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Three minute interview
Theron Hemsell, owner of Hemsell Repatriation Services
Describe yourself in two
words ?
Determined, passionate.
When you were at school,
what did you want to be and
why?
A paramedic. I saw a
documentary on the TV when
I was about 14 about the
ambulance service and decided
there and then that that was my
life goal. How wrong was I?!
How did you get to be where
you are today?
Purely by accident, after leaving
school and not being able to
settle at college I was asked
by a friend who was a funeral
director at the now long gone
Ilkeston Co-op Funeral Service
if I wanted to go down to the
office he managed to help him
arrange paperwork, I was there
later in the afternoon when
the manager walked in, we hit
it off and by the evening I was
on my first ever first call home
removal, I found my calling, I
went on to working with other
Co-operatives, but mainly family
owned funeral homes where I
was able to learn much more.
Which aspect of your job do
you enjoy most and why?
All of it, The first call side of
things because myself and
the team are able to make the
worst times in everyone’s lives
that little bit more bearable.
The long distance transfers or
repatriations because I meet
amazing people, and see
amazing sights.
What is your proudest
achievement?
Starting Hemsell Repatriation
Services Ltd and being able to
watch it grow over time.
What is the best advice
you've been given in work or
in life in general?
My dad who always pushed me
to do what I wanted said that I
just needed to be level headed
and never give up. He passed
away in 2003 and sadly never
got to see the family service that
he is still a big part of.
What is your next goal?
The final touch for HRS is
already in progress, a goal
that has been in the planning
stage for three years, but at the
moment it is very much a secret,
but you will be the first to know
I’m sure.
Tributes for Baby & Child
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Our range includes beautiful Scatter Tubes, urns, keepsakes and memorials that are
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We offer an in-house laser engraving service for all coffin name plaques, as well as for
personalisation of caskets, keepsakes and memorials.
t: 0845 388 8742 ◦ f : 0845 388 8743 ◦ e: [email protected]
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