W. LAUDERDALE & SON
FUNERAL SERVICES
The business we know today was started in 1946 on
Askew Road West, Teams, Gateshead
by William Lauderdale Senior – later more widely known as Billy Lauderdale.
The business went from strength to strength over the next 14 years
and 1960 aged 15, Billy’s son – also called William – joined his father in business.
Due to the redevelopment of the Teams area, after 25 years the business relocated to Dunston on Ravensworth Road.
William Lauderdale Snr, known as Billy and his son, known as Bill in the Dunston area – father and son together – cared for families across most of the Gateshead area.
This sound partnership continued for some time until Billy decided to take more of a back seat from the day-to-day running of the business, allowing his son Bill to build good relationships within the local community and with local churches and clergy over the next twenty years.
Bill Lauderdale 1960 – 2014
Fonder Billy Lauderdale 1946
June 1990 Billy Snr passed away aged 69.
Son Bill had to conduct the funeral and lay his father to rest in Saltwell Cemetery, Billy was now reunited with his loving wife Ena, who had died two years previously
In the 1990s Bill’s wife Doris Lauderdale joined the business and soon found she had a great understanding with bereaved families.
Bill and Doris worked together for over 20 years as a loving, caring team, arranging and conducting funerals and caring for grieving people in a wide range of circumstances.
