Gowing Funeral Home

Sadly, I'm suddenly in the market for end of life arrangements and had about $20,000 to spend so I'd like to thank Lacie Turner for her detailed and seemingly EXTREMELY honest review...because of her review, I will be be sure to meet my funeral needs elsewhere. I'm sorry you had to deal with such a clusterf*** but thank you for saving me from the same mistake AND wasting my great great auntie's funeral money!!! Thank you!!!

Used Gowing Funeral Home based on ease of location. Entire thing was a circus. Death is never easy but having an incompetent funeral director makes it even more painful. Larry could barely get names right for the obituary, then it read like a 4th grader wrote it. Important people were left out of the obituary which were in the final draft 2 family members reviewed prior to sending to the papers. Of course no personal responsibility from Larry at all. I live an hour and 45 minutes away, was given until 10:30 the next morning to see my father before he was sent for cremation which my family wasn't informed of until 5 pm the evening before. Then, he couldn't meet with my family until 3 on Sunday to discuss plans because he had 2 funerals the day before and was overwhelmed, had to wait up until 9 that night to review and re-write his pathetic attempt at an obituary. He gave us until Wednesday to decide if we wanted hand outs at the memorial service or not. I called Tuesday morning around 9 to ask a question, seemed like I woke him up and he was very put out about the phone call. I called on Wednesday morning to see if other family members had given the go ahead for the hand outs, he was very rude and said we were supposed to let him know by Wednesday (which it was), my aunt said he had told her to let him know by that afternoon. Reminded us that it would be an additional cost. My mother called to see if we could come in around 4 to begin setting up for my dad's memorial service, he said we couldn't until 4:30, she asked for additional copies of his death certificate, and once again we were reminded of the extra cost for those. When I arrived at 5 to help set up and asked for another table he informed me they only had the 2 tables and that was it. Then proceeded to ask if we “were able to come up with the funding for the service.” An amazingly once I wrote him a check he found 2 more tables to use. Please don't waste your time or money using Larry at Gowing Funeral home, it made the tragic loss of my father that much worse dealing with absolute and total incompetence as well as his complete rudeness and lack of tact.