Funeral Directors
in Brisbane

Newhaven Funerals describes itself as a family-owned, locally operated funeral provider for South East Queensland. Its main funeral home is at 21 Quinns Hill Road West, Stapylton, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, and it has a second office at Burleigh Heads. The Stapylton grounds hold two chapels, the Yellowwood Chapel seating up to 105 people and the Mount Stapylton Chapel seating up to 60, along with a function centre for wakes, arranging rooms, a mortuary care centre and memorial gardens. Newhaven also looks after Eco Memorial Park, which it describes as its company-owned crematorium.

The firm makes a point of keeping transport and facilities in-house and assigning one funeral director to each family. It arranges traditional and non-traditional funerals, cremations, burials, memorial services, natural burials at Alberton Cemetery, embalming, exhumations and pre-paid funeral plans, and can organise an ocean ceremony for scattering ashes. Its cultural services page covers First Nations, Māori, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Bahá'í funerals, and services can be livestreamed.

Newhaven serves Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, and its phone line, (07) 3807 4444, is staffed 24 hours a day. When we checked on 27 October 2026, it listed a Non-attended Cremation from $2,999 (excluding the government levy), a Memorial Service from $5,865 and a Chapel Service from $7,353.10, with burial costs set out in its downloadable price guide.

Academy Funerals is an independent funeral home that has been 100% Australian and family-owned since 1998. It is based at Jacques Court, Lawnton, in the Moreton Bay region north of Brisbane, and its funeral directors work across Brisbane and South East Queensland, with dedicated pages for Mt Gravatt, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. Arrangements can be started 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Academy presents its options as starting points that families can mix, alter or trim, and the final cost is explained in the arrangement meeting before anything is signed. Services include cremation and burial funerals in a chapel, church or other venue of the family's choosing, unattended (direct) cremation, memorial services, private viewings, children's funerals, livestreaming for relatives who cannot attend, and pre-arranged or pre-paid funerals. Its coffin range includes eco-friendly models made from sustainably sourced timber and forestry thinnings, plus a wicker range certified by the World Fair Trade Organization.

Families can call (07) 3261 8222 at any hour. When we checked on 27 October 2026, Academy's pricing page listed an Unattended Cremation at $1,999, a cremation service in a Brisbane chapel at $6,573 to $8,000, an Unattended Burial at $3,990 plus the cemetery fee, and a church, chapel or graveside burial service at $5,496 plus the cemetery fee.

K.M.Smith Funeral Directors dates from 1883, when John Smith bought an undertaking business in George Street, Brisbane. After John died in 1886, his wife Kate Mary Smith took over and became Queensland's first lady funeral director, and in 2010 she was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame. The company is still 100% Australian family-owned: directors Allen Smith and Denise Smith are great-grandchildren of the founders, and Allen's son Liam is chairman.

The head office at 53 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills, houses the Kate Mary Chapel, a refreshment lounge and on-site parking. Further offices are at Arana Hills, Aspley, Capalaba, Goodna, Hillcrest, Kenmore, Mt Gravatt, North Lakes, Sherwood, Victoria Point and Wynnum. K.M.Smith owns its private mortuary at Banyo, which no other funeral director uses, as well as its transfer vehicles and hearses.

Services include burial, cremation, memorial services, livestreaming, prearranged funerals, domestic and international repatriation, and multicultural funerals, with a private room for ceremonial dressing and evening Rosary or prayer gatherings held in the chapel. Staff can be reached 24 hours a day on (07) 3252 2031. When we checked on 27 October 2026, its funeral costs page itemised each fee and listed an Unattended (No Service, No Attendance) Cremation package at $6,142 in total.

Silver Dove Funerals is a 100% family-owned funeral home run by husband and wife Ada and Michael Filer, its owners. Ada, the managing director, has cared for families across South East Queensland for more than 18 years, and Michael has been business director for over a decade. The office is at 3/76 Sumners Road, Sumner, in Brisbane's western suburbs, where families can look through coffins, caskets and cremation urns in person.

Care of the deceased is handled in-house, and families deal with the same team from the first call to the farewell instead of being passed from person to person. Silver Dove arranges religious and non-religious services in churches, chapels, temples, parks, beaches, clubs or family homes, as well as veterans' funerals, funerals for children and babies, and interstate or overseas repatriations. It offers a Quality of Care Guarantee and says it will try to match or beat a lower written quote for the same service.

The firm covers Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Bayside, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. The office opens 9am to 5pm on weekdays, and immediate care is available 24/7 on (07) 3279 5388. When we checked on 27 October 2026, it listed Direct Cremation No Service at $2,790, a Memorial Service at $2,830, a Full Burial Service at $6,110 (gravesite and interment extra) and a Full Cremation Service at $6,930.

