Stuart Foster Funerals
- Arranges funerals
- Independent or family-owned
- Prices published online
Yeovil's trade is mostly independent firms with long local histories, and a family looking for funeral directors in South West England here will find few national names. Six firms are on this page, all in Somerset, and five of them are independent or family owned. Co-op Funeralcare, Yeovil, which includes G H Cook & Son, is the one branch of a national group. Together the six have 260 Google reviews.
Stuart Foster Funerals has offices in Yeovil and Martock and a 24 hour number that is staffed. It is rated 5.0 from 180 reviews, the longest review history on the page. It arranges cremations, burials, direct cremation and help with ashes interments and ashes turned into glass. David C Rivett Family Funeral Directors is at 30 Lyde Road in Yeovil and offers a direct or simple cremation, a simple funeral and a fully bespoke service.
A.J. Wakely & Sons is a family-run firm with a network of offices across Somerset, Dorset and Devon, including Yeovil. The Yeovil office is overseen by director Clive Wakely and managed by Matthew Paterson, who holds an NAFD Diploma in Funeral Directing. Harold F Miles began with a carpenter who made coffins for the local undertaker. It now trades as an independent firm offering cremations, traditional funerals, eco funerals, local direct cremation and funeral plans.
Yeovil sits near the Dorset border, and the firms reflect that. W S Brister & Son Ltd has offices in Sherborne and Sparkford and serves Castle Cary, Wincanton, Bruton and Yeovil. Its own advice is to check the service area for your address before you call. A.J. Wakely & Sons also reaches into Dorset and Devon from its Yeovil office.
Direct cremation is offered by all six. Stuart Foster Funerals, Harold F Miles and W S Brister & Son Ltd also arrange woodland or natural burial, and Stuart Foster Funerals and A.J. Wakely & Sons have chapels of rest or similar facilities listed with their NAFD membership. Harold F Miles has 5.0 from 30 reviews, Co-op Funeralcare, Yeovil 4.7 from 21, A.J. Wakely & Sons 5.0 from 15, David C Rivett Family Funeral Directors 4.6 from 9 and W S Brister & Son Ltd 5.0 from 5. Stuart Foster Funerals and A.J. Wakely & Sons are both members of the NAFD or SAIF.
Stuart Foster Funerals has a 24 hour number that is staffed, and Stuart himself is described as available day and night. W S Brister & Son Ltd and David C Rivett Family Funeral Directors are also available at any hour.
Harold F Miles offers eco funerals. W S Brister & Son Ltd arranges traditional, contemporary and woodland funerals. Stuart Foster Funerals also arranges green or natural burial.
W S Brister & Son Ltd serves Castle Cary, Wincanton, Bruton and Yeovil from offices in Sherborne and Sparkford. Stuart Foster Funerals also has an office in Martock. A.J. Wakely & Sons has offices across Somerset, Dorset and Devon.
David C Rivett Family Funeral Directors offers a direct or simple cremation and a simple funeral. Harold F Miles offers local direct cremation. Co-op Funeralcare, Yeovil arranges either a traditional service or direct cremation.