Ken Newcombe Funeral Directors Holmbush St Austell

22/11/2025

💙 Last chance to apply! 💙
(closing date 28/11). PLEASE SHARE.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 FULL-TIME POSITION 🌟🌟🌟🌟

We are looking for a compassionate and reliable individual to join our team as a Funeral Service Operative (Level One). This role offers the opportunity to support families during one of life’s most sensitive moments, playing a key part in delivering respectful and meaningful services that genuinely make a difference.

Being a Funeral Service Operative means playing a central part in one of life’s most significant moments. You’re often the first person a grieving family meets, and your presence can shape how they remember the most difficult of days. This role calls for empathy, confidence, and attention to detail. You are entrusted with the role of taking care of our deceased and ensuring our families' wishes can be met. You conduct yourself with respect & dignity, understanding the privilege it is to undertake the work you do.

As a Funeral Service Operative, you will:
💙 Provide dignified and professional care for the deceased
💙 Support Funeral Directors in delivering seamless service and ceremonial work
💙 Drive and operate specialist vehicles (including hearses, limousines and private ambulances)
💙 Maintaining high standards of presentation for vehicles and facilities, and ensuring they are well-maintained
💙 Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota (including nights/weekends) to support families - providing out-of-hours support, including dignified collection and transfer of the deceased into care.
💙 Bring the deceased into our care from the place of death — including private homes, hospitals, hospices, or public spaces — under varying circumstances
💙 Prepare the deceased (washing, dressing, presentation) in accordance with family, religious, or cultural wishes
💙 Support with chapel visits and interactions with families in a calm and respectful manner
💙 Carry out all duties involving the deceased with the utmost care and professionalism

To view the full job description and to apply:-
https://dignity.kallidusrecruit.com/VacancyInformation.aspx?VId=3266

21/11/2025

As another week comes to a close, our hearts are with the families we’ve had the privilege of caring for. Thank you for trusting us during such a difficult and emotional time. It’s an honour to walk beside you and to care for your loved ones with dignity and compassion 💙

We’re here for you—day or night. So please don’t hesitate to call us on 01726 75869.

Our on call team this weekend:-
Helen, Trevor, Stephen, Jon, Stuart & Mark

Take care of yourselves & each other 🧡

20/11/2025

The harder we love
Means the harder we grieve
The harder it is
To go on when they leave

The harder to sleep
And the harder to wake
To know they’re not here
With each breath that we take

It’s hard to look forward
And hard to look back
Stuck in the middle,
Imprisoned and trapped

Where the harder the darkness
The harsher the light,
The harsher this world
That keeps spinning with life

But when that world’s feeling
So painful and hard
And you can’t imagine
Escaping the dark

It might help a little
To know it’s because
The harder we grieve
Means the harder we loved

******
Becky Hemsley 2023
Poignant artwork by Xuan Loc Xuan

19/11/2025

EILEEN CRAGO

Passed away unexpectedly at her home in St Austell on 11th November 2025, aged 85 years.

Beloved wife to Terence(deceased), much loved mum to Terence and Sean, mum-in-law to Ally and Ursula, adored gran to 9 grandchildren and great-granny to 4 great grandchildren.

Eileen will be greatly missed and lovingly remembered by her family and friends.

Funeral service to be held at Glynn Valley Crematorium, Bodmin on Tuesday 2nd December 2025 at 1.30pm.

In memory of Eileen, please wear a splash of red.

Family flowers only. Donations, if desired, to be split between Cornwall Air Ambulance and Fowey Lifeboat Station, can be made online via the Funeral Directors website or by retiring collection at the service.

All enquiries to Sam Marston, Funeral Director, Ken Newcombe Funeral Directors, Bucklers Lane, St.Austell, PL25 3JN. Tel: 01726 75869.

https://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/funeral-notices/11-11-2025-eileen-crago/

17/11/2025

Walking with You in Autumn

The air is calm, the colors deep,
and every step stirs what I keep
the laughter tucked in leaves of gold,
the stories that our hearts still hold.

The wind hums low, your voice in tune,
a memory beneath the moon.
Though paths have changed and time moved on,
your love still walks where I have gone.

Each leaf that falls reminds me too,
that nothing lost is ever through.
You’re in the hush, the amber light
my warmth in cold, my peace at night.

So as the season drifts and sighs,
I find you where the beauty lies
not gone, not lost, but softly near,
in every calm the heart can hear.

