12/12/2025
🌟 Jonathan Reeve, Celebrant 🌟
You may or may not have seen or heard along the grapevine that our lovely Jonathan Reeve, in 2026, is taking up an exciting opportunity to train to become an Orthodox Priest.
Jonathan has been involved with the Orthodox Church for some time and so to be given this opportunity is one he cannot miss, rightly so we here at Hattersley’s are extremely excited for him to move into this new chapter of his life, and we do wish him the best.
This being said, we would like to just clarify a couple of points as to what this means for him and the people of Chesterfield, he WILL have some availability to take services moving forward and the services he takes will have a slight restriction how they happen but he can still actively officiate religious and non-religious services Tuesday-Thursday.
He is unable to conduct just a committal service at the Crematorium, but he CAN still officiate a FULL Funeral Service, religious or non-religious, at a private chapel, whether that be here at our Private Chapel in Brampton or at other local chapels across Chesterfield. There would then be two options should the choice for the funeral be cremation.
1st option: Jonathan officiates all the Funeral Service and Committal at Hattersley’s Service Chapel or other private chapel (this can be religious or non-religious), and we will take the person to the Crematorium privately with no attendance.
2nd Option: Jonathan officiates much of the service at our chapel and he will then have someone else conduct the committal at the Crematorium or if you wished you can go to the Crematorium without a celebrant present and listen to music before exiting the Chapel. (This can be religious or non-religious)
He can officiate graveside services and graveside committals.
Whilst his presence will no longer be seen actively at the Crematorium, it is a pleasure and privilege to know he can still offer his religious or non-religious services to the people of Chesterfield in a slightly different manner and we would be happy to continue to have him take services here at B. Hattersley & Sons.
Should you have any questions or queries regarding this then please do not hesitate to contact us on 01246 232 820.
