scone.com.auFuneral Notices
IN small towns people are connected to each other and when someone passes away it can have a ripple effect through the community.
More than 1,200 people log onto scone.com.au each day to read the latest news in our community and then share the stories and information with others they know will be interested.
They are not only local people, but also people who live across the country and overseas who have a connection to our community.
scone.com.au can help you inform the community when someone passes, advise of funeral arrangements and publish a fitting tribute.
Since scone.com.au is online we can publish the information within hours of you providing it to us, ensuring people are given plenty of notice for a funeral.
The cost of a funeral notice is $70 and we can give you all the space you need for a tribute with a full web page.
“When I was organising my dad’s funeral I was concerned about how I would be able to track down people who knew my dad.
A family who I had grown up were now living interstate and I had no idea how I was going to reach them.
I was living in London and organising to get a plane home when I called the editor of scone.com.au to ask how I could get the word out and we published a notice on scone.com.au.
By the time I landed in Hong Kong on my way home I’d received word that one of the family friends we were trying to reach was living in Queensland, had read the notice on scone.com.au and had informed the rest of their family.
Getting the word out so quickly meant they could make it to the funeral and it meant the world to us.
It made a difficult time a little easier knowing we could reach so many people, so quickly.”
– Nancy Lee
What we recommend you include:
- full name;
- age at time of death;
- when they passed away;
- who they are survived by;
- some details of their life such as where they were born, where they lived, what they did;
- details of the funeral, and
- a photograph.
Sending the information:
The simplest way to send us the information is to email it to: notices@scone.com.au.
- Photographs need to be at least 300 pixels wide (don’t worry we can help you).
- Alternatively you can simply phone us and you can tell us what you’d like included: 0414 552 4743 or 02 6545 9013.
- The information will be posted on the website and a link shared on our Facebook page.
Examples of tributes and notices: