Stephen P Gay Funeral Service, Dartford
Fifth generation family funeral director in Dartford, offering a 24 hour service, repatriations and memorials for the local community.
Funeral Services
- Traditional burial
- Simple funeral
- Traditional cremation
- Home visit
- On-site parking
- Chapel of rest
Funeral arrangements
- Home visit
- 24 hour telephone support
- On-site parking
- Chapel of rest
- Hearse
- Limousine
- Horse-drawn hearse
- Bespoke vehicle
- Coffin
- Personalised coffin
- Casket
- Headstone / Plaque
- Urn
- Memorial jewellery
- Floral tributes
- Charitable donations
- Newspaper announcement
- Online obituary
- Memorial book
- Order of service sheets
- Music
- Video tribute
- Funeral webcasting
- Catering
- Dove release
- Balloon release
- Fireworks
Types of funeral
- Traditional burial
- Simple funeral
- Traditional cremation
- Green funeral
- Direct cremation
- Burial at sea
- Non-religious funeral
- Anglican funeral
- Roman Catholic funeral
- Muslim funeral
- Jewish funeral
- Sikh funeral
- Hindu funeral
- Buddhist funeral
- Children’s funeral
Financial arrangements
- Financial advice
- Wills & probate
- Pre-paid funeral plan
Additional services
- Repatriation
- Bereavement counselling
- List of mourners
About Us
Stephen P Gay Funeral Service is a funeral director in Dartford, owned and run by Stephen and his sons, David and Dominic, the 5th and 6th generation funeral directors respectively. With a strong family background of five generations, they have acquired the knowledge and experience to provide the local community with a 24 hour service, repatriations and memorials.
Stephen P Gay Funeral Service is a truly family-run business who can provide any kind of funeral, from traditional services to any kind of bespoke funeral. They can include any special requirements that you may have, with a range of traditional coffins, modern American caskets, wicker and bamboo coffins, eco-friendly cardboards and even one-off coloured coffins printed with your own photo or design. They can provide a range of vehicles, owning a modern fleet of Mercedes hearses and limousines, and also facilitating any kind of funeral transport. motorcycle hearses, white, pink or silver hearses, VWs, Land Rovers or traditional black or white horse drawn carriages or even Shire horses are available.
The funeral home in Dartford has its own calmly decorated chapels of rest, giving you and your closest loved ones the space to say goodbye in peace and quiet. Stephen P Gay are specialists in repatriation if your loved one died abroad, and can make any necessary arrangements in this regard. They also offer home visits if you would prefer to make the funeral arrangements in the comfort of your own home.
Call Stephen P Gay Funeral Service in Dartford at any time of the day or night to begin working together to plan the perfect funeral for your loved one.
What Families Say
AI SummaryFamilies consistently describe the care and compassion shown by staff throughout their experience, from the initial contact through to the funeral day itself, noting that this personal approach helped ease them through a difficult time.
Many families mention that they were kept informed at each stage of the arrangements and were guided through what to expect, with staff being attentive to their questions and concerns and taking time to explain the process clearly.
Several families comment on how the funeral day itself went smoothly and felt personal, with the staff who conducted the service treating them with sensitivity and ensuring that everything proceeded as planned.
This summary is generated by AI from recent verified reviews.
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Latest Verified Reviews
Frances Evett-Towner 1st Sep 2025
From start to finish, all our interactions with all of the team were excellent. Everyone was compassionate, caring and efficient. Thank you
Sharon Sr Clair 20th May 2024
Extremely happy with the service received from Stephen P Gay, right from the start with sorting all the arrangements, order of service, celebrant and to on the day. Telling us in a calm and considerate way of how things will proceed. It is such a hard and emotional process sorting a funeral for your loved one, but they put us at ease with all the help and support they gave. I just want to say thank you for everything you did for myself and my daughters at such a sad time.
Lynn Brenlund 13th Feb 2024
The staff at Stephen Gay was most helpful every step of the way guiding us through, they suggested Sue Viner to be our celebrant , Sue took time to come and talk to my family and made sure that every step of the order of service was correct. Sue conducted our service with such empathy family and friends thought she must of known my husband Reg well. I would highly recommend any family Stephen P Gay Funeral Service to look after their loved ones as they do it with such care. Thank you Lynn Brenlund