Lodge News
June 17th, 2014
Lodge Brothers Cobham Branch celebrated Fathers’ Day this weekend with a small window display featuring a poem for all those who have recently lost a father. We hope that the words in the poem helped bring positive thoughts at what is a difficult time for some.
If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
We would walk right up to Heaven
And bring you back again
No Farewell words were spoken
No time...
June 16th, 2014
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Christ Church in Ottershaw, the Reverend Sandra Faccini organised for a time capsule to be buried in the church grounds containing several items of interest from life as it is now.
Adults and children were involved and a special service was held to dedicate the capsule and it’s contents.
Ken Ash, Branch Arranger at Lodge Brothers Addlestone asked Sandra if there was anything th...
June 12th, 2014
St Michael’s School in Ashford held their annual ‘Dad’s Football Tournament’ last Saturday and this year the teams had something to battle for!
A magnificent trophy and winners and runners-up medals were provided by Lodge Brothers, the local family-run funeral directors. Eight teams battled for over four hours on a warm afternoon, before a team made up of school teachers defeated one of the dad’s teams in ...
June 11th, 2014
Chris Lodge and Paul Bye joined mayors, ministers and other funeral directors for a service to celebrate 75 years of Mortlake Crematorium on 3rd June 2014.
The crematorium, which opened in 1939, has seen 180,000 cremations take place, including that of Margaret Thatcher, who died in April last year.
Other well-known figures to have been cremated at Mortlake Crematorium include comedian Tommy Cooper, actor Michael Red...
June 10th, 2014
When Reverend Rosy Barrie, vicar of St Martin’s Church, West Drayton, approached our Yiewsley branch for assistance with their Summer Fete, Funeral Arranger Janet Colton was keen to help. The main attraction of the fete was a Mobile Farm – small, accessible pens containing, Shetland Ponies, Goats, Sheep, Rabbits, Chickens among many others; a feature that proved particularly popular with children. We were happy t...
