Sunday, July 13, 2014

The History And Services Of Funeral Home Smithers

By Rosella Campbell


This home was started in the 1950s under the ownership of Emerson family as an evergreen funeral home.Funeral home smithers would later, through a sales deal, change in ownership to A.F.Defrane in the year 1969.. This was to change later in the year 1986 when R. A, Allan Schraderas purchased it.

Change in ownership of the organization characterized its activities in subsequent years. Lowen Group bought the it from Allan Schrader leading to change in the name of the institution. The group would later sell it off to Alderwood after a short duration.

The international corporation took control for only a short duration of one year. In the year 2008, December, the ownership of the funeral home was transferred to Lethbridge, Caring Group Corporation.

Smithers has therefore been in existence for more than six decades within the same location since its establishment. Over this period, it has undergone numerous changes that have significantly transformed it, most notably structural adjustments. Some of these changes include ;construction of more structures leading to attainment of more efficiency in comparison to the days of its establishment. Some of these structures include a garade, a prep room, a chapel and a big selection room and casket. Space has also been increased over the years to cater for increase in demand for services rendered here. Some minor changes that have since been effected are establishment of a office from a building that was previously a three bedroom apartment.

Allan Schrader, despite having sold the organization before, served here until the year 2011 as a manager. In the springs of 2012, he left to join his two sons Lawrence and Darren to work on their Kamloops home. He was succeeded by Paul MacDonald as the manager. Paul had worked in the funeral home claypton in Quesenel for many years.He had been its managing director since his retirement.

The staff is highly qualified with many employees such as Joe Garcia, Christina Norton and the office manager having served for at least twenty five years thus have vast experience in this line of work . These great employees have ensured the organization continues to enjoy proper maintenance of the institution and efficiency as far as service delivery is concerned. This is attributable to their many years of experience in this particular field.

It offers personal and high quality caring services such as provision of prepaid funeral planning, cremation and facilities to all cemeteries.It also offers its services for twenty four hours in a day.It serves vast areas such as Houston, Kitwanga, Smithers, Burns lake.

This organization has proved to be committed towards serving its clients since its inception. It has been serving people at close levels such as the family level and helping them during these challenging moments of their lives. The company remains non discriminative in delivery of its services to the people. It works with people from all denominations and faiths.




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