Jones Funeral Home and Parkview Funeral Chapel unite to offer more to the community
W.J. Jones and Son and Parkview Funeral Homes have joined forces to provide a wider range of services and support to the Moose Jaw community.
The funeral homes held a BBQ at Parkview Funeral Chapel on Friday, July 13 where they celebrated their official union and introduced their new relationship to the community.
Their union means that the two funeral homes are now operating under one umbrella, following an official purchase of Parkview Funeral Home by W.J. Jones and Son.
The two are, however, reassuring the community that this will not affect whatever plans they had with either funeral homes prior to the amalgamation. Instead, the two homes now have a wider range of services after pooling their resources together that they can now offer the community as one.
General Manager at W.J. Jones, Dayna Chamberlain, says this union ensures that the community’s needs are met on a wider scale. “WJ Jones has purchased Parkview but their name is not going to change nor the facilities. Basically, Parkview is now part of our umbrella and we’re all going to work together. For families that have concerns in relation to pre-planning for example, with Jones or Parkview, this means that their plans are still completely the same as they were before. However, persons have more options as to what they can do,” Chamberlain explained. “With our joining together, both of the funeral homes under one umbrella, we have so much more we can offer. We have more staff, different facilities and services we can offer now. For the public, it is a ‘winwin’ situation. They are still going to see the same faces at Parkview, whether at their location or ours. For the community, they’ll see that a lot quicker than they might have thought.”
She further explained that Jones has always had a working relationship with Parkview and this union makes it offi- cial. “With this joining, we’re getting to work together with our friends. That’s the exciting part about this move. We’ve always put the community first in what we can offer; we listen to what the community needs are for funeral services and I think that now we can provide for those needs together and provide so much more to them,” Chamberlain added. “With us joining together, the gaps we’re able to fill are wider because these are two different facilities that offer a range of services. For example, Parkview has a facility with a chapel attached as well as a reception area and large parking. Jones on the other hand, also has a chapel and parking but we have a reception center off site that’s smaller. Therefore, with these resources that we have pooled together, this gives us the opportunity to have services in a chapel setting in either location and an opportunity to have celebrations of life that people want in a more intimate facility or a larger facility.”
Kelly and Blair Scott, Directors/Owners of Parkview, echoed the same sentiments, describing this union as a “marriage” that has long been in the works. “This is like two groups of friends coming together, almost like a marriage. We’ve been working together for 10 years back and forth; sharing cars, staff, people and we’ve done everything except join our business. We are now looking forward to a different type of relationship but we’re still doing the same things,” said Blair.
“As we continue to offer our services and more, people will get comfortable seeing us together. Our idea is to mesh our staff together so that there is a flow from one facility to the other so that individuals get the care that they expect, whether at Parkview or at WJ Jones. We want persons to know that it is the same people they know; we’re all coming together and working well to provide that quality care and compassionate service that we always have,” added Kelly.