W A Deacon Funeral Services

21/10/2025

19/09/2025

On a beautiful day like today, we had a lovely rainbow themed funeral for a much loved lady. The family chose a rainbow, butterfly and bird coffin and the florist created this very special floral tribute 🌈🌈🌈

Paul Deacon
David Deacon

27/08/2025

Scatter tubes are a great choice for the ashes of your loved ones. They can be used to keep ashes at home or can be used for scattering in a dignified manner. They are available in many designs and 4 different sizes - from large to mini. Here are some of our new designs.

14/08/2025

The amount of adverts for direct cremations on tv is increasing all the time and we know from speaking to many of you that the common belief is that if you require a direct cremation you HAVE to use one of these online companies.

However it’s important to note that a direct cremation is just another choice that is offered to a bereaved family. One of many different choices that your local family Funeral Director can arrange for you.

The main choices are:

Burial or cremation
Religious, civil or humanist
Church service or crematorium
Full service, simple service or no service

A Direct Cremation is simply a cremation without a service. We will look after your loved one in exactly the same way as any other service, providing the same care, with the only exception being that there will be no service and no attendance. People choose this option for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it was the wish of the deceased themselves.

For those families that feel they can’t let their loved one go to the crematorium alone, we also offer an Attended Direct Cremation. This means that up to 8 mourners can attend and sit in the chapel for 10 minutes with music playing.

Please call for more information:
01787 248282

Paul Deacon
David Deacon

09/06/2025

We have a vacancy for a casual
driver/bearer to join our team.
Would suit an active retired person.
Please call on 01787 248282

02/06/2025

Times are hard for this poor old vagrant, David Deacon! 😂

Seriously, It was a tudor fête, part of the Lavenham church T500 celebrations - 500 years since the completion of the tower, the last part of the fine church 🙂
Paul Deacon
Lavenham Church

02/04/2025

We have to take a moment to wish David a very happy birthday! Still busy and active and enjoying life 🎉🥳🎉

David Deacon
Paul Deacon

25/03/2025

We recently carried out the funeral of Wildlife Artist, Peter Partington. His particular love was birds and his fellow artists decorated his coffin with watercolour paintings of a variety of birds and spring flowers. We have also uploaded a video of the coffin going into church and you will hear the accompaniment of birds as we do so.

Thanks to lead artist Amie Haslen, Meggan and colleagues

Thanks to Simon Mackinder for the video recording

This is another example of how a funeral can be tailored to a families specific wishes.

Thomas W Lower
Neil Norman
Mark Johnson
Derek Nice

12/03/2025

We always ensure we are dressed smart and professional at all times, but there are times when a black jacket and striped trousers can be a bit daunting. So we have recently updated the team’s uniform to add more informal jackets.
Thanks to Top Marques Uniform Solutions

11/03/2025

We are always so grateful when families take the time to write us a note of thanks at such a difficult time in their lives. We have helped some wonderful people recently, all with different types of funerals. This was a lovely card from one of those families 🙏
Fleur De Lys Florist