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Pre-paying a Funeral : Case Studies

Tobin Brothers Funerals recently arranged a funeral for a lady who completed a Fixed Price Funeral Plan with us in the 1980s. Her Fixed Price Funeral was paid off over a 3 year period and then...
By James MacLeod - Managing Director, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Friday, April 4, 2014

Tobin Brothers Funerals 80th Anniversary

“It is fitting in this year of 1955 as we attain our majority of 21 years of faithful service to the Catholic community of Victoria that we should express our thanks to the thousands of families wh...
By James MacLeod - Managing Director, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Celebrating Christmas…Celebrating Life

For all of us Christmas means different things at different times during our lifetimes. For me, as a child growing up Christmas was always a time that I looked forward to as a wonderful o...
By James MacLeod - Managing Director, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Friday, December 13, 2013

Funeral Insurance : Traps for the Unwary

As a provider of services to our clients and their families at what is undoubtedly the most difficult time of their lives, Tobin Brothers Funerals are concerned at the extent to which the expectati...
By James MacLeod - Managing Director, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, August 19, 2013

Previous Posts

Christmas Message 2020

In our lifetimes there has never been a more important time to gather. As 2020 commenced, after our country was crippled with bushfires and so many tragically lost their homes and some their loved...

Beating COVID19 is a community effort

It was On 23rd March 2020 that Tobin Brothers Funerals cared for its first COVID19 death. Since that time, we have cared for over 100 clients who have died from this hideous virus. Over my 30 plus ...

Get the Test Done

  In March 2020 I turned 50, it was a very quiet celebration as we had just commenced going into COVID19 lockdown. A few weeks after I turned 50 a parcel arrived for me in the post, a prese...

Tobin Brothers are here to help

  Funerals are an important time for family and friends to come together as a community to express our love and process our thoughts and feelings about the death of someone we love. The funer...

Bushfire Support and Counselling

As a funeral director of 33 years I think the most difficult thing I have ever confronted was the town of Marysville following the Black Saturday fires. During the days that followed we, at Tobin B...

Coronavirus Assistance

On 30 January 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. ...

Christmas Message 2019

Christmas is a wonderful occasion...but equally, it can be a very tough day for many in the community. To everyone who is so very much looking forward to Christmas, I wish you a wonderful day.&nbs...