Meet the Team

The major strength of H L Hawes & Son Ltd Funeral Directors, The Abbey Independent Funeral Directors Ltd and
Peter Musgrave Funeral Directors is its employees.

Many of our staff have been with us for a good number of years, in fact, they aggregate more than 150 years of service with our Company.

This level of staff retention allows us to provide a professional caring service to returning families who will have met our staff on previous occasions.

Our company puts a great emphasis on staff training.

We have four members of staff who hold the Diploma in Funeral Directing (Dip FD), one qualified embalmer (MBIE), one qualified Assessor for The Independent Funeral Directors College, and one who holds the Management NVQ Level 3 qualification.

All our funeral staff has successfully completed Health & Safety courses and many have received First Aid training.

Also, H L Hawes & Son Funeral Directors can be easily identified as you will usually see the same personnel on each service we conduct and our funeral vehicles with the HLH registration plate.

Our staff are:

Managing Director:  Alun Tucker Dip FD., F.SAIF 
Personal Assistant to Managing Director:  Stephanie Butler Dip FD   (Responsible for company websites)   
Company Secretary:  Robert Andrews MA, ACIB, FCIE       
General Manager:  Karl Partridge Dip FD, MBIE                  
Administration Manager:  Tania Stone  (NVQ Level 3 Business Management)      
                         

Funeral Directors: 

Richard Hampton                   H L Hawes & Son Ltd Funeral Directors & Peter Musgrave Funeral Directors
Nicola Jarmaine Dip FD        The Abbey Independent Funeral Directors Ltd, Waltham Abbey
 

Assistant Funeral Directors:

Dennis Gillett                         
Marc Wright                             
William Gill                            
John Straker                             
Brett Mann                              Outstanding Young Person Award Finalist in The Thames Gateway Business Awards 2009

Funeral Arrangers:

Pauline Richardson - North Chingford                                  
Theresa Crane - Peter Musgrave F.D's, Leytonstone         
Linda Graham - Peter Musgrave F.D's, Leytonstone           
Inga Tizzard 
                                                                              

"Meeting the needs of bereaved families"

Footnote:

Dip FD stands for Diploma in Funeral Directing awarded by The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD).

F.SAIF stands for Fellow of The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF).

MBIE stands for member of The British Institute of Embalmers . (Qualified embalmer).