ABOUT US

Since our founding, the guiding principle of Gordon Funeral Home of Mt. Pleasant has been the commitment to treating each family who comes to us as our own. With sincerity, pride, and dedication, we are committed to this time-honored tradition.

Our family opened the doors of the funeral home years ago. Our reputation for providing the highest quality of service grew, and today we are privileged to serve hundreds of area families each year. 

In recent years, we’ve gathered together a staff of highly-qualified and deeply caring individuals to assist us in continuing the funeral home’s mission of providing excellence in service to families in their time of need.

Whether you have an immediate need for our services or you wish to begin pre-planning a funeral arrangement for you or someone you love, call us. We will be proud to serve you.

At Gordon Funeral Home, our Mt. Pleasant roots run deep and wide.

We trace our beginning to the early 1900s when John L. C. Miller, owner of Miller Lumber Company, partnered with Paul Foil, owner of Foil Funeral Home, to better serve their community. Miller’s business made wooden boxes and Foil’s business had need of a local supplier who could produce custom-made wooden coffins. The businesses were located on Jackson Street, where Miller Lumber is still in operation.



By the mid-1940s, Moses Dwight Kluttz, the lumber company manager, sold his interest in the funeral home to Foil. In 1946, Henry F. Penninger, bought the funeral home business from Foil and in 1950 relocated it to a new building that housed both his business and his family’s home on Main Street. After his death in 1964, his widow Edith Fisher Peninger, sold the business to a young couple, Johnny and Carolyn Gordon, who moved from Monroe to continue the business in Mt. Pleasant as Gordon-Peninger Funeral Home.

The Gordons raised their family of three daughters in Mt. Pleasant. Their oldest, Johnette, attracted the attention of a high school classmate, David Preddy, who became interested in the funeral business while dating the funeral director’s daughter. By the time David and Johnette married in 1983, David was a funeral service licensee having graduated from Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science in Atlanta in 1981. David gained valuable experience while employed with two other North Carolina funeral establishments. He and Johnette returned to Mt. Pleasant in 1985 to run the family business. Johnette became a licensed funeral director in 1986.



By 1990, Gordon Funeral Home moved into a modern facility at 8559 Cook Street that offers ample off-street parking and a variety of spaces where families and friends gather and celebrate the lives of their loved ones. As Johnny and Carolyn began preparing for retirement, they sold their interests in Gordon Funeral Home to David and Johnette in 2017. In 2019, a crematory was added, and the business was renamed Gordon Funeral Home and Crematory.

With the exception of educational opportunities that took them outside of Cabarrus County, Mt. Pleasant is home. David is a 1979 graduate of MPHS, following Johnette’s lead a year earlier. A 1982 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johnette worked in the IT industry for 30 years before retiring in 2018 and now works in the family business.



David and Johnette are joined by their son, Gordon, a 2008 MPHS graduate and a 2012 Campbell University graduate with dual degrees in professional golf management and business administration. He is a 2019 graduate of Fayetteville Technical College’s funeral service curriculum. Gordon and his wife, Brooke, are the parents of one son, Palmer. When not working at the funeral home, Gordon coaches the boys’ and girls’ golf teams at MPHS.