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A chapel prepared for a service by SamWill

Our services

Cared for, from the first call onwards.

One telephone call is all that is asked of you. After that, it is ours to carry.

Burials

We look after everything — bringing your loved one into our care, the registration with Home Affairs, the burial order, the grave, the coffin, the order of service, the chapel or the tent, and the cortège on the day.

Cremations

For families who choose it, we take the same care. We handle the authorisation and the crematorium, and we return the ashes to you gently, whenever you feel ready to receive them.

Journeys home

Many families wish to lay someone to rest where they were born. We carry them there ourselves — to the Eastern Cape and across the country — with the paperwork done and the cost agreed with you beforehand.

Services of honour

Where a life calls for it, we arrange the full mark of respect: an honour guard, a band, a formation, and the protocol observed properly. We have carried these services many times.

When you call

What happens next.

  1. 1

    We answer

    Whatever the hour, someone here will pick up. You do not need to have anything prepared.

  2. 2

    We come to them

    We collect your loved one — from home, from the hospital, or from the state mortuary — and bring them into our own care.

  3. 3

    We look at the cover

    If there is a policy with us, we will tell you straight away what it provides. There is no waiting to find out.

  4. 4

    We sit down together

    We meet as a family, talk through what you would like, and give you one written quote with nothing hidden inside it.

  5. 5

    We carry the day

    The documents, the grave or the crematorium, the coffin, the flowers, the programme, the cars — and being beside you through all of it.

A SamWill hearse prepared for a service
A chapel prepared with flowers for a service

Preparing the day

The small things are not small.

The way the aisle is dressed. Whether there is shade for the elderly. Flowers that were her favourites. A programme the grandchildren will keep.

These are the details families remember years afterwards, and we treat them with the same care as everything else.

An order of service printed by SamWill

Whenever you are ready, we are here.

There is no wrong time to telephone, and no question too small to ask.