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Weldon, Halifax County & nearby communities
Find a Cofield Obituary, Read the Service Plan and Know Where to Go
People often search for “Cofield Funeral Home,” but the official business name is Cofield Mortuary in Weldon, North Carolina. Its website maintains the obituary directory and individual memorial pages.
Use this page to search a name, understand a memorial, check a livestream notice, sign a guestbook, verify service locations, find an older obituary or prepare for an immediate-need call.
Start with the correct business
Cofield Funeral Home Obituaries: Quick Answer
The official Cofield obituary directory is the best starting point. It provides a name-search field and links to individual memorial pages rather than requiring you to search unrelated public-record websites.
Do not rely only on the funeral-home address when attending a service. Cofield memorials commonly separate viewing, Celebration of Life and interment into different venues.
It opens Cofield Mortuary’s official obituary directory with a name-search field and access to individual memorial pages.
Search by name
How to Find a Specific Cofield Mortuary Obituary
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Open Cofield’s official obituary page
The page contains a search box specifically for Cofield memorial listings.
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Enter the person’s name
Start with the full name. If that fails, shorten the query instead of adding guessed information.
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Open the individual memorial
The full obituary is more useful than the directory result because it can contain confirmed arrangement details.
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Verify the person
Compare the name with dates, city or county and other public information shown in the memorial.
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Read the service section
Use the event listings for dates, times, addresses and directions rather than relying only on text inside the obituary.
If the name search gives no result
Confirm the dates, location and other public details before deciding that a memorial belongs to the person you are researching.
Turn the obituary into useful information
What a Cofield Memorial Page Can Tell You
Cofield frequently handles arrangements for families across the Weldon–Roanoke Rapids–Halifax–Northampton County area, while the actual service may be held at the family’s church or cemetery outside Weldon.
Do not go to the wrong address
How a Cofield Funeral Day Can Move Between Locations
Official Cofield memorials show that one family’s arrangements can use several locations. Treat each event as a separate destination.
Before attending, verify these eight items
Remote attendance
How Cofield Funeral Livestreams and Recorded Services Work
Cofield does not appear to promise a livestream for every funeral. Instead, individual obituaries may announce that a service will be livestreamed, recorded or later uploaded through the Cofield Mortuary Facebook page.
That distinction matters: some memorials say “live-streamed,” while others state that the funeral will be recorded and uploaded later.
If the obituary says “livestreamed”
Check the memorial close to the service time for the current viewing instruction or Cofield Facebook route.
If it says “recorded and uploaded”
Do not assume a live broadcast will be available. The video may appear on Facebook after the service.
The safest workflow is to read the individual memorial. Livestream availability is family- and service-specific.
It opens the Cofield Mortuary Facebook presence used by official obituary notices for livestreamed or uploaded funeral services when announced.
Condolence options
What You Can Do From a Cofield Online Guestbook
Many Cofield memorials include a guestbook below the obituary. The available controls can provide more flexibility than a simple public comment box.
Flowers
Individual obituaries may provide a flower-ordering option linked to the family memorial.
Sympathy card
Some memorials offer a card option for sharing sympathy with the family.
Plant trees
Some memorial pages include a remembrance-tree option alongside flowers or cards.
Open the person’s memorial first. Use the guestbook or tribute options connected with that specific obituary rather than a generic third-party condolence page.
Historical lookup
How Far Back Do Cofield Mortuary Obituaries Go?
Publicly accessible obituary pages on Cofield’s official website reach back at least into 2007. That makes the funeral home’s own website useful for more than only recent notices.
This does not prove that every obituary since 2007 is online. Older funeral records and the public web archive should not automatically be treated as identical.
A missing web obituary does not prove Cofield never served the family. It only means the notice was not located through the public online search.
A death has occurred
Cofield Offers Two Immediate-Arrangement Routes
Option 1: Arrange in person
Cofield’s Immediate Need page instructs families to call (252) 536-3171 to make arrangements in person with a funeral professional.
You can make the first call before every funeral detail has been decided.
Option 2: Start online
Cofield also provides an online immediate-arrangement form for families who want to begin supplying information electronically.
What the form is for
It collects family contact information, information about the deceased and initial service preferences.
Service choices shown on Cofield’s form
Use Cofield’s authorized form or telephone contact when providing personal details about a deceased person or family.
Planning before an immediate need
What Cofield’s Preplanning Form Lets You Decide Ahead of Time
Cofield provides a separate Plan Ahead workflow. A family can arrange an in-person planning appointment or submit the online preplanning form for follow-up.
It opens Cofield’s official preplanning page with in-person planning information and its online preplanning form.
Arrival information
Cofield Mortuary Address, Parking and Facility Details
Cofield Mortuary
501 West Third Street
P.O. Box 72
Weldon, NC 27890
Phone:
(252) 536-3171
Fax:
(252) 536-3910
The funeral home’s official website also states that the establishment is family-owned and licensed in both North Carolina and Virginia.
Driving from I-95
Cofield’s location page directs drivers to take I-95 Exit 173 to Highway 158 East.
It says to travel about two miles; the mortuary is on the right, just inside Weldon’s city limits.
What is available at the Weldon facility?
