City of Oaks Funeral Home & Cremation
Obituary
Claude Franklin “Frank” Burney
Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 71.
Died 12/16/2025.
Claude Franklin “Frank” Burney, 71, peacefully passed away at home, December 16, 2025. A memorial service will be at 1pm
PM, Sunday, February 1st at Hayes Barton United Methodist Church, 2209 Fairview Road, Raleigh,NC 27608. The family will receive friends after the service.
Frank was born March 10,1954 in Durham, NC to the late Virgil Franklin Burney and Evelyn Mae Burney. After graduating from Enloe High School in Raleigh, he earned a BS in Pharmacy from UNC- Chapel Hill. During his 5th and final year at UNC, Frank was introduced to his future spouse, Lisa Shackelford, and by Spring semester, the friend who introduced them, insisted Lisa and Frank go out on a date. Not long after indulging their friend, they both realized they were meant for each other. After college, Frank began his career in retail pharmacy with Revco in Wilkesboro, NC. As fate would have it, Lisa took a teaching position in North Wilkesboro and by Christmas 1977, they were engaged. They married July 29,1978, moved back to Raleigh soon thereafter to start a family, spend time with family and friends and attend more UNC football and basketball games. In 2001 after a long career with Revco/CVS Frank, lured away by the promise of no Sunday hours, went to work with Foodlion Drugs. Lisa immediately recruited him to teach children’s Sunday school. Much to his surprise, he grew to become a devoted, beloved and confident Preschool Sunday Team leader for the next 20 years. He retired from Foodlion in 2022 to travel with family and friends, spend more time at Kure Beach, attend UNC games, enjoy dinners out with the ROMEO’s and coffee chats with close friends. In December 2023, the new love of his life, Lucy Burney, made him a Gaga.
Frank was unpretentious, generous, genuine and trustworthy. He treated his patients with compassion, his colleagues with respect and his family and friends with loving care. His quiet, calm demeanor was a counterpoint to his big laugh and quick wit.
Frank is survived by his wife, Lisa; his brother Robert of North Myrtle Beach; son Chris Burney, his wife Carly Warner and granddaughter Lucille “Lucy” Burney of Durham; son Ian Burney and partner Samantha Jensen of Fuquay-Varina; 5 nieces, 3 nephews, 2 great nieces and 5 great nephews.
Due to allergies, the family requests in lieu of flowers please consider making memorial contributions to Hayes Barton UMC Pastors’ Discretionary Fund or Music Ministry 2209 Fairview Road, Raleigh, NC 27608.
For additional information or for service details, please reach out to the family directly.
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City of Oaks Cremation and Funeral Home is a full-service funeral home in Raleigh, serving all of North Carolina and beyond. We provide an alternative to costly funeral homes and every day we help families in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and all over North Carolina make simple, affordable funeral arrangements.
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Apples to Apples
Just like all other licensed funeral homes in North Carolina, City of Oaks Cremation, LLC is regulated by the NC Board of Funeral Service.
The same laws that apply to the big corporate funeral homes also apply to the modest independently owned firms like ours. All crematories in North Carolina, regardless of who owns them, are inspected annually by the state and must adhere to the same rules and laws.
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Our Funeral Home is located in Wake County NC; however, we provide our services to families throughout the entire State.
Unlike other funeral homes, we don't charge an additional mileage fee. Regardless of what county you live in, we can help your family with making simple, affordable funeral arrangements. From Asheville to Wilmington, we're proud to help families statewide.
Our Services
$1196.75
Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. We include everything you need for a simple or direct cremation. Simple, affordable and reliable. We have not changed the cost of our direct cremation service since we opened City of Oaks in 2012.
$2875.66
We offer the option of choosing how you receive your loved ones remains. Selecting our Direct Cremation with Solidified Remains option is a beautiful way to transform cremated remains into 40-60 “stones” that you can hold.
$1917.84
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation option with onsite visitation. Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. Simple, affordable and reliable.
$1596.75
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation with a private family viewing. A private family viewing allows up to 10 immediate family members or friends to spend time with a loved one when a public visitation is not preferred.
$2497.50
An immediate burial has the same end result as a traditional burial; however, we have eliminated the extra (sometimes unnecessary) services prior to getting to the cemetery. Not everyone wants an open casket for viewing or a limousine for the family. Despite the term immediate, we can move as fast as you need or as slow as you like. This option simply allows you to save money by eliminating some of the fancy extras at the funeral home.
$6081.48
We offer the same traditional funeral services as the big corporately owned funeral homes in the area; however, we cost about half the amount. You might consider a traditional funeral service if your family is looking for an open casket visitation, a traditional church service or a funeral service in the funeral home's chapel. A traditional funeral service can be altered to fit the needs of your family.
$3033.75
This establishment is one of a select number of funeral homes who meet the criteria for providing green funeral service by the Green Burial Council; a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainability in the field of funeral service. Our Green options allow for a funeral to take place without the use of toxic and non-biodegradable materials/chemicals.
$2640.59
As an alternative to traditional cremation, City of Oaks Funeral Home also offers Aquamation. The Aquamation process, often referred to as alkaline hydrolysis, uses a solution of water and potassium hydroxide to facilitate natural decomposition.