Update March 25, 2020

Dear Friends and Families

Effective at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2020, all funeral homes must operate under the newly issued Executive Order #107 of the State of New Jersey.  As the purpose of this Executive Order is to curtail the community-spread and provide for adequate social distancing, all residents are ordered to remain in their residences and not gather publicly. All public funeral gatherings, viewings or ceremonies therefore should not be conducted in any funeral home, place of worship, cemetery or crematory until further notice. Only next-of-kin will be permitted to privately identify, participate in a non-public viewing and/or abbreviated service and witness the final disposition (if the individual cemetery or crematory permits).

Thompson Memorial will do our utmost to creatively assist our friends and families through their grief which has been compounded by these necessary restrictions.

Next-of-kin, those not subject to quarantine, may make arrangements either in the funeral home or by telephone or other communication with the funeral home.

Please understand that we are at the start of a new norm, a norm estimated to last eight weeks, and so we do not fully know when the true surge of COVID-19 spread will be felt in each of our lives.

We wish you all well and we are here for you in your greatest time of need.