Honouring Your Loved Ones with Dignity, Care, & Respect
In life’s most difficult moments, you deserve to feel supported. Oakleigh Funeral Home walks alongside you, offering compassionate, professional guidance and personalised farewells, tailored to your needs and shaped with dignity, care, and respect.”
Pre-Planning
Take control of your final wishes by planning in advance, relieving your family of difficult decisions and securing costs ahead of time.
Cremations
Our cremation services offer a flexible and dignified option, with care and attention given to every detail.
Burials
We guide you through every step of arranging a meaningful burial, ensuring a respectful, personalised tribute to your loved one.
Our Family Taking Care of Your Family
Why Oakleigh Funeral Home?
We are an established funeral home with deep-rooted values, stability and over 27 years of experience. Based in four centres within KZN – Pietermaritzburg, Howick, Durban and Gillitts, we are flexible, consulting with families in one of our homely consulting rooms, at their home, or via email.
Serving families during their time of need is our calling. Walking alongside our families and offering peace of mind is at the core of our values.
Our professional and sensitive staff will help with any request – big or small – to ease the burden at the time of loss.
Our service is comprehensive. We offer tailor-made funerals, dignified mortuary services, funeral insurance, pre-planning, monumentals, cremations, memorial services, memorial jewellery, venue hire, catering and floral arrangements.”
Compassionate Support
24-hour care
Personalised Service
Tailored to individual needs
Professional Expertise
Decades of experience
Complete
Care
Home affairs, admin, paperwork
Founded in 1999, Oakleigh Funeral Home was born from a vision to keep funeral services personal during a time when the industry was becoming increasingly faceless. Instead of offering rigid packages, Oakleigh allows families to create custom funeral services that honour their loved ones and meet their personal needs.
Oakleigh serves the greater Durban and Pietermaritzburg regions, operating within a 150km radius. This includes private mortuaries in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, satellite offices in Howick and Gillitts and our 120 seater Fernleigh Chapel & Conference Centre in Prestbury.
All facilities are privately owned by Oakleigh, ensuring secure, controlled environments for the care of your loved ones.
At Oakleigh, our work is not just a profession, but a calling driven by compassion and sensitivity.
Our team, made up of over 35 dedicated individuals, have each experienced personal loss, giving them a genuine appreciation for the emotional weight families carry during this time. As a multicultural, community-connected team, we honour and respect a wide range of cultural and religious traditions, ensuring every family feels seen, supported, and understood.
Because a funeral is a once-in-a-lifetime moment to say goodbye, we approach every service with the utmost care, dignity, and attention to detail. We are committed to walking alongside you with sensitivity and respect, helping you create a meaningful farewell that truly reflects the life being honoured.
Additional Services
Oakleigh offers a fully comprehensive service, guiding families through every step without the need to coordinate with multiple providers.
Embalming and restorative cosmetology
Family viewings
Preparation of ashes for international transport
Repatriations
Exhumations
Family vehicles and hearses
Cremation jewellery
Bookmarks and service pamphlets
Long-distance transport
Monumentals, tombstones and memorial plaques
Need immediate support?
We are here for you, day or night.
Whether you require immediate support after the loss of a loved one, or wish to speak with someone about planning ahead.
Call our 24-Hour Careline: 086 111 1380
Oakleigh has built a trusted reputation within the community
Oakleigh were very efficient, kind, on the ball and caring. I would definitely make use of their services again.
Very happy. Couldn’t have asked for better in such sad circumstances.
At a very emotional time, Oakleigh Funeral Home was extremely compassionate, kind, and efficient.
27 Years in Business with 30,000+ Funerals Conducted
PMCB & Gold Circle Service Excellence Award Winners
National Funeral Directors Association of SA Member
I have used Oakleigh Funeral Home for two family members who passed away (several years apart), and on both occasions I was treated with the utmost respect. They showed compassion, were exceedingly helpful and made a very difficult time easy. I never had to worry about anything. They kept me informed on every step they took, all I had to worry about was getting through the funeral which was also so beautifully organised.
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Call Our 24-Hour Careline
Simply call our careline on 086 111 1380. We are here for you anytime of the night or day.
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We Collect Your Loved One
Our trained, compassionate team will transfer your loved one into one of our private mortuaries.
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We make Arrangements
Meet with one of our consultants to discuss the next steps – whether you want a funeral service or not.
Without experienced guidance, families can feel overwhelmed, unsupported, and unsure how to navigate the funeral process at an extremely vulnerable time. At Oakleigh, families receive compassionate guidance, dignified care for their loved one, and a meaningful service that honours their loved ones life.