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Funeral directors in Wollongong

Wollongong funeral directors serve the Illawarra from Helensburgh to Kiama, with providers covering Shellharbour and the inland villages. Most have their own chapel, and just under half offer livestreamed services.

According to Funerals Direct, there are 10 funeral directors listed in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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  • Wollongong
  • Bulli
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Parsons Ladies
5.01 reviewWollongong, NSW · 0.6 km

Parsons Ladies is a funeral director serving families in Wollongong, NSW and surrounding areas. The business offers an on-site chapel. First-call coverage is available 24 hours, every day of the week.

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Simplicity Funerals Wollongong
5.01 reviewWollongong, NSW · 0.8 km

Simplicity Funerals Wollongong is a funeral director serving families in Wollongong, NSW and surrounding areas. Facilities include an on-site chapel, livestreaming for distant family. They serve Catholic families. First-call coverage is available 24 hours, every day of the week.

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H.Parsons Funeral Directors Wollongong
4.947 reviewsWollongong, NSW · 0.6 km

H.Parsons Funeral Directors Wollongong is an independent funeral director serving families in Wollongong, NSW and surrounding areas. The business offers an on-site chapel. First-call coverage is available 24 hours, every day of the week.

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Picaluna - Beautiful Funerals - Wollongong
No reviews yetWollongong, NSW · 0.6 km

Picaluna - Beautiful Funerals - Wollongong is a funeral director serving families in Wollongong, NSW and surrounding areas. First-call coverage is available 24 hours, every day of the week.

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Value Cremations
No reviews yetWollongong, NSW

Value Cremations is a funeral director serving families in Wollongong, NSW and surrounding areas. First-call coverage is available 24 hours, every day of the week.

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Tender Funerals Illawarra
5.044 reviewsPort Kembla, NSW · 6.3 km

Tender Funerals Illawarra is a not-for-profit funeral service established in 2016, serving the Illawarra and southern Sydney regions from Port Kembla. Australia's first franchised non-profit funeral director, Tender has delivered over 1400 meaningful and affordable funerals to families experiencing financial hardship through its at-cost pricing model. The service offers personalised after-death care, funeral arrangements and body disposal options, many based on sustainable principles, enabling families to participate actively in their loved one's final rites without incurring significant debt. Contact Tender Funerals Illawarra to discuss your funeral arrangements.

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Hansen & Cole A Guardian Funeral Provider
4.728 reviewsKembla Grange, NSW · 7.5 km

Hansen & Cole Funerals has served the Illawarra region for decades, providing funeral services, memorials and personalised farewells across South Coast NSW. With locations in Bulli and Kembla Grange, the Kembla Grange funeral home is the largest on the South Coast. The caring team offers flexible services inclusive of all beliefs, religions and cultures, available 24/7 to help families honour their loved ones with respect and dignity. Contact the team to discuss your funeral arrangements.

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Rankins Funerals
4.315 reviewsWarrawong, NSW · 6.4 km

Rankins Funerals serves Warrawong and the wider Illawarra region, and is partnered with Funeral Arranger, an online funeral planning platform that lets families build a Rankins funeral plan from home. Through the platform, families can compare options, work through service choices and receive a personalised funeral quote without leaving the house. Rankins arranges burial, cremation and tailored memorials across the Illawarra. The Warrawong office is best contacted directly for at-need calls or to talk through the online plan.

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Wollongong City Funerals
5.04 reviewsDapto, NSW · 11 km

Wollongong City Funerals is a funeral home in Wollongong serving families across the Illawarra. The firm offers burials, cremations, embalming, infant and children's services and floral arrangements, plus pre-paid plans, funeral bonds, eulogy support, photo presentations and grief support information. Chapel use can be arranged through the office for families gathering after the service. First calls are taken 24 hours a day for transfers into care.

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Hansen & Cole A Guardian Funeral Provider
4.25 reviewsBulli, NSW · 10 km

Hansen & Cole, a Guardian Funeral Provider, runs two funeral homes on the New South Wales South Coast, with the Bulli office covering the northern Illawarra and the Kembla Grange location standing as the largest funeral home on the South Coast. Services can be arranged almost anywhere the family chooses, including a park, beach or church, with extended coverage to surrounding regions. Hansen & Cole is an AFDA member and is on call 24 hours a day for first calls from Illawarra families.

