Sussex Select Community Funeral Home

In the fall of 1998, Mitchell Long was completing his funeral service training and apprenticeship. At the same time, Jim Makepeace decided to move on and was seeking a new funeral director to take on the family-owned funeral home that he had opened three years earlier in Sussex.

Mitchell’s dad George Long had recently retired and sold his busy service station/restaurant operation. It had been about thirty years since he had arrived in Sussex as a young funeral director himself. George was ready for a break, but the opportunity to watch Mitchell launch his career was tempting. A partnership with Brenan’s Funeral Homes of Saint John and the growing Select Network of Independent Community Funeral Homes made the package complete. 

So it was that the Long’s launched the Sussex Select Community Funeral Home in January of 1999. 

As George and Mitchell settled into their new environment, each had his reasons to be happy with their situation.

“I’m pleased to have an opportunity to work here at home and, of course, to work with my dad,” noted Mitchell. His father, looking back over his career in the Sussex area, was happy to return to Funeral Service. "I always found it very satisfying to help people who were going through a difficult time. I’m grateful for the chance to do so once again, particularly in a family business.” 

The Sussex Select Community Funeral Home has quickly established itself in the community drawing on the deep roots and long-standing tradition of service for which the Longs are known. Sussex Select Community Funeral Home offers a full range of services from traditional at-need to preplanning, cremation and grief support from their modern dignified facility, which includes three comfortable parlours and a 160 seat on-site chapel.