Stockman & Loram The Family Run Funeral Service - Paignton

01/10/2025

Celebration of Life 🌿
This arrangement was created to honour a beautiful life, filled with fresh blooms — dahlias, agapanthus, delphiniums, clematis, dianthus, eucalyptus.

The colours were lovingly chosen by the family, reflecting joy, love, and cherished memories. A natural and uplifting tribute to celebrate a life well lived. 🌿

As always, I was honoured to work alongside the wonderful team at StockmanStockman & Loram The Family Run Funeral Service - PaigntonebrationOfLife

22/07/2025

Today our team were pleased to help Rev Nathan Kiyaga at Christ Church & St Paul's Together In Paignton St Paul’s Church to move the very heavy Font. Logistically this was somewhat challenging but we managed to relocate it successfully, after a fair amount of heavy lifting and some nifty use of some levers!

We now offer Font relocations in addition to bespoke funeral arrangements!

The Font at St Paul’s is a beautiful piece of marble, and has been in the church for a long time - our very own Robert Hunt was christened in it back in the day!

20/04/2025

If you are in the process of arranging a funeral, there are some questions you should ask:

Where will your loved rest?
Are the funeral directors accredited by SAIF?
Do they have their own premises,staff and vehicles?
What services do they provide ‘in house’?

There’s been a sharp increase in online only companies popping up, who operate by relying entirely on 3rd parties but still charge families “professional fees”. Some of these facades appear to be local through clever marketing techniques but operate from residential addresses.

There are so many things involved with providing excellent funeral arrangements, from the staff, specialist vehicles, industry standard mortuary and chapel of rest equipment and facilities to providing a wide range of products and memorial items, coffin styles, media systems, printing and stationary, IT and other online customer services.

Remember, not all funeral directors are the same. We always welcome you to come and see our facilities and discuss how we can offer the very best arrangements with complete control over the important services - we don’t rely on others to look after the deceased or provide the vehicles and staff.

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08/03/2025

International Women’s Day celebrates the role of women in all walks of life.

Historically a male dominated industry, we are very proud to have three amazing women in our funeral directing team - Vanessa Loram, Elaine Harrison and Kim Palmer - who all look after local families throughout the funeral arrangements and on the day itself.

We also have two amazing administrators in Ellen and Cat who make sure things run smoothly with all administrative matters, accounts and donation processing.

19/02/2025

Direct Cremation? Don't use a national company...

There are many national companies that provide this type of service, many of which come down from 'up country' in a commercial van and collect multiple deceased persons on mass, as it makes them more money.

We don't agree with this practice, as it is not only undignified but also causes deceased to be left in Hospital mortuaries for days, sometimes weeks, unbeknown to their loved ones.

At Stockman & Loram, our Direct Cremation option still benefits from the same care and respect that we are renowned for. We look after the deceased in our local Chapels of Rest in Brixham and Paignton and the cremation takes place at a local Crematorium, rather than being taken anywhere in the country.

You can find out more about Direct Cremation, and how to take out a pre paid Direct Cremation funeral plan by contacting one of our offices or by e-mailing: info@stockmanandloram.co.uk

09/11/2024

07/11/2024

A beautiful combination of our unvarnished pine coffin with exquisite flowers from for a much loved lady recently. The unvarnished rustic style coffin with wooden handles created a much softer atmosphere as the family gathered to share memories and reflect on a very long life, well lived.

26/08/2024

As a sponsor (as well as Seb & Dom playing) of Babbacombe Cricket Club we are sharing their crowdfunding page to raise funds for a new roof on the pavilion, which is the hub of the club both in terms of cricket and also revenue from the bar etc.

Any support is greatly appreciated, the club have 3 senior teams and a thriving junior cricket section, and are a real focal point of the community.

Please feel free to share the crowdfunding page far and wide. Thank you

The club needs a new roof: without a roof we have no pavilion; without a pavilion we have no income; without an income we have no club.

17/08/2024

It’s always nice to have a brief from families - but in this instance the brief was all pre planned by the lady that had passed away. She wanted a willow coffin with a simple but beautiful Ivy and Daisy garland. She’d also chosen her music, hymns, bible readings and even written out a list of thank-yous to her family and friends.

The service took place in our private Service Chapel, so there was no time pressure unlike at the Crematorium. The garland was provided by the very talented who is one of the amazing local florists we work with regularly. The coffin is handcrafted by

07/06/2024

We had a fantastic time yesterday evening Go-Karting in the Rowcroft Hospice Le Mans style race. It was great fun and hopefully everyone enjoyed it whilst raising some money for the amazing team at Rowcroft. Pictured here on the podium are Craig Parker, Kim Palmer, Seb Loram, Elaine Harrison and guest driver Flower La Vita

06/03/2024

Our new signage is in place at our Preston Chapel of Rest - Thanks to the excellent Abbey Signs, Devon

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