About

About Us

Multi Award Winning Family Run Independent Funeral Directors in the centre of Walsall, West Midlands. The Funeral Directors was established in 1996 in Walsall town centre by Dean Harper, Peter Harper and Ken Burgess as a branch office for the Wolverhampton main office of Burgess and Harper. Dean Harper then became sole Director/Owner in 2001 and started to establish a recommended and highly trusted funeral directors under his own name. Burgess and Harper Funeral Directors of Wolverhampton have now been sold to enable Peter Harper and Ken Burgess to retire. As a second generation Funeral Director Dean Harper is committed to continue his business as a family run Funeral Directors with his Daughter and partner along side him.

We believe that each funeral should be as individual as the person who has passed away. We, therefore, offer a wide choice of services which can be tailored to the needs, wishes and requirements of each family. The care taken in providing these services has helped us establish a highly trusted and personally recommended family of funeral directors. We have expect advice on hand with regards to DWP claims and work with Funeral Safe to offer Funeral Finance.

As professional and compassionate funeral directors, we are conscious of the responsibility, trust and confidence bestowed upon us. Our staff pride themselves on offering a professional and supportive service and are available at all times, day or night – and therefore even outside normal office hours, we are here to support every family.

We have a new fleet of Jaguar and Bentley Limousines with all our staff dressed in uniform. We believe all our families should be provided with the best, but at a competitive price, as we understand the financial burden placed onto families.

The local Crematoriums that we frequently use are Streetly, Bushbury, Sandwell Valley, Cannock Chase, Fradley, Birmingham, Telford and Lichfield District.  The local Cemeteries are Streetly, Bloxwich, Essington, Strawberry Lane, Barnetts Lane, Willenhall Lawn, Ryecroft, North Walsall and Wolverhampton, Bushbury, Danescourt, Penn, Hall Green, Bilston, Handsworth, Robin Hood, Hall Green.

We are Members of the National Association of Funeral Directors and The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors.

We also offer a full Monumental Masonry service.  Our team of highly skilled masons have combined skills and knowledge of all aspects of the Memorial industry and  can produce both standard memorials and also those to client’s specification and are amongst the best in the industry. Our memorial masons are fully qualified. With the Masonry side being accredited by B.R.A.M.M (British Register of Accredited Monumental Masons).

We cover most areas such as Walsall, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Brownhills, Burntwood, Norton Canes, Cannock, Bloxwich,  Wednesbury, Shrewsbury, Telford, West Bromwich, Tipton, Stourbridge, Dudley, Gornal, Aldridge, Great Barr, Perry Barr, Edgbaston, Erdington, Tamworth, Lichfield, Burton, Derby, Handsworth, Halesowen.

Finally we are centrally located, just off the Arboretum traffic lights in Walsall just around the corner from Walsall Registrars and have customer parking available.

Contact 01922 638855, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Head Office

21 – 22 Lichfield Street

Walsall

WS1 1TJ

Tel: 01922 638855

Email: info@deanharperfuneraldirectors.co.uk