Gateway Funeral Services is an established business independently owned by Funeral Directors Janice Hutton and Richard Arnold. Our private Chapel of Rest is located in Birkenshaw, the home of the headquarters, of West Yorkshire Fire Service with other chapels in Cleckheaton, Bradford, Leeds and we have the use of a chapel in Huddersfield. We are able to offer funerals to families in the whole of the West Yorkshire area, including Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Pontefract & Leeds. We also offer funerals to families in North, South, East Yorkshire & Lancashire.
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Gateway Funeral Services, in partnership with the Muchloved charity are able to offer you the facility to create your own memorial website, where you can express feelings about your loved one in words, pictures and music.
Star - How to help children with a funeral
We are here to make this time easier for everyone involved. To do this, we have introduced STAR (a Special Time to Always Remember). STAR is a sensitive, caring approach to help children understand what a funeral is. We will encourage children to take a more active part in the funeral, and to allay fears about what the funeral is all about, by giving them the opportunity to hear the words of the funeral process, to express their feelings and concerns, and to write a STAR message to their loved one who has died.
Following the death of a close relative or friend everything can suddenly become confusing, and it can be very difficult to know what to do next, or even where to turn. Understanding the procedures that follow a death can help to put our minds at rest. It will depend on whether the person has died suddenly, at home or in hospital.
If the death was expected due to an illness, you should firstly contact the GP to inform them of the death. The Doctor will attend to confirm the death, and if he/she is satisfied with the cause of death, you will be able to contact a Funeral Director of your choice who will move the person who has died to their funeral home. The doctor will then issue The medical certificate of cause of death which will enable you to register the death.
