Founded in 1957, Rocky Mount Memorial Park is easily one of the most beautiful, prestigious burial grounds in the region. Stunning Crepe Myrtles, Dogwood, Evergreen, River Birch, and Bradford Pear trees grace its expansive grounds, and various types of wildlife frequent the park. Gracefully curving boulevards wind around sweeping lawns with blended shrubbery, giving the area a park-like appearance. Bronze memorials are set level with the lush green lawn.
At Rocky Mount Memorial Park, we proudly serve people of all faiths and numerous programs throughout the year are held in the park, including Avenue of Flags, Good Friday Service, Memorial Day Services and the Holiday Program. We offer many burial options including traditional ground burial, mausoleum crypts and lawn crypts, and numerous cremation alternatives. With a wide range of memorialization alternatives, we are able to offer choices at a price to fit most budgets.
Rocky Mount Memorial Park Cemetery is proud to be family owned and operated. Our caring staff has over 100 years of experience in the cemetery profession. Our mission is to provide families with dignified, professional and affordable services as well as a peaceful and well-manicured place of remembrance. Our core belief is that every person is special and every person’s life should be celebrated. We can assist you with all aspects of planning and preparing for a burial or cremation place of rest. We offer traditional, non-traditional, cremation and personalized custom services.
We treat everyone with the highest degree of respect and reverence regardless of race, nationality, financial status or religious beliefs. We can accommodate all forms of services our spacious on-site Chapels, grave-side services or private services, or to the tranquility of our unique scattering pond.
Following since 1981 of dedication to the families of South Louisiana, Royal David along with his wife, Liz, set out to provide not only continued service to their community, but also to their own family of six children. In 2013 brought the family to settle in Rocky Mount and through the purchase of Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home continuing the long-standing tradition of families helping other families, as well as being the only family owned funeral home in Rocky Mount. Through exceptional service to the community and support from many families previously served, the David family acquired Rocky Mount Memorial Park and Johnson Funeral Home in March of 2016 bringing back the tradition of a family owned memorial park and funeral home to each as well.
With the transition from Louisiana to Rocky Mount, Royal and Liz bring with them a rich tradition of servitude to the Nash and Edgecombe Community as a second generation Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer and with them their children. Kemp David who is a third generation Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer since 2005 as well as providing service in the Army National Guard since 1994 and now serving as a Signal Officer in Virginia; and Dexter David who is a Funeral Service Trainee, a Certified Crematory Operator as well as an Assistant Defensive Coach for Rocky Mount Academy Football. The David’s embed-dement into the funeral profession and Nash and Edgecombe Communities is as well evident as Royal and Liz’s younger children, Mason whom began his career in computer technology with Batesville Casket Company in Batesville, Indiana which is also the leading manufacturer of today’s caskets, Andre David who is currently attending East Carolina University in Greenville and who plans to attend Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service after graduate from ECU, and Peyton David and Sarah Elizabeth David whom both attend Rocky Mount Academy and both of whom are local young athletes.
