Burial, cremation and memorial services from a family that has answered the phone at every hour since 1961. Plain prices, no packages, and a garden to sit in.
The garden, from the side door. Open to any family in our care.
Call us. Whatever the hour, a person from this house answers, not a service. We'll ask a few questions, tell you exactly what happens next, and come to you.
Day or night, every day of the year. One of us picks up, usually Margaret or Daniel. There is nothing you need to have ready, and no question is too small.
(555) 555-0118Within about an hour, anywhere in the county. We bring the person who has died into our care gently, from a home, a hospital or a hospice, and we handle everything that has to happen at the door.
The death certificate, the permits, the notices to the pension office and the bank, the obituary if you'd like one. You will sign a few things. We do the rest, and we tell you when it's done.
If they died at home under hospice care, call the hospice nurse first, then us. If it was unexpected, call emergency services first; we take over once the doctor has signed. If you're not sure, call us anyway and we'll tell you.
Every family gets the same care and the same straight answers. Nothing here is a package you have to buy whole. You choose only what you want, and we'll show you the total before you decide.
A funeral service here, at a place of worship, or at the graveside, followed by burial in the cemetery you choose. We coordinate with the cemetery, the clergy or celebrant, and the newspaper so you don't have to.
Most families spend between $6,800 and $11,500, including the casket. The cemetery's own fees are separate, and we'll tell you what they are before anything is decided.
Direct cremation with no service, or cremation with a viewing or memorial before or after. The ashes come back to you within a week, in a simple container or an urn you choose.
Direct cremation is $2,150, all in. With a service, most families spend between $3,400 and $6,200.
A gathering without the body present, whenever the family is ready, sometimes months later. Music, photographs, an open microphone, a long table of food: whatever fits the person, and nothing that doesn't.
From $1,900 for a service in our reception room, including staff, setup and the garden for the afternoon. Elsewhere, we'll quote it plainly once we've seen the place.
Most funeral homes will hand you a price list if you ask. We'd rather you didn't have to ask. What follows is the list we work from, and it is the same for everyone who walks in.
You may choose only the items you want. You never have to buy a package, and nothing is added without your say-so.
The full itemized list is yours before you commit to anything: in person, over the phone, or by email. We do not add a charge you have not seen in writing.Effective 1 January 2026
Cemetery fees, clergy or celebrant, flowers, obituary notices and certified copies of the death certificate are paid at cost, with no markup, and listed separately on your statement.
About a third of the families we serve have already met us. Pre-planning is a conversation, usually an hour, sometimes with a cup of tea, about what you want and what you don't. We write it down, keep a copy, give you a copy, and it's done.
Walter and June Ashby opened Repose in 1961 in the craftsman house at 41 Linden Road, and lived upstairs for the first eleven years. Their daughter Margaret came home to run it in 1994. Her son Daniel joined in 2015, after nine years as a hospice nurse.
We're small on purpose. There are four of us, two directors and two people you'll meet at the door, and everyone who works here has sat with a family. We are not part of a group, and we don't plan to be.
Still answers the night line herself, three nights a week.
Will sit with you as long as it takes, and remembers how you take your coffee.
A grief group led by Ruth Ellery, a licensed counselor who has run it since 2017. Half past six until eight in the evening. There's no sign-up and no fee, and you don't have to have used us. Come once, or come for a year. Some people just sit.
Most months are open to anyone. A few are set aside for a particular kind of loss, and those are marked.
If you'd like to talk to someone between meetings, write to support@repose.example and Ruth will call you within a day. We also keep a short list of counselors and books we trust; ask any of us for it.
Come in by the side door; it's unlocked from six. Tea and coffee are on the sideboard.
We've been on Linden Road since 1961. The house is the one with the porch and the copper beech. Come in at the front, or by the side door if you'd rather not use the steps.
A lot behind the house with 28 spaces, entered from Beech Lane. Two accessible spaces by the side door. Street parking on Linden Road is free and unlimited.
Level entry at the side door, a lift to the arrangement room upstairs, an accessible restroom on the ground floor, and a hearing loop in the chapel. Seating can be rearranged for wheelchairs anywhere.
Behind the house, open any hour we are. A gravel path that loops, boxwood, a bench under the beech. Families use it before and after services, and some come back on their own.