Little-Davenport Funeral Home

Little-Davenport Funeral Home is a funeral home in Gainesville, GA. The firm provides funeral and cremation services, including embalming, visitation, funeral service, use of hearse and flower van, limousines, musician services, register books, memorial folders, veterans flag cases, celebration of life videos, and remembrance registries. Pet cremation is also available through the staff's affiliated pet cremation service. Pre-planning and pre-arrangement services are offered alongside veteran-specific resources covering burial flags and headstones, with grief support materials and Social Security benefits information accessible through the business. The funeral home holds a rating of 3.70 based on 18 reviews. The firm was founded in 1954 by Alton M "Pete" Davenport and J. Paul Little, and was purchased in 2008 by Northeast Georgia Funeral Associates, with Kirk Barrett as owner. As the oldest locally owned and operated funeral home in Gainesville, the staff brings over 50 years of combined experience in the funeral industry. The team includes Jim Watkins, a Georgia licensed funeral director and embalmer since 1987 who also owns and operates Northeast Georgia Pet Cremations, and Austin Houston, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Georgia since 2016 who has worked in the funeral industry since 2011 and opened Houston's Monument and Cemetery Services in Gainesville in 2017. A payment center is available online, though the funeral home has publicly warned families about scammers requesting payment through online transfer systems. The funeral home sits on Dawsonville Highway and is a short distance from Lakeshore Mall, with Gainesville High School, Pearl Nix Parkway, and Longwood Park all within half a mile of the building. Serving Gainesville families since 1954, Little-Davenport Funeral Home remains the longest-operating locally owned funeral home in the city.