The Team

We have a dozen staff forming the team.  Meet them below.

The Leadership Team

Damian Dodgson

Managing Director

Barri and Ann's son, Damian, joined the company in July 1994 as a funeral assistant and during the intervening years has progressed to Managing Director.  Damian is keen to embrace new techno...

Barri Dodgson 14.01.1944 - 11.10.2021

Former Managing Director

Originally from an engineering background where, as a Chartered Chemical Engineer he worked as a Project Manager in the Chemical Plant Contracting Industry, Barri entered the funeral vocation on the r...

Ann Dodgson

Company Owner

Ann was brought up in the funeral business, having assisted her father in the family run firm since leaving school. Anticipating that her involvement with the company would be at an end with the retir...

Debbie Dodgson

Office Manager

Damian’s wife Debbie is the firm’s Office Manager with responsibility for all aspects of a busy office, keeping the ever increasing mountain of paperwork under control.  She deals wit...

The Team

Tony Gerrard

Funeral Manager

Emma Eccleston

Funeral Director

Helen Jones

Senior Office Administrator

Kristy Southall

Office Administrator

Anthony Beswick

Senior Funeral Assistant

Pete Riding

Senior Funeral Assistant

Aaron Bruce

Funeral Assistant

Luna

Trainee Morale Officer

Bali

Assistant Morale Officer

Sergio 2008 - 2023

Morale Officer