Our contingency planning regarding Covid-19

- UPDATE 17th December 2021: When attending a funeral, face masks are now mandatory once again. In addition to this, we are now returning to not being able to provide face to face appointments. Video calls via Skype, Facetime or Zoom can be accommodated. This is owing to the alarming transmissability of the Omicron variant and we must do everything we can to keep our staff, and the families we work with, safe. We are also adopting additional measures internally to ensure we reduce the risk of transmission as much as we are able.

We ask for your continued forbearance and understanding in these difficult times. If you have any queries at all about the service we are able to provide to you, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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We are family run undertakers & stonemasons serving the people of East Sussex since 1875

Six generations of the Towner family have owned and run the company

We serve the Hastings and Rother area, with offices in St Leonards, Bexhill and Battle

Every funeral we provide is unique: no off-the-shelf packages which limit your choices

We are part of your community; we know the local customs...

...and the local area. We serve people of all faith groups and none.

We may have our roots in the past but our vision is to the future

The Towners - Beverley, Oliver, Hannah and Edward

We are family run undertakers & stonemasons serving the people of East Sussex since 1875

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The leading funeral directors serving the Hastings and Rother area.

We are the only remaining locally owned funeral directors who started business in the 19th Century. We may have our roots in the past but our vision is to the future.

Edward Towner
5th generation and current Chairman

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We were fortunate that Towner's recently handled the arrangements for my mother's funeral. The funeral was carried out in a most professional and dignified way. Edward Towner's friendliness, empathy, kindness, experience and attention to detail were very much appreciated by all the family and he and his team certainly made things much easier for us all at such a difficult time. Thank you.

You and your team made what to many may have been a slightly unusual ceremony roll along without any hiccups. This went towards ensuring that Mum’s cremation service was such a happy, enjoyable celebration of her life. You made sure that everything happened when it should, where it should, how it should. We had relatives travelling down from all over the South East and they all said it was the most fantastic service. Mum would have loved it. I can’t speak highly enough of Arthur C. Towner Ltd.

On behalf of my mother and myself I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for your company’s handling of my father’s recent funeral. Having never organised one before, from the moment I entered your website I felt I was entering a very professional organisation. The website was able to answer all my initial questions with ease. The moment we stepped into your office in St. Leonards we felt very well looked after. Throughout the whole sad process we were treated with utmost care, respect and professionalism. Thank you.

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