Alex Gow Funerals traces its origins to Queensland's first funeral business, set up in 1840 by Andrew Petrie at Petrie Bight. Alexander Gow joined the firm in 1908 and became sole owner in 1909, and it has stayed family-owned and independently operated since then, with fourth and fifth generations of the Gow family still active in the business. The family also owns the Great Northern Garden of Remembrance crematorium and chapel at Deception Bay.

The head office is at 463 Newman Road, Geebung, with branches at Thornlands, Browns Plains and Deception Bay, giving coverage from Bribie Island and Caboolture down to Jimboomba and Beaudesert and east to Redland Bay. Alex Gow uses its own staff for every transfer, prepares each person in its own mortuary at Geebung and runs its own fleet of funeral vehicles. It is a member of Funerals Australia and Selected Independent Funeral Homes. Services cover burial and cremation, pre-arranged funerals, live web streaming, catering and grief support, and arrangements can be made at home.

Branches open 8am to 5pm on weekdays, and the head office has staff on call after hours on (07) 3851 7800. When we checked on 27 October 2026, its cost guide gave an unattended cremation example at $7,502 and a simple funeral at a crematorium at $10,100, with those figures stated as current to 30 June 2026.

George Hartnett Metropolitan Funerals was formed in 2017 when two Brisbane funeral homes, George Hartnett Funerals and Metropolitan Funerals, merged. The business says its history runs back to the 1940s and that the two firms bring more than 145 years of combined experience. The business is part of InvoCare, as its Queensland price disclosure states, and is a member of Funerals Australia.

Its 12 funeral homes are spread across Brisbane, Redland City, Logan and Moreton Bay, at Mount Gravatt, Holland Park, Wynnum, Cleveland, Aspley, Kelvin Grove, Sandgate, Taringa, Regents Park, Albany Creek, Redcliffe and Bribie Island. The firm points to an on-site chapel and refreshment room that families can use at no extra cost, and says its directors are connected with places of worship from Chinese Buddhist and Christian communities to Russian and Serbian Orthodox churches. Services include funerals and memorials, burials, cremations, private viewings, livestreaming, repatriation and pre-planned funerals.

Support is available 24/7 on 1300 662 172, and the Mount Gravatt branch can be called on (07) 3349 9211. When we checked on 27 October 2026, the pricing page listed a no service, no attendance cremation from $5,812 ($6,022 at Bribie Island), a funeral service with cremation at $9,328, and a graveside funeral service with burial at $8,047, which excludes the grave, the open and close fee and chapel hire.

Anton Brown Funerals Pty Ltd was formed in 1995 by Anton and Sally Brown and remains 100% Queensland family-owned. Anton has worked in the funeral profession since 1982, and staff wear the Brown family tartan tie as a sign of the family business. The firm has offices at 57 Balaclava Street, Woolloongabba, on Brisbane's south side, and 1285 Gympie Road, Aspley, on the north side.

Much of the arranging happens in families' own homes. Anton Brown's funeral arrangers travel across South East Queensland, as far as the North Coast, west to Toowoomba and south to the Gold Coast and the border. The firm handles burials, cremations, memorial services, funeral pre-planning and domestic and overseas repatriation, and it openly invites families to compare its prices with those of other funeral directors.

Calls are taken 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on (07) 3217 3088, and the Aspley office can be reached on (07) 3863 4000. When we checked on 27 October 2026, its online price guide, dated 22 April 2025, showed a No Service No Attendance Cremation at $3,385, a cremation service at a Brisbane City Council crematorium at about $7,156, and a burial service with a new Brisbane City Council grave at about $11,843.

White Lady Funerals began in 1987 as a collective of women offering a more personal alternative to the formal funeral, and its funeral specialists today include hundreds of women across the country. The brand is part of InvoCare, as stated on its Queensland price disclosure, and is a member of Funerals Australia. It lists more than 50 locations nationally, 14 of them in Queensland.

Around greater Brisbane, White Lady has funeral homes at Kelvin Grove, Clayfield, Morningside, Wynnum, Chelmer, Tanah Merah, Victoria Point and Burpengary. The Kelvin Grove branch at 270 Kelvin Grove Road, which uses the number shown on this page, has an on-site reception room for gatherings after a service and is open 8am to 5pm on weekdays, with weekend appointments available. The team arranges burials, cremations, chapel and church services, graveside services and pre-planned funerals, and services can also be held in parks, sporting clubs, halls or private homes.

Families can phone (07) 3356 1784 for Kelvin Grove or the national line on 1300 656 550, which is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When we checked on 27 October 2026, the Kelvin Grove price disclosure, dated 15 October 2026, listed a Cremation Only package from $7,162, with professional fees of $4,840 for a single service and $6,259 for a dual service.