Pugh Funeral Home Obituaries

Which Pugh Funeral Home Does This Guide Cover?

This page covers the Pugh Funeral Home group serving central North Carolina. The funeral home’s official website identifies five Piedmont North Carolina locations: Asheboro, Randleman, Troy, Siler City, and Star.

The obituary system is slightly different depending on the location. Asheboro, Randleman and Troy have obituary pages on Pugh Funeral Home’s main website. The official Pugh site routes Siler City notices to Smith & Buckner Funeral Home and Star-area notices to Phillips Funeral Home.

How to Search Pugh Funeral Home Obituaries

1. Open the official all-obituaries page. Go to Pugh Funeral Home’s obituary search. This is the best starting point when you do not know which branch handled the arrangements.
2. Enter the person’s name. Start with the last name. If the result list is too large, add the first name. For a married woman, also try a maiden name or former surname if known.
3. Try a nickname or spelling variation. Search examples such as Bill/William, Bob/Robert, Kathy/Katherine, Jim/James, or a middle name. Obituaries may use the name the person was commonly known by rather than the exact name on a legal record.
4. Use the obituary-text search when the name is uncertain. The official search includes an Obituary Text option. This can help when you know a spouse’s name, church, city, employer, cemetery, relative, school or another detail mentioned inside the obituary.
5. Add a date range. Use the “Date of Death From” and “To” fields if you know approximately when the person died. If the exact year is uncertain, begin with a wider range and narrow it later.
6. Use the location filter. When available, select the relevant funeral-home location. This is useful for common surnames or when several people have similar names.
7. Use the veterans filter when appropriate. Pugh’s obituary search includes a Veterans Only option. Use it when the person served in the military and a normal name search produces too many results.
8. Open the individual obituary and read the service section. A full notice may include the person’s dates, relatives, visitation, funeral or memorial service, burial cemetery, church, memorial contribution information and other family-provided details.

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If You Cannot Find the Obituary

A missing search result does not always mean an obituary does not exist. Use this order before giving up:

Older Pugh Funeral Home Obituaries

The official obituary system includes older notices, but historical coverage can vary. Older records may be harder to find because of spelling differences, incomplete digitization, a branch change, or because the funeral home did not originally handle the arrangements.

For an older obituary, collect as many of these details as possible before contacting the funeral home:

• Full name and any nickname
• Maiden or previous married name
• Approximate date or year of death
• City or county where the person lived
• Possible funeral-home branch
• Spouse or close relative’s name
• Church or cemetery, if known

Then search the official obituary pages again using only two or three facts at a time. If the record still does not appear, contact the most likely location and ask whether an older obituary or service record is available.

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What Information Can Be Inside a Pugh Obituary?

Each notice is different because the information comes from the family and funeral arrangements, but a full obituary may contain:

• Full name, nickname and age
• Birth and death dates
• City of residence or place of death
• Parents, spouse, children and other relatives
• Education, military service, career and community involvement
• Church membership, hobbies and personal interests
• Visitation, funeral, memorial or graveside service details
• Cemetery or burial information when provided
• Memorial-donation instructions

If your main goal is to locate a burial, pay particular attention to the service schedule, burial section, cemetery name and city. Those details can provide the next clue even when the obituary does not list a grave plot.

How to Verify Funeral or Burial Details Before You Travel

Do not rely on an old screenshot, social post or third-party obituary summary for a service time. Plans can change.

1. Open the individual obituary on the official funeral-home website. Read the complete service schedule, not only the search-result preview.
2. Check the date, time and venue separately. A visitation, funeral service and burial can occur at different places.
3. Confirm the correct cemetery. Cemeteries can have similar names. Save the city or county along with the cemetery name.
4. Call before a long trip if anything is unclear. Use the branch phone number above and ask whether the service information shown online is still current.

Get New Pugh Funeral Home Obituary Alerts

If the obituary has not been posted yet, Pugh Funeral Home offers obituary notifications by email. The funeral home states that subscribers receive an email when a new obituary is added and can unsubscribe later.

Open the official obituary notification page.

Using an Obituary to Continue a Grave Search

An obituary is often a starting point rather than the final burial record. Once you find the right notice, save the person’s full name, death date, cemetery, church, service location and relatives. These details can help separate two people with similar names.

For a broader burial-record workflow, use the FindAGraves grave and cemetery research guide. It explains how to combine funeral-home information with cemetery offices, death records, veteran burial sources and other official records.

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