Duggan's Funeral Service - The Duggan Welch Family

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10/04/2025

St Philip the Apostle

09/13/2025

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08/29/2025

Staff members Gary and Jaz’Min at a recent funeral with former Mayor Brown

02/25/2025

Mission Dolores

10/04/2023

Our Hearse is selected to carry Sen. Feinstein.

08/28/2021

New Hearse

08/21/2021

NFDA received a special communique - see below - from Jay Dalrymple, director of the National Cemetery Scheduling Office, regarding staffing changes at the National Personnel Records Center due to COVID-related safety precautions. These changes are impacting the NPRC’s ability to process requests for veteran discharge documents.
Dear Funeral Directors:

We are asking for your assistance. As you may be aware, the government’s primary repository for military personnel records, the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), is currently in a location identified by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to be in the HIGH level of community transmission rate for COVID-19. Due to the high transmission rate risk, NPRC has taken preventive safety measures and has returned to COVID Phase 0 levels, therefore significantly reducing available services for processing Veteran discharge document requests. This decision negatively impacts our ability to obtain documents to determine eligibility for interment in national cemeteries.

The National Cemetery Administration (NCA) is asking our funeral home partners to encourage families to work directly with funeral homes for assistance with burial in our VA national cemeteries. We will continue to make every attempt to assist Veterans and their families, but if a service member’s records cannot be obtained through any source other than NPRC, we may not be able to make a timely eligibility determination.

We ask you to inform family members of this issue and ask them to search for any additional military documents which may be in their possession. Documents kept by the Veteran may be the only documents available at this time to verify his or her eligibility for burial.

We also encourage you to ask family members to check the following:
Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) or the American Legion. These organizations may have discharge documents on file for members.
Any orders the service member may have received or any documents showing a military service number would be helpful.
County clerk of the county where the service member would have returned from service. The service member may have filed their documents with the county upon discharge from military service.
If the service member has a set of dog tags, please send a clear photograph of them to our agency.

We thank you for your assistance.
Jay Dalrymple
Director, National Cemetery Scheduling Office

03/03/2021

May it please God the decline in Covid-19 deaths continues until there are none.

11/26/2020

I am thankful for our dedicated staff, Bill, Tom, Vaughn, Megan, Lyz, Gary, Jazmin, Brenda, Adam, Tessie, Carlos, Dominic and Mike, for going above and beyond throughout the pandemic. I am thankful for everyone who cooperates in suppressing the virus.

09/02/2020

San Francisco County allows indoor funeral services under the new guidelines. San Mateo, Marin and Alameda Counties do not. Be Safe, use a Funeral Director that cares about your health.

California announced details of a new system and stringent 21-day process that will signal when economy sectors can resume business. The state will update a website where residents can find out what activities are allowed in their county.

06/26/2020

San Francisco Department if Public Health issued an order yesterday requiring all deceased persons be tested for COVID-19 before leaving the City or before preparation for burial or cremation. If you use a San Francisco Funeral Home you will have more prompt service and fewer delays in both testing and preparation.