Sometimes it helps to be able to put a name to a face especially if you only get to speak to us on the phone.
| Barry & Carole (Mum and Dad) Barry & Carole founded Dignity in 1992. Sadly Carole has Alzheimer’s disease but Barry still takes an active part in the day to day running of the Service. They currently have a cat called Molly having sadly lost four of their other pets in recent times. Best known was their three legged cat, Timothy "3", who was known for his antics and well loved by all. |
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| Kevin Kevin is Barry & Carole’s son. He began working at Dignity Pet Crematorium in 2001 and can be found helping out pretty much everywhere seeing clients, in the office answering the phone, on the engraving machine, looking after the cremations or driving one of the Pet Hearses. Kevin, his wife Estelle and sons South & Lincoln, have 1 cat (Louis) and a Greek Rescue dog called Brax. Sadly during 2007/8 they lost 4 pets: Giro, Mikey, Kenny & Lulu. |
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| Debbie Debbie is Barry & Carole’s daughter. She started working at Dignity in 1999. She is involved in the day to day running of the office. Debbie and family have a cat called Sox. |
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| Louise Louise is Debbie’s eldest daughter. Louise works at Dignity full time and is office manager. Louise works in the office and is responsible for Dignity’s accounts. She has two dogs, Shadow & Joey. |
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| Hayley Hayley is Debbie’s middle daughter. She helps in the office answering the telephones and seeing customers as well as homing pet’s ashes into their chosen caskets. Hayley and Debbie have a cat called Sox. |
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| Sharon Sharon has known the Spurgeon family for over 30 years! She helps in the office, looking after clients & homing pets’ ashes as well as driving the Pet Hearse a couple of days a week. Sharon has a dog Teddy and teaches horse riding locally. |
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| David David is married to Sharon (who also works at Dignity!) and after helping on a Saturday with the driving has now joined us on a full time basis. David helps both in the office and drives one of the pet hearses. |
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| Michelle Michelle helps at the crematorium in the office, looking after clients & homing pet’s ashes in the woodland area. Michelle also helps Debbie with the Book Keeping. She has two cats, Reggie and Bud. |
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| Sue Sue joined Dignity in August 2004. She has been involved in both horse and small animal rescue for many years. Sue looks after clients both in person at Dignity and over the telephone as well as homing pet’s ashes into our caskets. Sue currently has 3 ponies and 3 horses (she shares two with her daughter!). |
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| Jaime Jaime works full time at Dignity looking after the individual cremations and also helping with the driving. He joined Dignity in 2005 and lives with his family locally. He is originally from Portugal although he now calls England home! |
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| Paul Paul has worked locally for several years. He now helps us two or three times a week by collecting pets in the Hearse. He has a rescue dog called Sam. |
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| Samuel Samuel also started in August and will be helping us by driving one of the pet hearses on a part time basis. He has lived and worked in the area all his life. |
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