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Wollongong funeral directors serve families across the metropolitan area

Arranging a funeral in Wollongong

Wollongong cemeteries are run as a single council network called Wollongong Memorial Gardens, which covers nine sites across the Illawarra rather than one main cemetery for the whole city. Wollongong Memorial Gardens itself, at Unanderra, is the largest of these and the only one with an on-site crematorium. The other eight, including Bulli Cemetery, Helensburgh Cemetery, Scarborough Cemetery and the historic Berkeley Pioneer Cemetery, are smaller and mostly serve their own local area rather than the whole region.

Because there is one operator for almost the entire network, a funeral director arranging a burial anywhere from Helensburgh in the north to the older parts of Berkeley usually deals with the same council cemeteries office, which can make coordination simpler than in cities with several separate operators.

Cemeteries and crematoria in Wollongong

Your director books the site. The authority that runs it sets the burial or cremation fee, which is charged separately from the director's own price.

SiteRun byWorth knowing
Wollongong Memorial GardensWollongong City CouncilThe largest site in the council network, at Unanderra, and the only one with an on-site crematorium.
Wollongong CemeteryWollongong City CouncilOne of the older cemeteries in the network, within the Wollongong Memorial Gardens system.
Bulli CemeteryWollongong City CouncilServes the northern Illawarra suburb of Bulli and surrounding areas.
Helensburgh CemeteryWollongong City CouncilServes Helensburgh, at the northern edge of the region the Wollongong network covers.
Berkeley Pioneer CemeteryWollongong City CouncilA historic cemetery mainly holding older family plots rather than new burials.

Local areas

Funeral directors listed under Wollongong typically serve the whole Illawarra, from Helensburgh in the north to Kiama in the south, and inland to Shellharbour and surrounding villages, not just the Wollongong city centre.

WollongongBulliDaptoKembla GrangePort KemblaWarrawong

Cultural and religious

Wollongong's funeral market reflects the postwar migration that built the Port Kembla steelworks, particularly large Italian and Maltese communities who settled from the 1950s onward, with roughly 1,200 current residents born in Italy alone. Institutions like the Fraternity Club at Fairy Meadow remain community hubs for these groups, and Italian and Maltese Catholic funeral customs are familiar territory for funeral directors working in the area.

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Funerals in Wollongong

There are nine cemeteries in the council-run Wollongong Memorial Gardens network. Wollongong Memorial Gardens at Unanderra is the largest and the only one with a crematorium, while the others mainly serve their own local suburb.

Berkeley Pioneer Cemetery is a historic site that mainly holds older family plots. A funeral director can confirm current availability, but most new burials in the area go to Wollongong Memorial Gardens or Wollongong Cemetery.

Yes, Wollongong Memorial Gardens at Unanderra operates the region's crematorium, so cremation does not require travelling to Sydney.

Almost all cemeteries in the Wollongong area, including Bulli, Helensburgh and Scarborough, are run by Wollongong City Council as part of the Wollongong Memorial Gardens network.

Yes, Wollongong has large Italian and Maltese communities dating back to the postwar steelworks era, and funeral directors here are generally experienced with Italian and Maltese Catholic funeral customs.

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Funeral prices near Wollongong

Across New South Wales, the median published starting price for a direct cremation is $3,749, from 107 providers, and half advertise between $2,993 and $4,650. A direct cremation is a cremation with no funeral service. These are starting prices read from provider websites, updated 26 September 2026, so ask for a written quote.

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Common questions about funerals in Wollongong

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There are nine cemeteries in the council-run Wollongong Memorial Gardens network. Wollongong Memorial Gardens at Unanderra is the largest and the only one with a crematorium, while the others mainly serve their own local suburb.

Berkeley Pioneer Cemetery is a historic site that mainly holds older family plots. A funeral director can confirm current availability, but most new burials in the area go to Wollongong Memorial Gardens or Wollongong Cemetery.

Yes, Wollongong Memorial Gardens at Unanderra operates the region's crematorium, so cremation does not require travelling to Sydney.

Almost all cemeteries in the Wollongong area, including Bulli, Helensburgh and Scarborough, are run by Wollongong City Council as part of the Wollongong Memorial Gardens network.

Yes, Wollongong has large Italian and Maltese communities dating back to the postwar steelworks era, and funeral directors here are generally experienced with Italian and Maltese Catholic funeral customs.

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