Pearce Funeral Services unveils planned West Swindon location

Former bank premises in Westlea are to become the new West Swindon location of Pearce Funeral Services.

The company will be the only one in the area able to locally offer dedicated premises.

The firm is led by John Pearce DipFD MBIE, who has more than 33 years of experience in the profession. He and his team pride themselves on offering compassion and kindness as well as all the practical help and expertise clients need in their time of loss.

John Pearce said: “As a family owned and run, independent funeral directors, we are proud to serve the community of Swindon, and all the surrounding areas.

“We are very excited to be able to announce that we are moving to a new premises in West Swindon.

“We are currently converting the former Barclays Bank, Rivenhall Road, Westlea, and will be moving our Groundwell Road branch to West Swindon once the renovations have been completed.

“The new premises will also benefit from its own specified car parking spaces, ensuring that families never have to worry about parking arrangements when visiting.

“We will then be the only funeral director in West Swindon able to locally offer dedicated premises with large, comfortable, arrangement rooms for families to visit and discuss funeral arrangements for their loved ones.”

Business Profile - Pearce Funeral Services

Business Type - Arranging funerals of all kinds with an emphasis on client choice

Established - 2009

Telephone number - 01793 832072

Website - pearcefuneralservices.co.uk

By Barrie Hudson barrie@positive-media.co.uk

The philosophy behind Pearce Funeral Services is a simple one which has nevertheless helped countless clients through some of the saddest periods of their lives.

“We’re a family service and we base ourselves on family values,” said Managing Director John Pearce.

“When somebody’s loved one comes through our door, as far as we’re concerned that family’s loved one is a member of our family for as long as they are with us.

“We treat that loved one as if they were our father, our mother, husband, wife.”

The company’s main base is in Ermin Street, but it has another premises in Groundwell Road and is readying one, pictured middle, in Rivenhall Road, Westlea.

Pearce prides itself on being a help to all, from those who prefer a modest, inexpensive ceremony to those who want something more elaborate.

The company has conducted, for example, funerals for motorcycle enthusiasts involving a sidecar hearse to carry the coffin.

It once arranged, at the behest of loved ones, a funeral procession led by a special type of cement mixer invented by the deceased.

Members of the Pearce team, each specially chosen for their compassion as well as their professional abilities, have worn football shirts and band shirts specified by loved ones.

The company will adapt ceremonies to suit the wishes of the deceased and their loved ones, from hosting them in village halls and garden marquees to arranging ceremonies elsewhere in the country for deceased who had wanted to have their funerals in their original home communities.

History of Pearce Funeral Services

John Pearce, Managing Director

Services, regards being in the industry as a privilege.

It is a sentiment echoed by his wife, Liz, who is Company Administrator.

John began working the industry as a teenager in 1990, and was a professionally-accredited expert many years before establishing the firm in 2009. His sense of public service began in childhood.

“If you go right back to the very beginning,” he said, “I was brought up as a vicar’s son in a family that was very much serving the community. Although it was my father’s ministry, the whole family lived that lifestyle.”

He, alongside Liz and the other members of the tight-knit team take pride in compassionately guiding clients through the worst of times.