G E Gamble & Sons

There are many ways in which a funeral service can be personalised and many reasons for wanting to do so. If people have spent their lives supporting a particular football team, or played in a band or group, it can be nice to include a reference to this during the day. The country of someone's birth or membership of a club or society can also be represented at the funeral.

Following a death, there is a legal requirement for the death to be registered. This has to be done within 5 days and generally by a relative of the deceased, someone present at the death, or the person with the responsibility of arranging and paying for the funeral.

The doctor who attends the deceased will complete a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death that needs to be collected and taken to the registrars, whereupon registering, you will be issued with a Green Form and your Death Certificates.The choice on which funeral director to use is entirely that of the family.

Flowers may well be the last gift you are able to buy for someone. They add colour and life to a funeral. They can help to decorate the coffin and be placed in a grave as part of a burial service. Below is just a small selection of our standard range of floral tributes but almost anything is possible.

Placing a notice into a local or national newspaper is the most traditional way of informing people of the date and time of a funeral, as well as giving family, friends and acquaintances the chance to say how they feel about losing someone special to them.

In general a newspaper will not accept a main notice without first confirming the funeral details, however, in most case a family will be quite happy to entrust the placing of the notice to their chosen Funeral Director.An obituary, or notice of death, can include whatever information a family wishes to give, but ordinarily would include the date, time and location of a funeral service.