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Dear Michael And staff

Thank you all very much for being so kind and understanding following the death of Vera Davies. it was very much appreciated by Jack and ourselves

  • thank you for everything you did for my dads funeral you made the day a lot easier for all of us as you took care of everything, love from Ed Gloria, Glenn & Betty xxx

  • Thank you for the efficient arrangements of our mum & dad's funerals. at a very sad and difficult time for everyone, it was a great help to know and be reasurred that all the families would be taken care of. A special thank you to Christine and those who accompanied her, as they ensured both funerals were conducted in a dignified manner. Kind regards Copley family.

  • we would like to convey our most grateful thanks to you "Michael" for the way you and your staff treated our son Mark, before and after his cremation last Friday thank you again most sincerely Trevor and Edith Adamson.

  • Thank you very much for your loving & caring services provided

    George & family

  • Many many thanks for all your help and excellent funeral arrangements. Thanks Cath Pritchard & Family (Ronnie Dobsons family)

  • We would just like to say a massive thank you for your support and kind words over the last 2 weeks, you made an extremely difficult time as easy as you possibly could, you did a wonderful job looking after Cameron and we cant thank you enough for that. Love Kerry, Craig & Taylor xxx

  • We would like to say a big thank you, your help was invaluable, your caring professional and very compassionate manner was much appeciated, Yours sincerely from the family of olive Watts. From Granville, Kath, Paul, Jackie, grandchildren & great grandchildren xxx  

  • We would like to say a big thank you, your help was invaluable, your caring professional and very compassionate manner was much appeciated, Yours sincerely from the family of olive Watts. From Granville, Kath, Paul, Jackie, grandchildren & great grandchildren xxx  

  • Thanks for your care and compassion at this sad time

    From the Szalacsi family

  • Thanks for your care and compassion at this sad time

    From the Szalacsi family

  • A big thank you from most of the family of Arnold & Yvonne Smith we could not have got through it without you, Phillip says a big thank you. Pam Wright xx

  • Just wanted to say - many thanks to everyone for the kindness, care and understanding shown to me during this sad time, I could not have managed without you, also  thank you Bob for the excellent care given to mum and kindness. It was so thoughtful of you to show mum the flowers and read the messages. Fineally the funeral arrangements for Eddie (Dad) were excellent and he would have been proud. Thank you Sheila 

  • Just  wanted to send a note to say thank you for handling the arrangements for our son Callum's funeral we appreciated the sensitivity and professionalism that you all showed. Thanks again & kind regards Sally & Mark Smith.

  • Thank you doesn't really say enough to express our appreciation of everything you did for dad and us. We have received many comments on the service and how well everything was organised and refelcted dads personality. Mum has been full of praise for you and all of those who helped in making the day, in her words "Special. Thank you Barry (Jue) & all of the Clegg family xx"

  • We just waqnted to express our thanks to you for your support and advice concerning the funeral arrangements for my mum. Although the day was very sad it was also made special through your kindness, support and advice. You were caring and understanding, nothing was too much trouble for you to arrange. Many of the family and friends who attended have since commented upon and touching the arrangements were and upon how kind you and your collegues were throughout the day. With kindest regards Kevan and Penny Thompson

  • To say thank you isn't enough, you took all the stress when we hadn't the strength to cope, you went that extra mile to make life easier at an unbearable time, for this we are so grateful. with love from the family of Maureen Fearnley

  • Thank you  for your input to each aspect of the funeral arrangements for mum, Elsie Jordan, on 2nd December 2011. A difficult time went very smoothly with your help and we felt that everything was done sensitively and with care. Barbara & Shirley Jordan.  

  • Just to say thank you for all your kindness & professional service & support throughout the past weeks. It has made everything easier to bear & we felt in safe hands. Kind regards Anne Valetine & family.

  • Thanks for all your help and guidence through a very difficult time, thanks again Max & Mary Cartwright

  • Many great thanks for the kindness, help and support you have shown to us on the death of my mum, thank you for looking after her, and for the lovely and respectful funeral arrangements. from Angie, Megan, Mia & brother Raymond.

  • Dear Christine just a quick note to say thanks for all your efforts in making my dads funeral & all the prior arrangments go smoothly & without error in a dignified & respectful manner regards Andy Fox

  • We cant thank you enough for all your kindness. Terry & Tina Golding Anns daughters Jane, Cath & son Stephen xx

  • Thank you all so much for helping me to organise such a lovely, gentle and respectful send off for my mum. Thank you love from Joanne xxxx

  • Thank you for all your help with mums funeral you made a very tough time a little bit easier, mum looked lovely and we appreciate everything you did. Thanks the Steane family xxxxxx

  • Thank you for all your help with mums funeral you made a very tough time a little bit easier, mum looked lovely and we appreciate everything you did. Thanks the Steane family xxxxxx

  • For your thoughtfulness everything you have done your professionalism from all the family of the late Barny McDonnell, thank you all so much.

