Peaks & Waters Memorial Funeral Care

Cremation Services, Mortuary Services in Durham, NC

Address
4914 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC, 27704
Phone
+19192145049
Website
peaksandwaters.com

About Peaks & Waters Memorial Funeral Care

Peaks & Waters Memorial Funeral Care sits on North Roxboro Street in Durham, and the family thread runs through everything it does. Its co-owner, Dr. Christion Waters, began funeral service work at age thirteen in a family firm, and that early apprenticeship shaped the whole enterprise. Before returning to the profession full time he served as a law enforcement officer with the Winston-Salem Police Department and worked in decedent care at Duke University Hospital, then built Waters Mortuary Transport before helping found the firm that carries his name today. The other half of the partnership, Rev. Curtis Peaks, is a Durham native and a graduate of Hillside High School. He came up through the trade at Hanes Funeral Service under the guidance of Bishop F.O. Hanes, and he brought an entrepreneur's habits with him, founding Legacy Memorial Keepsakes, a custom funeral graphics and printing company, along the way. The house that he and Dr. Waters run now grew out of an earlier partnership, Weaver & Peaks Memorial Funeral Care, and the lineage is worn openly rather than hidden. What the firm offers reflects both men's range. Families can arrange a traditional funeral and burial, a memorial service or celebration of life, or cremation, either direct or paired with a service, through Affordable Tarheel State Cremation Services, a statewide cremation brand the firm introduced. There are veteran services with military honors, multicultural and religious observances arranged to a family's own tradition, green burial options, pre-planning for those who want to decide ahead of time, and all-inclusive packages for households that would rather not assemble a funeral piece by piece. Grief support and flower delivery round out the practical side, and the firm answers calls around the clock for families facing an immediate need. The practice is built on five stated pillars, Integrity, Service, Honesty, Excellence, and Family, and the founding motto, "Service of Distinction and Class, with Integrity," is the standard the owners hold their staff to. The bench behind them carries real credentials. Samuel Robertson is a licensed funeral director and embalmer with more than fifteen years in the profession, licensed in both North Carolina and Virginia. Dr. Ron Bigelow, the office manager, spent twenty-seven years as an educator and more than five decades in music ministry before adding two decades in funeral service. Rev. Reggie Boynton, a licensed minister and accountant, assists families through the arrangements themselves. By 2025 the firm's fleet had grown to three limousines, two hearses, and a customized utility van, the sort of quiet capacity that lets a house serve larger services without borrowing. Its reach extends well past Durham to Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Cary, Apex, Raleigh, and the surrounding North Carolina towns. The generational note is not incidental: the owners speak of a next generation already in the building, and the firm describes itself plainly, "not just a firm, we are family," walking with the households it serves the way it says family should.

The firm traces back to Weaver & Peaks Memorial Funeral Care, an earlier partnership that evolved into Peaks & Waters when Rev. Curtis Peaks joined with Dr. Christion Waters. Peaks, a Durham native and Hillside High School graduate, learned the trade at Hanes Funeral Service under Bishop F.O. Hanes and also founded Legacy Memorial Keepsakes. Waters started in funeral service at thirteen in a family firm, later worked as a Winston-Salem police officer and in decedent care at Duke University Hospital, earned a Ph.D. in 2024, and introduced the firm's statewide Affordable Tarheel State Cremation Services. Together they built an independently owned house organized around five pillars, Integrity, Service, Honesty, Excellence, and Family, and the founders point openly to a next generation being raised into the work.

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