In the fall of 1998 Mitchell Long was just completing his funeral service training and apprenticeship at about the same time that Jim Makepeace made a decision 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 own 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 that the Longs are known for.

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 parlors and a 160 seat on-site chapel.
 

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