Welcome to the Papatoetoe Funeral Cottage website

Papatoetoe Funeral Cottage specialises in homely, family funeral services and is a family-owned, New Zealand-operated business, established in 1989.

Yvonne Graham and her daughter Catherine, along with their staff, offer professional and comforting service in your time of need, working with you and your family to look after every detail in the funeral arrangements for your loved one.

The Papatoetoe Funeral Cottage offers compassionate funeral service at fair prices with cost effective funeral packages, caskets or coffins and memorial headstones and plaques. We have peaceful and serene viewing and arrangement rooms for you and your family in our homely premises centrally located in the Papatoetoe/Manukau area and a small on-site non-denominational chapel. See our Services page for further details.

Yvonne Graham is a professional, well respected, sympathetic and caring funeral director who is well known and respected in the community, where she has served since 1989. Yvonne is there for you in your time of need. Yvonne has served the community as a Rotarian for many years.

Catherine van de Vegte is a funeral director and is Yvonne's daughter, with the same caring nature and professionalism as her mother. Catherine has a young family, is a registered nurse and has worked in the community with the aged.

Ross Pokere is our fully qualified funeral director and embalmer. Ross is a family man, with very high values and ethics and he is a voluntary minister of religion in his spare time. Ross has also served the community as a Rotarian for many years.