Our people
Our experienced team at Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors will treat you with kindness, respect and professionalism. We will take the time to listen to your wishes and gently guide you through the funeral process before, during and after the service.
Our funeral directors and arrangers will work with discretion and empathy to ensure arrangements run smoothly, so you are able to remember and celebrate the life of your loved one positively in the way you choose.
Meet the team:
Ian Sommerville
Area Development Manager
After leaving school Ian enlisted in the Royal Marines and served in Northern Ireland, the first Gulf War and Kurdistan. After 14 years’ service he moved to the IT industry working as a trainer before promotion to the Product Manager overseeing development, support, sales, implementation and Account management. Ian then became the North American Sales Manager for a company designing and selling high-end architectural ironmongery helping to secure and implement several high-profile contracts.
After moving back to the Midlands 6 years ago Ian began his career in the funeral industry and joined Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors in March 2017.
Ian has 3 children and enjoys sport, music, reading and socialising with friends and family.
Victoria Fallon
Funeral Directors
Victoria has always wanted to be a funeral director from a young age and joined Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors in 2016. Victoria previously worked in the care sector which has helped her support families in her role as a funeral Director.
Victoria takes great pride in helping families at their time of need to make their loved ones send off one that they deserve.
Victoria also likes to try and make anything possible and will try to uphold the more unusual funeral requests she receives as she feels that a befitting send off for a loved one helps greatly with the grieving process.
Joanie Hanna
Funeral Arranger
Joanie is a mum of 4 children, living in Coventry. She has working within the care sector all her life and decided that she wanted a career change as she had gone as far as she could within Care. She joined Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors in April 2017 and wants to progress and further her career in the funeral industry.
What she likes most about her job is helping the families out in their time of need and helping to make things run as smoothly as possible at this time, taking the pressure off the families and other loved ones.
Tribsa Pyatt
Funeral Arranger
Tribsa is Birmingham Born. Having worked within the Funeral profession previously Tribsa joined Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors in December 2017.
Tribsa enjoys her work stating “Helping families at the most difficult time of their lives knowing you have provided a professional and quality service which is tailored to their family makes my job rewarding”.
Out of work she enjoys Traveling and going on adventure with her family.
Kayleigh Hughes
Funeral Arranger
Kayleigh started working for Thomas Bragg in 2016 and has vast customer service experience from previous job roles in estate agency and hospitality. The thing she enjoys most about her role as an arranger is looking after families and helping them through what is a very difficult time in their lives. Kayleigh holds a music degree and has achieved grade 8 for singing.
Amy Duffy
Funeral Arranger
Amy joined our team in January 2018 after working for another funeral directors since 2010.
In her role as a Funeral Arranger, she enjoys supporting families whilst helping them plan their loved one’s final journey.
Amy enjoys spending time with her two children. In her spare time, she likes travelling and socialising with friends.
Chris Clark
Funeral Arranger
Chris was born in Coventry in 1991. After leaving school at 16, he went on to work as an Funeral Administrator. After four years of working between part and full time, he later went onto become a Funeral Service Operative and served within the Coventry, Leamington and Warwickshire areas and later expanded into Solihull and Birmingham.
Having gained a lot of experience as an Operative, he began to learn to arrange funerals and provided office cover for numerous branches within the company. He was also involved in the coordination of the diary for numerous branches organising vehicles and resources.
Four more years went by and at the age of 24, he went on to become a Funeral Director over three branches based within the Solihull and Birmingham districts and served families throughout various communities, including Coventry, Leicester and Warwickshire.
Chris joined Thomas Bragg & Sons Funeral Directors in June 2017 and is currently working as a Funeral Arranger and Administrator at the Shirley branch.
In his spare time, Chris enjoys running, cycling and spending time with Family and Friends.
