Marsden House Funeral Directors
Offering the highest standard of caring professionalism.
At Marsden House we believe our profession is a 'calling', offering us the privilege of supporting family and friends at a time of death with dignity and understanding.
We are proud to have been elected to membership of the international organisation Selected Independent Funeral Homes - an invitation extended only to those firms who have achieved the highest standards of service and integrity.
We are also members of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand Inc (FDANZ) - your guarantee of professional integrity, skill, compassion and service.
Professional Service
We will advise you what to do when someone dies. From the moment of death we are able to help you make decisions and be entrusted with all the necessary arrangements. If death occurs at a hospital or rest home call us for assistance and advice.
Sometimes, for various reasons, a doctor is unable to determine the cause of death and the Coroner needs to establish the cause of death. In these cases the Police act as the Coroner's Agents and employ a funeral director to transport the deceased to a public mortuary. It is still, however the family's right and responsibility to contact their chosen funeral director to attend to all the other arrangements.
We will help you with these responsibilities.
We offer personalised individual care to suit your needs and can help with: -
- planning an appropriate funeral service at your chosen time and venue including providing a casket, a hearse, suitable premises and appropriate staff.
- Liaising with clergy, celebrant, cemetery or crematorium officials.
- Organising the music and musician.
- Inserting notices in local, national and international newspapers.
- Arranging flowers and other tributes.
- Organising purchase of a cemetery plot and interment
- Facilitating the purchase of a headstone or appropriate memorials.
- Collating official forms from the doctor or coroner.
- Filing of death registration forms.
We Offer Services Unique to Nelson
We offer a variety of flexible services, options and facilities to ease the family's time of grieving.
- fully trained staff with NZQA nationally recognised qualifications.
- Four generations of family involvement.
- A beautiful historical building situated in central Nelson.
- A specialist dressing room where families may be involved in preparing their loved one for the funeral service and committal.
-Private rooms where family and friends may pay their last respects to the deceased.
- At-home care as an option for those who want their loved one at home with them until the funeral.
- A comprehensive range of caskets, urns and memorial options. Customised caskets are also available.
- A lounge for after-funeral functions and a catering service to your requirements.
- A Memorial Book as a record of the service and the friends attending
- Colour photocopying services for service sheets.
- A Bereavement Support Programme - to extend and prolong the care.
- An annual Service of Remembrance for those who have died during the years.
- An avenue of memorial trees with a yearly planting ceremony.
- Pre-arranged and prepaid funerals to ensure your wishes are clear and complete.
- Nelson's locally owned funeral service.
Our Chapel has a seating capacity of 160 plus closed circuit television operating to the refreshment lounge for additional mourners.
| Chapel: |
Yes |
| Capacity: |
160 |
| Catering: |
Yes |
| Women funeral directors: |
Yes |
| Qualified funeral directors: |
Yes |
| Counselling Referral service: |
Yes |