Art Stone Memorials, a local business which specialises in creating and renovating graveside memorials across the Midlands, is offering to tidy up and lay wreaths and flowers on the graves of loved ones whose families cannot visit this Christmas.
Art Stone Memorials, which has a workshop in Drakelow and main showroom in Stapenhill, is part of family-owned Wathall’s and also has a presence in the funeral directors’ branches in Derby, Burton, Allestree, Alvaston, Ashbourne, Borrowash and Chaddesden.
The team has offered the service every December since the start of the pandemic when travel and Christmas get-together plans were disrupted by Covid restrictions.
Several families have since taken up the offer and the team are keen to continue the service this year – checking on graves and reporting back any issues, tidying up the area if required and laying wreaths and flowers if families are still unable to visit for whatever reason.
Helen Wathall MBE is the managing director and fifth generation of her family to run Wathall’s funeral directors.
She said: “The Art Stone Memorials team regularly work at local cemeteries, graveyards and crematoria where they install a range of memorials as well as carrying out cleaning, additional inscription and specialist renovation work.
“Using this local knowledge and considering that many families do not now live near their loved one’s grave or cremation memorial, we offer to check on graves, do a spot of tidying up and lay flowers and wreaths.
Please call us on 01283 539531 to discuss your requirements.