Inside the building
- Spacious chapel
- Viewing rooms
- Casket display rooms
- Waiting area / lounge
Parking and operations
- Parking on the west side
- Parking on the east side
- Additional parking across the street
- Funeral transportation fleet
- Grave-opening equipment
The mortuary can handle the arrangements even when the Celebration of Life is at another church. Follow the address on the person’s service listing rather than automatically driving to West Third Street.
Google Map — Cofield Mortuary, Weldon
Open Google Maps directions to Cofield Mortuary
It opens Cofield’s own facility page with the I-95 directions, parking description and building features.
Who the official site identifies
Licensed and Management Roles Listed by Cofield
For readers trying to confirm who is associated with the funeral home, Cofield’s official staff page currently identifies the following licensed or management roles.
The same staff page also lists funeral-service attendants, an administrative specialist and an audio/video specialist. Staff assignments can change, so use Cofield’s current page for the latest roster.
It opens Cofield Mortuary’s official staff directory with names and current listed roles.
Why service locations can look unusual
Cofield Memorials Can Extend Beyond Weldon
Cofield’s official website states that the establishment is licensed in both North Carolina and Virginia. Its obituary pages also show that memorial events are not limited to the Weldon building.
Official notices have included services or interments in communities such as Roanoke Rapids, Halifax, Gaston, Garysburg, Jackson, Littleton and Enfield, and some arrangements have included Virginia venues.
Weldon
Cofield’s chapel and viewing rooms can be used for funeral-home events.
Family church
A Celebration of Life may instead take place in the deceased person’s church community.
Cemetery
Interment may require travel to a church, family, memorial or veterans cemetery.
Freshness matters
Do Not Treat Cofield’s 2020 COVID Notice as a Current 2026 Rule
Cofield’s homepage still contains a COVID-19 notice dated March 2020 and references restrictions that applied during that period.
Because that notice is historical, it should not automatically be interpreted as Cofield’s current attendance, distancing or service policy in 2026.
Check the individual obituary and call Cofield at (252) 536-3171 if the memorial does not clearly answer your question.
More than an obituary website
Planning Resources Available Through Cofield
Cofield’s Planning Insights section focuses on creating a meaningful funeral or memorial and describes the role of licensed funeral professionals in helping families make decisions and handle required documentation.
Planning Insights
Useful when a family wants to understand why funeral rituals, personalization and advance choices may matter.
Planning Guide / Brochure
Cofield’s planning pages advertise downloadable planning material. A stable standalone PDF URL was not independently verified for this rebuild.
For that reason, this article summarizes the verified planning choices and links to Cofield’s official planning pages instead of inventing a PDF address.
No mystery buttons
Official Cofield Links — What Each One Opens
Obituaries
Use it when: you want to find a deceased person’s Cofield memorial.
Immediate Need
Use it when: a death has occurred and the family needs to begin arrangements.
Plan Ahead
Use it when: you want to document choices before a death occurs.
Weldon Location
Use it when: you need the physical address, I-95 directions, parking or facility information.
Our Staff
Use it when: you want the names and roles Cofield currently publishes.
Planning Insights
Use it when: you want guidance on meaningful funeral planning and advance choices.
Product Showroom
Use it when: a family making arrangements wants to preview merchandise choices.
Cofield Facebook
Use it when: an individual obituary specifically says a service will be livestreamed or uploaded there.
Fast answers
10 FAQs About Cofield Funeral Home Obituaries
1. Is Cofield Funeral Home the same as Cofield Mortuary?
People commonly search for “Cofield Funeral Home,” but the official business name used on the funeral home’s website is Cofield Mortuary in Weldon, North Carolina.
2. Where can I search Cofield Mortuary obituaries?
Use Cofield Mortuary’s official obituary directory at cofieldmortuary.com/obits. The page provides the funeral home’s own obituary-search field and links to individual memorial pages.
3. What details can a Cofield obituary include?
A Cofield memorial can include life dates, obituary text, viewing information, Celebration of Life details, interment, directions, guestbook, flowers, sympathy options and livestream or recording information when applicable.
4. How do I know where a Cofield funeral service will be held?
Read each event on the individual memorial. Viewing may occur at Cofield Mortuary while the Celebration of Life is held at a church and interment takes place at another cemetery.
5. Does Cofield Mortuary livestream funeral services?
Some individual obituaries announce that a funeral will be livestreamed through Cofield Mortuary’s Facebook page. Other notices say the service will be recorded and uploaded later, so check the specific obituary instead of assuming every service is live.
6. Can I sign an online guestbook for a Cofield obituary?
Many Cofield memorial pages include an online guestbook. Available options can include a condolence message, a private-message choice, photo upload and virtual candle selection.
7. How old are the obituaries available on Cofield’s website?
Publicly accessible obituary pages on Cofield’s official website reach back at least to 2007. That does not guarantee that every historical funeral or obituary is available online.
8. What is Cofield Mortuary’s phone number and address?
Cofield Mortuary is at 501 West Third Street, Weldon, NC 27890. The main telephone number is (252) 536-3171.
9. What should I do if a death has just occurred?
Cofield’s Immediate Need page offers two routes: call (252) 536-3171 to arrange an in-person meeting or begin through the funeral home’s official online arrangement form.
10. Does Cofield Mortuary offer burial and cremation planning?
Yes. Cofield’s immediate and preplanning forms list burial, cremation and mausoleum entombment as final-disposition choices, with public or private options for visitation, funeral service, committal and family gathering.