Co-op Funeral Directors is owned by your local co-operative society, Chelmsford Star, which was founded in in 1867. They’ve been doing funerals since 1936. Chelmsford Star Co-op is affiliated to the wider co-operative movement but remains proudly independent and self-governing. It is not a part of The Co-operative Group nor Read more [...]
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Robson Funeral Service (Bridgwater)
Funeral Director/s Mark Robson DipFD is the owner of this funeral business in Bridgwater, and it will be either Mark Robson, Orlando Levy or Nick Rayfield who will greet you when you step in through the door of their lovely premises. Mark has been involved with funerals since he was Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Arnold)
A.W. Lymn is a large family firm founded in 1907. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Family businesses can run out of steam and get very complacent. Big businesses can be faceless and impersonal. This is not what you want from a funeral director. But Lymn’s has admirably and triumphantly Read more [...]
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Arthur C Towner Ltd (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Funeral Director(s) Oliver Towner, BA(Hons). Sixth generation of the Towner family. The business was started by his great-great-great grandfather, in 1875. Masses of heritage here, but absolutely none of the nothing-to-learn attitude which besets many such family affairs. Those vocational impulses Oliver experienced when he was a teenager all guided him Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Camden Town)
The Leverton family has been arranging funerals for people in this part of London since 1789. Yes, they’re now into their eighth generation; they’re steeped in heritage, drenched in history. This makes them an attractive-seeming proposition. After all, a good old family business is exactly what most of us hope Read more [...]
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Bennetts Funeral Directors Ltd. (Brentwood)
Jane Bennett is the managing director and the inspirational heart of this award winning, well-known and highly respected funeral business. She has been at the helm of Bennetts Funeral Directors Ltd since leaving a career in the City in 1988, and is the third generation of the Bennett family to Read more [...]
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Andrew Johnson Funeral Services (Plumstead)
Andrew Johnson. Immensely personable, warm and likeable, Andrew has created a genuinely family run funeral business which began in 2011 when he left the Army. He had a successful military career before changing direction and becoming a funeral director – something he has never regretted at all. Andrew had felt Read more [...]
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Coles Funeral Directors (Rumney)
Gareth Coles, the managing director and the inspirational heart of Coles Funeral Directors is the founder of the business, and is ably supported by his wife Francesca who is Head of Communications, and fellow funeral directors Steven Long and Angela Thomas. Alongside them is a team of exceptionally well trained Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Kentish Town)
The Leverton family has been arranging funerals for people in this part of London since 1789. Yes, they’re now into their eighth generation; they’re steeped in heritage, drenched in history. This makes them an attractive-seeming proposition. After all, a good old family business is exactly what most of us hope Read more [...]
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AJB Funerals (Chippenham)
Previously known as Bewley and Merrett, the company changed names in 2018 to reflect the people who actually own and run the company, and in 2020 rebranded to become AJB Funerals. Aaron Bewley is the third generation funeral director who runs this company, having worked alongside his late father Jonathon Read more [...]
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P. G. Oxley Clacton-on-Sea
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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Neville Funerals Stopsley
Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for 150 years this year (2025), but they are not standing still, nor taking anything for granted. Still family run, Neville Trust, led by the fifth generation, has overall control of the both the funeral business and their Read more [...]
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Rowland Brothers (New Addington)
A selection of quite the nicest, most personable and knowledgeable people make up the staff of this highly respected funeral director company, and you will be looked after throughout your dealings with them by the staff at the branch you make contact with. Independently owned and run, Rowland Brothers has Read more [...]
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Saint and Forster Funeral Directors Ltd
Keith Munt and his wife Jenny. Keith, a funeral director with many years’ experience, left a large corporate funeral business on what he describes as ethical grounds, having found it impossible to continue focusing on targets and profit rather than on the needs of each bereaved family. Soon after walking Read more [...]
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Janet C. Davies of Kelvedon
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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Wallace Stuart Independent Lady Funeral Directors
Owner / Funeral Director Wallace Stuart is a fairly young business that was set up by two remarkable, intelligent and capable women, Sarah Moore (née Stuart) and Lesley (Lel) Wallace. Lel always wanted to be a funeral director, but her parents gently nudged her away from her childhood dream. She Read more [...]
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Selsdon & District Funeral Service
Michael Wort and Gary Morriss are the two funeral directors here, supported by Sue who holds the fort when they are out of the branch. Both Michael and Gary hold the Diploma in Funeral Directing and the licence to practice issued by the British Institute of Funeral Directors, (Selsdon & Read more [...]
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Dandelion Farewells
Funeral Director Judith Dandy Dip FS, LMBIFD. Winner of the Most Promising New Funeral Director category in the 2016 Good Funeral Awards. In the decade since then, Judith has become one of the most highly respected of the new breed of artisan funeral professionals. Dandelion Farewells is the realisation of the Read more [...]
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Arthur C Towner Ltd (St. Leonards-on-Sea)
Funeral Director(s) Oliver Towner, BA(Hons). Sixth generation of the Towner family. The business was started by his great-great-great grandfather, in 1875. Masses of heritage here, but absolutely none of the nothing-to-learn attitude which besets many such family affairs. Those vocational impulses Oliver experienced when he was a teenager all guided him Read more [...]
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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Ashford)
Who\’s who Oliver Holmes Dip F A.A., Dip F.D. One of the sons of David Holmes (who founded the company and who attends 99% of funerals as a driver / bearer), Ollie is a former professional rugby player who has settled into the role of being in charge of the Read more [...]