  • Thank you for your kindness & help. thank you for all you did & looking after our dad whilst he was with you all at R. J. Burgess, kindest regards, Laura, Mark, Amy & Ebeu xxx (Re - Colin Thompson).

  • Thank you for your efficiency & consideration upon our sad loss of our mum, Lily Worthington. Ian, Paul, Adrian & family. 

  • We wanted to say a special thank you for your care, consideration and attention to detail, in relation to Jack's funeral. It is always a difficult time for a family and you took extra care of every arrangement for which we are extremely grateful. The crematorium service was very personal and we are so pleased with the way the Minister conducted the service. At no stage during the day did we worry, as you handled everything with ease and professionalism. We would like to thank you for arranging for Jack's ashes to be strewn on the Lambert grave. The words and the sentiments you used were very relevant and moving. Jack is now at peace with his true love Doris. Thank you for making our memories good ones. Kind regards Stephen Midgley On behalf of Dennis and the Midgley family.

  • Many thanks for your efficient and caring arrangements of Irene's funeral. Many thanks to Christine for making Irene look so peaceful & beautiful its the way we will always remember her - many thanks Richard and both families x.

  • Thank you so much for making mum's funeral very special, your sensitivity, compassion and professionalism are of a very high standard which evidently displayed from start to finish. Kind regards Neil, Julie & family.

  • Thank you all so much for your caring and compassion shown to myself, family and friends at this difficult time, it was a great help and comfort to me to know everything was being done to help ease the pain, thank you so much for looking after Jim for me.  Myself and all the family want to say thank you so much. our very best wishes, June Dimmock and family, especially for the hugs, love June xx. 

  • A big thank you for makeing everything so personal and special. Lots of love Gary, Louise, Joanne & Julie (Sadler) xxx

  • Just a brief note to say many thanks for the excellent way you organised and handled everything for dad's funeral last month and also for mums last September. We really appreciate everything you & your team have done. Many thanks & regards, Steve Walker.

  • Many thanks for the funeral service you provided for my husband Roy Handscombe from Jean Handscombe and family

  • Re John Colin Teal 10.2.51 - 2.611 I am writing to thank you on behalf of mum, Enid Teal, John my brother and Phil my husband and myself for all your guidence, suppport, care and compassion in respect of dad's funeral arrangements, your help has been invaluble, sensitive and incredibly professional, yet inobtrusive. Colin/dad's ladty officers were profounded to the highest standard and he looked peaceful, dignified and smart, which he liked to be in life! seeing him was very important and we thank you for enabling us to do so and keep goog memories of this. thanks also for all your assistance with actual funeral crematorium and Barry Lotz arrangements, they too are much appreciated. It's not something any of us wish to go through, albeit it is inevuitable, but with your excellent service the whole process has been made so much easier. We have no hesitation in recommending you to others and if we have the occasion to go through this again would choose to use your services. Thank you very much for making our farewell to Colin/dadjust right. On behalf of all of us Teal family

  • It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have received an award from Funeral Planning Services "The Funeral Service Customer Care Award for 2011". It is an honour and a privalage to have received such an award

    Many thanks Robert Christine and Michael

  • I would like to say to you all (you are the best) how you look after peoples departed loved ones, all the tender loving care you give is just so wonderful and exquisite, we love you all. Ugarte family

  • Once agian I would like to express my most sincere thanks for the way everything was carried out and the caring attitude of you and your staff.

    Yours sincerely John Fawley

  • Once again I would like to express my most sincere thanks for the way everything was carried out and for the caring attitude of you and your staff.

    Yours sincerely

    John

  • Thank you and your team for the wonderful care and attention shown to David, Alex and I at this very difficult time. I really appreciate the way you organised Davids funeral and memorial- your attention to every detail made the process easier to bare, you treated Alex and all my family as friends and we can never thank you enough. Alex and I are working on building our lives without David- it's very slow but knowing he was treated with respect and dignity is very comforting. With love Chris and Alex.

  • Thank you for your very efficient funeral arrangements and your kindness at this sad time, thank you also for the memento you sent, i wondered if you could send one for my brother. Thanking you again. Yours sincerely Margaret Fox.

  • Thank you very much for the kindness, care & consideration that was shown to the family of the late Muriel Brain OBE. Mum was of course very special to us and we all felt comfortable and at ease entrusting her to your care. The funeral arrangements were dealt with impeccably which enabled the family to concentrate on the day and to think about mum without any addred stress. We would like to express special thanks to Bob for his support and the tender way he dealt with mums ashes, the ceremony in the cemetery when placing the ashes was truly beautiful and thoughtful. Yours sincerely Gill Fearnley & Family

  • To everyone involved in our dear mum's funeral, Christine, Bob & staff. From the family of the late Alma Poole, our loss is great and very very sad, but your care during this time was very much appreciated. From all the family.

