Obituaries and arrangements can be added or changed after publication, so the linked official notice should be used for final same-day confirmation.