Lorraine Harper Funeral Celebrant
Funeral celebrant
Covering Silchester, Tadley and 10 more villages
Lorraine Harper is a qualified and insured funeral celebrant. She qualified in 2025 and works with a family to produce a fitting, respectful and supportive service for the person they have lost.
A funeral service built around the person who has died, led with care for their family.
2 recommendations from local residents
About me
Supporting families with a service that celebrates a life.
Lorraine has worked on the other side of the funeral too. She has worked in a hospice, as a crematorium assistant and as a funeral arranger. Those roles have shown her how families feel at each stage, and she uses that to support them with the service and with their grief and bereavement.
A celebrant works alongside the family, the funeral director and the arranger, and takes charge of the service itself. Lorraine starts by meeting the family to learn about the person who has died, and writes the eulogy from what they share. A draft is emailed for the family to check, and it can be changed as many times as they like until it is right.
On the day she leads the service and welcomes everyone, gives words of comfort, and reads the eulogy unless the family would rather read it themselves. She plays the music, gives the committal, and thanks the congregation on the family's behalf. She can advise on music, hymns and poems if a family does not know where to start, and brings in any religious beliefs the family holds.
The funeral director is in charge of the arrangements, and Lorraine works to their wishes as well as the family's. She has built good working relationships with the funeral directors and arrangers she works with, so she knows how each of them likes things carried out.
Families who choose a direct cremation can still have a service, at a chapel or a venue of their choice, without their loved one there. The funeral director does not need to be involved in that.
Every service she leads is a celebration of the person who has died. It is always a privilege to be asked, and the words are about the person and their family, never about the celebrant.
Services I offer
- Funeral services led by a celebrant
- Eulogy written after meeting the family, with a draft to check
- Music, hymns and poems
- Services that include the family's religious beliefs
- Services after a direct cremation, at a chapel or venue of your choice
Get in touch to talk it through, or to ask anything at all about the service.
An EveryVillage partner for Tadley
Lorraine Harper Funeral Celebrant covers 12 villages, each listed below. We checked them before they were listed. How we check
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Serves
Accreditations
- Qualified funeral celebrant, qualified 2025
- Insured
We last checked these in November 2026.
Listed under
- Celebrants in Silchester, Tadley, Pamber Heath, Pamber End, Baughurst, Mortimer Common, Bramley, Aldermaston, Burghfield Common, Kingsclere, Little London and Sherfield on Loddon
Recommendations
2 from local residentsRussell, Burghfield Common
November 2026
To; Lorraine Harper, Funeral Celebrant November 2025 I wanted to pass on our whole family’s whole hearted thanks for the thoroughly professional and personal funeral service you delivered for our brother Richard on Monday. From the start you spent time speaking to me, Ryan, Theresa, Keith and Janet on all aspects of the funeral and offering guidance, ideas and support on how best to plan the service so as to honour Richard and to make this sad time as uplifting as possible. Organising a funeral is a daunting task, especially when so unexpected, so thank you for your professionalism and organisation in managing the fine details which made the day run so smoothly. We were so impressed with your empathy and compassion which made the whole family feel involved and supported throughout the whole process, again thank you. We were so happy with how the ceremony went on Monday and thank you for your personal touch throughout and capturing the real essence of who Richard was and how much we will all miss him. You taking the time to learn to introduce yourself and bid farewell to Richard in Welsh had us all in awe and certainly brought a tear to my eyes. I have received many positive comments on how well you communicated the Order of Service, your calming, clear and soothing delivery was perfect especially when reading the tributes from Ryan and Theresa. This helped us to cope with our grief on the day and to give Richard the send off he so rightly deserved. The service was everything we had hoped for and more and you are a credit to your profession. From the whole of the Jones family, friends and work colleagues we highly recommend Lorraine’s professional and personalised funeral celebrant services. Thanks again. Russell
Keith, Beggarwood
November 2026
We were incredibly grateful for Lorraine's support during our brother's celebration of life. From the start, she kept in close contact, reassuring us that everything would proceed smoothly. She carried out the ceremony with effortless grace and professionalism, making us feel special and treasured. It’s astonishing to think this was her first time doing this work; you would have thought she had been doing it for years. If you want the best and to be treated with dignity in such a sad time, then look no further.
ProfessionalismLorraine was amazing!
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When and where
Opening times
By arrangement rather than set hours.
Where
She comes to you, across the villages listed under Serves above.
