FairHaven Best Funeral Home in Fort Wayne again, say Readers' Choice voters
FairHaven Funeral Home • Sep 22, 2020
We're pleased to announce that FairHaven Funeral Home has been voted the Best Funeral Home in Fort Wayne for the second year in row!
BEST OF FORT WAYNE: In a year of consequential firsts that had many businesses making adjustments, being voted at the top of their category for the second year in row demonstrates an important level of consistency and poise.
Yesterday FairHaven Funeral Home and Cremation Services
was officially given notice that it had won the popular vote in the Funeral Home category, making it two straight. [See the
Readers' Choice 2020 results and click Best Funeral Home in the side menu].
The popular business awards, which are conducted on behalf of Fort Wayne Newspapers, are an important yardstick for local businesses and a great help to consumers seeking quality professional services.
"We're incredibly grateful and humbled by this award," partner-director Britton Claghorn said. "It really feels like the Fort Wayne community is coming to appreciate our local sensibility and the value we offer."
And yet in this year of unpredictable upheaval, beginning with shortages of PPE and state social distancing guidelines, FairHaven staff have kept their composure in delivering full-on support when loss visits itself on a family.
Partner-director Mark Scheidt said, "Our focus continues to be the needs of a family that lost someone close. It's compassion, it's assurance that steadies them. It's not a made-up thing, it's what you have running through your mind when you're taking care of others and their loved one."
Staff at FairHaven are proud of their long service experience. They are state certified practitioners and have been highly praised by client-families in Google Reviews
and on Facebook.
Families repeatedly express feelings of authentic support and kindness in making accommodations, planning and presenting a tribute or cremation service, or any one of a number of ways a family member's life can be celebrated and remembered.
Recently Steffen was singled out as one of Fort Wayne's top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40. [Read Forty Under 40 Award Winner]
"Let's face it, the death of someone we love is very very difficult. It's an extraordinary change for everyone involved," Steffen said. "We're here to answer this sensitive circumstance with kind understanding, and the aim of helping families say goodbye in the most appreciable way possible."
The public feedback so far indicates that FairHaven is providing an exceptional service experience and value.
When it comes to end-of-life care, you and your family have choices. However, the most important one may be which funeral home you select. Listen in as partner-director Mark Scheidt expands on the subject in our latest spot — plus brief testimonials from families we've served.
We're pleased to be recognized as Fort Wayne's Best Funeral Home for the third time in three years. It's proof positive that our brand of care — authentic, local and deriving from a deep sense of mission — is speaking directly to Fort Wayne families and helping them heal.
FairHaven Funeral Home has been nominated for the Readers' Choice Best of Business award, and we're looking for your vote. We invite you to learn what made FairHaven the number one funeral home in Fort Wayne in 2019 and 2020.
Funeral director and partner Jarod Steffen received a Forty Under 40 Award for his community work and business acumen. He and his partners at FairHaven Funeral Home have remade the end-of-life care experience to be more comfortable, authentic and affordable.
With the help of volunteer Honor Guard, owner-director Mark Scheidt was able to give Robert Thompson Sr. a military funeral for his naval service during the Vietnam war.
Social distancing has put up some barriers for the traditional practices of consoling loved ones, but FairHaven's Mark Scheidt is providing alternative kinds of support and guidance.