Recently Lucy Humphris of Humphris Funerals, Banbury’s longest standing family run business and independent Funeral Director, was presented with her Diploma in Funeral Arranging and Administration at a graduation ceremony at Birmingham City University. Lucy had been working hard to achieve this qualification since December 2015, when she completed a previous course in bereavement counselling, so was delighted that it had all paid off when she achieved a merit.
Lucy joins a long line of accredited funeral directors within the family as Lucy’s father Martin and his father Maurice Humphris were also honoured, at the event, with being re-presented with their diplomas in funeral directing, an award Maurice first received in May 1959 as part of the first group of funeral directors in the country to be assessed in this way.
Maurice’s brother John was also one of the first accredited embalmers in the country, a tradition into which his son Christopher would later follow him. Humphris Funerals are now privileged to be able to call on three qualified embalmers within the firm.
Lucy joins her cousin Matthew as the fifth generation of funeral directors within the family. Matthew having completed the diploma in funeral arranging and administration in 2013 and then being among the first in the country to be awarded a revised and more in-depth diploma in funeral directing. Humphris Funerals has always been a very family oriented firm committed to the highest standards of training and professionalism
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