At S.R. Avery Funeral Home, we do, indeed, try to offer you a home—a comforting and inviting place to gather in remembrance and celebration of lives lived well. Our experienced staff is committed to this vision and passionate about making your time with us as memorable and uplifting as possible. We bring together decades of experience caring for families of all cultural backgrounds and diverse walks of life. We pledge to treat you and your loved ones just like family, and we guarantee to offer services that meet all of your specifications while exceeding all of your expectations. 

Licensed staff members are available around the clock—24 hours a day, 7 days a week—to discuss your needs. Whether you are doing pre-planning or need to hold a service soon, we are ready to answer our phone and offer you warm, friendly, and empathetic service.Learn more about our funeral services.

In terms of specific services, there is much that S.R. Avery Funeral Home has to offer:

Our Pre-Planning Services make it easy for you to get your express wishes down in writing, ensuring that you have the kind of memorial service you truly desire and that your friends and loved ones can have total peace of mind that they are adhering to your wishes.

We host Burial Services that convey both the solemnity of the occasion, but also the joy that comes from celebrating the life of a dear loved one. We are happy to attend to all aspects of the service, and we invite our guests to linger as long as they wish, fully enjoying a special and intimate time with friends and family.

For those who choose it, we also offer Cremation Services; cremation can be a meaningful way in which many families mark the death of a loved one.

We offer services tailored to honor those who are military service members and veterans, as well.

To learn more about what we do, we invite you to select any of our individual services pages and seek further information.

The S.R. Avery Funeral Home takes great pride in its reputation of being the leading funeral service provider in our community. Our family and staff are dedicated to ensuring that each funeral reflects the unique life of the deceased and is meaningful and supportive for those left behind. We offer creative ideas and options to help tailor your arrangements to suit you and your family, and we take care of all the complex details for you.

We care about you and your family. Our staff of professional funeral directors have years of experience compassionately caring for families at the most difficult time of their lives. Our goal is to assist the family in their selection of a fitting tribute to their loved one. We offer families the choice of earth burial, cremation, aboveground entombment and other memorial options that meet the family's needs. We have designed our web site to answer many of the funeral service questions that people typically have. Please call or e-mail us if you have any additional questions or comments about our firm or any aspect of funeral service.

We are committed to providing the highest quality professional funeral service to those whom we are privileged to serve.

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Thanks to the generosity of Greg and Nancy (Avery) Brown, members of the Avery family, we have photos of Samuel R. Avery along with a photo of the hearse in 1920. Other members of the community have provdided the calendars and we are always grateful for being able to share our history.