Ann Marie

15/11/2025

An amazing opportunity for someone looking to join the funeral profession and make a difference. Such a rewarding job 💙 PLEASE SHARE 💙

🌟🌟🌟🌟 FULL-TIME POSITION 🌟🌟🌟🌟

We’re looking for a compassionate and reliable individual to join our team as a Funeral Service Operative (Level One). This role offers the opportunity to support families during one of life’s most sensitive moments, playing a key part in delivering respectful and meaningful services that genuinely make a difference.

Being a Funeral Service Operative means playing a central part in one of life’s most significant moments. You’re often the first person a grieving family meets, and your presence can shape how they remember the most difficult of days. This role calls for empathy, confidence, and attention to detail. You are entrusted with the role of taking care of our deceased and ensuring our families' wishes can be met. You conduct yourself with respect & dignity, understanding the privilege it is to undertake the work you do.

As a Funeral Service Operative, you will:
💙 Provide dignified and professional care for the deceased
💙 Support Funeral Directors in delivering seamless service and ceremonial work
💙 Drive and operate specialist vehicles (including hearses, limousines and private ambulances)
💙 Maintaining high standards of presentation for vehicles and facilities, and ensuring they are well-maintained
💙 Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota (including nights/weekends) to support families - providing out-of-hours support, including dignified collection and transfer of the deceased into care.
💙 Bring the deceased into our care from the place of death — including private homes, hospitals, hospices, or public spaces — under varying circumstances
💙 Prepare the deceased (washing, dressing, presentation) in accordance with family, religious, or cultural wishes
💙 Support with chapel visits and interactions with families in a calm and respectful manner
💙 Carry out all duties involving the deceased with the utmost care and professionalism

To view the full job description and to apply:-
https://dignity.kallidusrecruit.com/VacancyInformation.aspx?VId=3266

14/11/2025

As another week comes to a close, our hearts are with the families we’ve had the privilege of caring for. Thank you for trusting us during such a difficult and emotional time. It’s an honour to walk beside you and to care for your loved ones with dignity and compassion 💛

We’re here for you—day or night. So please don’t hesitate to call us on 01726 75869.

Our on call team this weekend:-
Sam, Stuart, Mark, Jon & Trevor

Take care of yourselves & each other 🧡

13/11/2025

Did I tell you enough how I loved you?
Did I tell you enough to be sure?
Did I tell you enough how the jokes that you told
Made me love you a little bit more?

Did I tell you enough that I missed you
In the moments that we spent apart?
Did I tell you enough how your laugh is imprinted
Right into the walls of my heart?

Did I tell you enough or remind you
That you never stopped making me proud?
‘Cause I know that I said it enough in my head
But I might not have said it aloud

Did I tell you enough you brought sunshine
Every time that you entered a place?
That you brightened the air, with the smile you would wear
That would light up the whole of your face

But now why am I asking these questions?
For I know all the answers already
And asking and wondering over and over
Is draining, exhausting and heavy

It’s tiring me, getting me nowhere
Like a circle I run on the spot
‘Cause I’ve realised the answer to all of these questions
Will always be ‘no, I did not’

For it wouldn’t have mattered how often,
I had spoken aloud all my love
Because even if we’d had forever,
Forever would never

have been quite enough

*****

Becky Hemsley 2025
Beautiful artwork by Karoline Kroiss

10/11/2025

I still speak to you, you know.

I still say, “good morning,” when I wake up and open the curtains. Sometimes I say it aloud and sometimes I whisper it to myself.
But I still say it.

I still say, “hey you,” when I walk past your chair or your photograph. Sometimes I say it with tears in my eyes and sometimes I have a smile on my face.
But I still say it.

I still say, “what should we have for dinner?” when I get home in the evening or when I open the fridge to see what food we have in. Sometimes I say it even though I know what I want to cook, and sometimes I’m hoping you’ll give me some inspiration.
Either way, I still say it.

I still say, “it’s our song!” when it plays on the radio.
I still say, “remember this?” when I find something I’d forgotten about.
I still say, “what do you think?” when I’m trying on an outfit.

I still say, “isn’t it a lovely day?” and “guess who I saw!” and “what shall we watch?” and “goodnight”
and “I miss you.”

And I still say, “I love you.”
Whenever I see your photo. Whenever it’s a lovely day.
Whenever I miss you.
Sometimes I say it aloud, sometimes in a whisper to myself; sometimes with tears in my eyes and sometimes with a smile on my face.

But always, either way,

I love you.

And I still say it.

*****

Becky Hemsley 2024
Stunning artwork by Jolene Lai

09/11/2025