Ivie's Heritage

Ive Funeral Home

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Regal Hotel, Murphy, NC

Our heritage here in Cherokee and Clay counties began back one cold snowy day on February 19,1934. Peyton G. and Edythe Grier Ivie traveled from Cornelia, Georgia with the vision of Ivie Funeral Home.

They rented a space in the Regal Hotel opening a furniture store in the front and a funeral parlor in the back. At first they rented
an apartment but money was tight, so Mr. Ivie built a loft over the furniture store for them to live.

Mrs. Ivie had no stove or oven, so she cooked on a hot plate, baked her cornbread in the hotel oven downstairs and kept her milk in an icebox across the street at the
service station. The Ivies lived there three years. Funeral business was very slow at first and Mr. Ivie recounted how they would have starved if the T.V.A. (Tennessee Valley Authority) had not moved to the area.

Then in 1937, Mr. Ivie purchased the property at 307 Valley River Ave from Jim Green. In June of 1939 Wade Massey completed the new funeral home and residence for Mr. And Mrs. Ivie. The property was transformed many times through the years by Mr. Ivie but remained in use until 1990. On June 16, 1990 Grier Ivie, son of Peyton and Edythe Ivie, opened the current facility on Peachtree Street.

Mrs. Edythe Ivie

Mr. & Mrs. Peyton Ivie & Ivie Furniture Co.

Mr. Ivie purchased the Frank Herbert property in Hayesville in 1939, opening a furniture store and funeral home for the people of Clay County.

Through the years, the Ivie family has contributed to the community in many ways. We hope you will enjoy our vintage photos as much as we do!