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George H. Hewell & Son Funeral Homes, Inc. has 2 locations, listed below.

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    Business ProfileforGeorge H. Hewell & Son Funeral Homes, Inc.

    Funeral Director
    Multi Location Business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    1 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    George H. Hewell & Son Funeral Homes, Inc. has 2 locations, listed below.

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      Location of This Business
      4140 University Blvd S, Jacksonville, FL 32216-4317
      BBB File Opened:
      4/27/2011
      Years in Business:
      90
      Business Started:
      1/1/1934
      Business Started Locally:
      1/1/1934
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Business Management
      • Mr. George H. Hewell II, President
      • Ms. Susan D. Hewell, Vice President
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. George H. Hewell II, President

      Customer Contact

      • Ms. Susan D. Hewell, Vice President

      Customer Complaints

      1 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      04/24/2023

      Complaint Type:
      Delivery Issues
      Status:
      Unanswered
      My father passed away on March 4, 2023. Hewell and Sons funeral home took care of the arrangements. I paid them $85 for them to get me 8 death certificates. I have emailed and called serveral times due to not receiving the certificates. I called again and was told they were mailed to me on April 5, 2023. Today it is April 21 and I have still not received the certificates. I called them again and emailed them and all they say is they were mailed. I even asked if they would track they package to no avail. I had to order some online due to the fact I can not get insurance, retirement or VA benefits for my mom without them. I would like to get the $85 back that I paid the funeral home for the certificates.

      Customer Reviews

      1 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Susan J

      1 star

      02/15/2024

      If you want a compassionate, helpful, caring funeral home, this place is NOT it! Please read before you spend $15k. The funeral director, ***** wouldn't approve service time for our loved one before meeting in person. He couldnt meet with us for 3 days creating stress not knowing how advise family who needed to book a flight. I think it was $$. "In person meeting with *****, we didn't have a good feeling. He had nothing prepared, we sat in silence for him to gather many pieces of papers,didnt offercondolences, the atmosphere was cold. ***************-wrote the contract 4 times-he kept making mistakes. I asked him what would be under the casket and he stated nothing but the ******, stating they dont have drapes for offsite funerals. ***** was pushing us to buy ***** flower to cover ******. The day before the funeral he came up with a drape like he was doing us a favor. The servcie was closed casket but a few relatives wanted to see our family member prior to closing. Hewell&Son advised us to have family ready to view at 10:00. ***** and team arrived late. Without going into detail, our loved one did not look presentable! I feel like this goes back to poor service. The next day, I called ***** to see who sent a spray & found out we were missing two arrangements ***** said they delivered to the funeral home when they delivered other arrangements. I called ***** at 10 that morning-left a voicemail.No response so I texted at 7:30pm to which he replied flowers weren't his responsibility. In that same text, he told us there was flowers at the funeral home that was delivered late and we needed to pick it up. Sad that we had to call him there was a flower arrangement was sitting at the funeral home. When the death cert. arrived, I called ***** ahead of time to tell him we were on our way. Upon arrival, he tells us there was error so he would have to send for an amended death cert. You would think he would have reviewed the death cert. BEFORE he reached out to us.

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