  • To everyone involved in our dear mum's funeral, (Christine, Bob & Staff). From the family of the late Alma Poole, our loss is great and very very sad, but your care during this time was very much appreciated. From all the family.

  • Thank you for everything you did for me and my family Ernest Constantine, Love from Barbara, Sandra, June & all.

  • Dear Bob, Christine & staff

    I would like to thank you on behalf of the family for takeing care of uncle Nevile's funeral, we were dealt with on a kind comforting & compassion manner by yourself & staff, which made  uncle Nevilles death easier to accept although he had reached a "Ripe old age" Many thanks Sandra

  • Thanks to Chris and the staff at R. J. Burgess for their kindness. From Susan, Neil & family

  • Robert and all your staff, we wanted to say a very big thank you to you all for the sensitive and careing way in which you handled preperations for and then the funeral of our mother and nan Muriel Wadsworth your service can only be desribed as excellent and so supportive at a very difficult, sad time for us all, specail thanks to Robert too for his sensitivity through out including the interment of Muriel ashes. With our thanks on behalf of the whole family, Sue and Graham.

  • To all at Burgess funeral Directors

    Many thanks for the respect & care you showed to our mother Bella jones and the thoughtfulness and care to ourselve's during this difficult time. From Alec & Madge & family.

  • To Christine & staff

    Thank you for your support with the loss of our father Roy Burton, without your comforting help and guidence we would not have had such a lovely farewell for him. Many thanks from Janis, Richard, Bob, Roy, Christopher, Philip and rest of the family xxx.

  • Thank you for your congeniality and the heartfelt words and rhyme thank you for your compassion during our recent sad time thank you for all the arrangments that eased the pain inside thank you Robert and all your staff for you Jortitude, at Caroline's ebbed tide. Thank you kind regards Lee jordan & family.

  • To R. J. Burgess and staff

    We the Oliver family would like to thank you so much for all your help, care and compassion at this sad time, you've been so kind and thoughtful, it's difficult to say how much appreciation this "Thank you" brings this way, thanks again everyone, all our love Maureen & Peter, Mark & Denise, Tracey & Trevor and all our families (thank you so much).

     

  • Family and friends of Dorothy (Dolly) Boardman would like to thank you al for effiecient funeral arrangements,special thanks to Christine for the care and attention given to mum. Love from John and Sandra Boardman.

  • The family of the late Mary Potter would like to thank you for the excellent & very caring funeral arrangements, it was much appreciated at a very difficult time, From Bill, Sue, Anne & Ralph.

  • Thank you all for being so supportive at a very difficult time for us. You provided a very professional service and we want to let you all at R. J. Burgess know just how grateful we are. Thank you with love from Pat. Mathew, Debbie & all the family xxxx

  • Your wonderful support and services have really helped us through the loss of my dear mum. Best wishes Andy, Di, Jenna & Anya Guy xx.

  • Just a quick note to say a very big thank you for all the arrangments for mum's funeral. It was obviousily a very sad occasion for all the family but from the collection from Snydale Nursing Home through to the reception at the Rising Sun, the proceedings were handled with great dignity compassion and efficiency. This is a great testament to your service and particulary to Michael who was superb (please dont tell him I said that about him - I'll never here tha last of it). Our grateful thanks too to Terry and Peter who attended on the day and another gentleman whose name I did not discover. Their care helped us greatly. Once agian, on behalf of all the family, Thank you for everything David Hartill.

  • Many thanks for providing such an efficient and caring service for Auntie Lily on Thursday, you made the whole process so easy and made the day run smoothly. It's never an easy day but your kindness and consideration were very much appreciated. Thenkyou again, Ann & all of lilians family.

  • Thank you for all the help and support you have given to us following the death of our mother, Joan Lovell. The compassion shown and professionalism, special thank you to Michael in helping us with the funeral arrangements particluary the music played at the crematorium, also to Christine for not only ensurig that mum lookes her best but so peaceful, also like the mum we knew. At a time like this, it helped to know we could count on you to make sure that everything went as planned. With all our gratitude from Janet, Martin, Chris, Susan, michael & Steven. PS we are also very grateful to you for ensuring that mum was layed to rest before Martin & Susan returned to Canada.

  • I would  like to thank you personally & on belhalf of the family for the very professional and sensitive service which you provided at a most difficult time. I am most grateful for all the arrangements which were very efficiently carried out in a timely manner. Yours sincerely Stephen Brammah

  • On behalf of my Aunt Renee i would like to say thankyou for all your help and kind advice during the sad loss of Uncle Clarry, and would just like to say that you did him proud

  • I would like to thank you personally and on behalf of the family for the very professional and sensitive service which you provided at a most difficult time. I am most grateful for all the arrangements which were very efficiently carried out in a timely manner.