Albritton-Carraway Funeral Home

Albritton-Carraway Funeral Home is a funeral home in Kinston, NC, serving families across Kinston and surrounding communities. The firm offers traditional funerals, cremation services, and memorial services, and assists families with pre-planning and pre-arrangements. It holds a rating of 4.30 based on 8 reviews.

Operating in Kinston since the early 1900s, the home was originally known as Albritton Brothers Funeral Home and is recognized as the oldest African American funeral home in the city. Its services span the full range of options families may consider, from traditional funerals and cremation to unique ceremonies tailored to specific cultural and religious customs, and the firm notes experience in honoring many faiths. Beyond funeral, memorial, and burial services, it maintains dedicated veterans pages covering veterans headstones and burial flags, and supplies Social Security benefit information as part of its resources. The website also offers grief support with a year of daily emailed messages, recent obituary listings for communities including Kinston, Deep Run, and Grifton, and a staff of licensed professionals available to answer questions. The funeral home can be reached by phone at 252-523-1366 around the clock.

The funeral home sits at 500 E Blount Street, roughly a quarter mile from Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, about 0.2 miles from J H Sampson Elementary School, and approximately 0.4 miles from both the Kinston Post Office and the Lenoir County Criminal Justice building, with Lewis Elementary School and East King Street both within a third of a mile.

Backed by a solid reputation among the families it has served and more than a century of continuous operation in Kinston, Albritton-Carraway stands as the longest-running African American funeral home in the city.