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Badger Funeral Home serving since 1854

Badger Funeral Home in West Jefferson, North Carolina has served Ashe County since 1854.  The firm is the oldest on-going business in Ashe County and the 16th oldest funeral home in the state of North Carolina.  Badger Funeral Home evolved from the cabinet and casket building skills of William Badger, a veteran of the Confederate Army in the Civil War who migrated to Ashe County from Petersburg, Virginia, before the war.  The funeral home has been at its present location since the 1930's in a building formerly used as a residence and as a boarding house for a nearby school.  One of the old horse drawn hearses used for funerals is still stored at the funeral home today.  The building was extensively renovated in 1988 with the addition of a new chapel and the total restructuring and redecorating of the main floor and upper floor.