Wendell
Wendell
Service with Pride and Dignity for over a Quarter of a Century
Phone 919-365-3612, 24 hours a day
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Welcome to the Strickland Funeral Home website. Our family owned firm was started in 1983 by Jerry Wade Strickland and Rudy Vallee Pearce, Sr. It was started with the belief that every family should be able to say goodbye to their loved one in the way that they need too. Since its inception Strickland Funeral Home has helped families weather the storm providing Service with Pride and Dignity which still stands today, tomorrow, and for many more tomorrows.
Strickland Funeral Home serves, Wake, Johnston, Nash, Franklin, Wilson, and any other county where a family needs us.
Our Mission
Our Mission at Strickland Funeral Home is to help families through the most difficult times of their lives. Like our company emblem we like to shelter the family from storm. We want to help create A celebration to the light that was your loved one which is both meaningful and memorable.
Company Profile
Jerry Strickland
Jerry Wade Strickland has been in the funeral service for over 40 years. He started his career many years ago at Lewis Funeral Home. He attended Cincinnati Mortuary College where he was a member Pi Sigma Etta Fraternity. While there he won the prestigious award for Restorative Arts. Following graduation Jerry went to work at Brown Wynne Funeral Home in Raleigh. When Brown Wynne purchased Lewis Funeral Home, Jerry went there as manager. In 1983 Jerry Strickland along with his business partner Rudy Vallee Pearce, Sr. started Strickland Funeral Home which has provided the best possible funerals and memorials to families when they've needed it most. Jerry and Rudy always ensured that no family was ever taken advantage of and believed that all families were equal and deserved the best service which could be offered. During this time he was also part owner of Baughs Florist. Jerry is a licensee of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards of the United States, and an embalmer and funeral director licensed by North Carolina Board of Funeral Service.
Rudy V. Pearce
Rudy Vallee Pearce, Sr. is the middle child of 5 boys and grew up in the Pearces community. After graduation from Bunn High School he served as a law enforcement officer with the Raleigh Police Department. He transferred to the CCBI, City County Bureau of Identification, where he set up and established the procedures that still followed by the officers of the CCBI today. Rudy graduated from Shaw University with a degree in Business Administration. After retiring from the Police force, Rudy bought and managed Baughs Florist with his business partner Jerry Strickland. In 1983 he and Jerry opened Strickland Funeral Home. Rudy has two children, a son, Rudy Pearce, Jr., a daughter Monica Nowell, and two grandchildren, Courtney and Rudy III. Rudy is a funeral director licensed by the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service.
Sean Bannon
Sean Bannon has been in Funeral Service for 18 years. He grew up in Rocky Point, NC, a farm community near Wilmington, with his brothers and sisters, 7 in all. He attend Topsail High School in Hampstead where he graduated in 1991. After graduation Sean served his apprenticeship at Munden Funeral Home in Morehead City. He Graduated from Fayetteville Technical Community College with his Associates Degree in Mortuary Science. Following graduation he worked at Clements Funeral Service in Durham, Mitchell Funeral Home in Raleigh, and over six years as manager of Griffin Funeral Service in Pittsboro, North Carolina. In 2003 after many years of friendship with Jerry Strickland and Rudy Pearce, Sean became a partner with them at Strickland Funeral Home. In August of 2005, Sean married Suza Harris Bannon and they have a son named Nikko. Sean is a licensee of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards of the United States, and an embalmer and funeral director licensed by North Carolina Board of Funeral Service.
What we stand for_____________________
Strickland Funeral Home helps give the family the choices that they need, whatever they may be, to say goodbye.
We are members of the North Carolina Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association, Wendell Chamber of Commerce, Zebulon Chamber of Commerce and the NFIB.
We are a local, family owned, independent funeral home. we specialize in funerals, cremations, memorial services and celebrations of life,.
Contact Information
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Please contact us 24 hours a day, any day of the year. Whenever you need us please call.
If you'd like any information mailed to you we'd be more than happy to do so. We would be glad to mail you a general price list, casket, vault, or urn price list as well as any other pamphlets we have regarding funerals, memorials, cremations or grief support.
