Category: Special funerals

Here at our funeral home, Grace Mary House, we are able to offer our families a private and intimate chapel for a funeral service. Many families choose for the funeral service to be a small private affair therefore our facilities here at Daniel Ross Funerals have proved invaluable as we are the only funeral directors able to offer a chapel in Sutton Coldfield to such high standards.

Our Chapel has received both blessing and dedication for all religions and can comfortably seat up to 16 mourners or family members. In addition, there is ample room for the coffin to rest within the Chapel alongside the lectern which is the stand from which the officiating minister/priest/funeral celebrant would take the funeral service from.

Our Chapel has been also used to take non religious services, as we are able to personalise the Chapel with religious symbols for each denomination or with more personal items such as photographs or family pictures. Our Chapel also has the facility to have CD music played and/or piped music to sing hymns to. Should a family prefer to have a live organist or soloist at the funeral service, this also can be arranged.

Our flexibility and our accommodating approach guide our families and assist them to finding a truly personal way to say goodbye to their loved one. At Daniel Ross Funerals, we are proud to help our families create a truly personal and intimate funeral service.

For those who have previously served, Daniel Ross Funerals in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, is proud to offer a military funeral service that reflects the right amount of military input that the family would like, ranging from simply draping the coffin with a suitable flag , right through to a uniformed chaplain, relevant flag on the altar, regimental prayers, Last Post and the deceased’s medals displayed on the coffin. Military funeral music can also be played, eg a Regimental March etc.  Ex-members of the Royal Navy often have a version of “For those in peril on the sea” sung as a hymn, adapted for use at funerals by a local Navy Training Corps Chaplain who works closely with us in Sutton Coldfield.

At a Military Funeral, for members of the  Royal Navy – the White Ensign  is used,

At a Military Funeral, for the army the Union Flag is generally used,

At a Military Funeral, for the Royal Air Force the RAF standard,

For folk who have served in the Merchant Navy then the Red Ensign is used.

The British Legion is normally available to send volunteer members as a Guard of Honour, along with a standard bearer who will normally “dip” for Last Post. The Commemoration (We shall grow not old…”) can also be recited by one of their members or the Chaplain.  For those not in the British Legion a nominal donation should be made to the Branch from which the members attending are associated.  These are things we can easily arrange through our local contacts with the various ex-servicemen’s association, eg The British Legion, Normandy Veterans Association, National Ex Services Association, Royal Naval Association and the Royal Air Force Association.

Generally these forms of services apply to ex-serviceman from the Second World War, although not exclusively, and it is recognised that due to the experiences they had during those dark times there are some who do not want any military style input. But for the greater majority their families are keen to honour the memory of what their loved one did for King and Country and therefore include a degree of military input.

Orders of Service can also have a military feel about them with Regimental or Service badges and flags/colours/ensigns used. Daniel Ross Funerals in Sutton Coldfield has previously created very unique and personal Orders of Service for a military funeral in Sutton Coldfield.

Not all family want a “religious style” service and so we also offer a non-religious form of service that again can contain any amount of military style input that the family request.

Although the funeral service is a farewell to the deceased, it is also, importantly, for the families as well and having a military style feel to it, where appropriate, so often gives great satisfaction to families and friends as the memory of their loved one is honoured in this way.

At Daniel Ross Funerals, we would be honoured to serve and your family and to deliver a personal military funeral in Sutton Coldfield.