Graeme Cook Email & Phone Number | Often asked how I became a Funeral Celebrant, my flippant reply is always: “Well, I had the perfect lead-in to being a Funeral Celebrant. I spent 30 years as a Motor Mechanic!”,adding, “I spent the last 9 years of that career working for Australia’s largest Rolls-Royce workshop, for the most part as Service Manager, so I learnt all about grief; because I wrote the bills!” Jokes aside, in that role I did learn the art of honest and accurate recording of details, for Rolls-Royce owners are arguably the World’s most litigious, so every bill had to be prepared in a manner that could possibly be used in Court! The real story though, is this: I had a lady who used to come in regularly to photograph cars for a sales magazine, and who also happened to be a Marriage Celebrant,thoughtfully suggested that I would make a good Funeral Celebrant. It did leave me to ponder at length on all the people I had known and loved, attended their Funerals, and seen them so appallingly represented! I figured that I could do a better job! So, I did a Diploma of Funeral Celebrancy with ‘the College’, and went out looking for work! After some 13 years, and many hundreds of Funerals, I readily describe myself as being ‘a round peg in a round hole’. I love what I do, and I like it to show! A key player throughout, has been poetry, for which it was noticed that I had a talent for, back in Grade 5 at Ringwood State, the same year that my dear little Scottish teacher, Miss Enterkin, gave me my lasting love and respect for words. Rhymes came easy to me, an ideal channel for feelings and opinions. The true power of poetry was the ability to express feelings in a manner that is clear, entertaining, and actually says more, while saying less. With a happy knack of drawing accurate conclusions from limited information, I have many times described situations with both clarity and brevity, conveying anger, grief, laughter, or love, and born of a compassion, understanding, and empathy.

Graeme Cook

Often asked how I became a Funeral Celebrant, my flippant reply is always: “Well, I had the perfect...
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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Graeme Cook’s Location Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Graeme Cook’s Current Industry Allens Minibus Rental Chateau Yering Hotel Self Employed

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Allens Minibus Rental

Fleet Supervisor

2010-04-01 00:00:00 - Present

Chateau Yering Hotel

Night Audit, Part Time.

2006-09-01 00:00:00 - Present

Self Employed

Funeral Celebrant

2001-01-01 00:00:00 - Present

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Graeme Cook is a Often asked how I became a Funeral Celebrant, my flippant reply is always: “Well, I had the perfect lead-in to being a Funeral Celebrant. I spent 30 years as a Motor Mechanic!”,adding, “I spent the last 9 years of that career working for Australia’s largest Rolls-Royce workshop, for the most part as Service Manager, so I learnt all about grief; because I wrote the bills!” Jokes aside, in that role I did learn the art of honest and accurate recording of details, for Rolls-Royce owners are arguably the World’s most litigious, so every bill had to be prepared in a manner that could possibly be used in Court! The real story though, is this: I had a lady who used to come in regularly to photograph cars for a sales magazine, and who also happened to be a Marriage Celebrant,thoughtfully suggested that I would make a good Funeral Celebrant. It did leave me to ponder at length on all the people I had known and loved, attended their Funerals, and seen them so appallingly represented! I figured that I could do a better job! So, I did a Diploma of Funeral Celebrancy with ‘the College’, and went out looking for work! After some 13 years, and many hundreds of Funerals, I readily describe myself as being ‘a round peg in a round hole’. I love what I do, and I like it to show! A key player throughout, has been poetry, for which it was noticed that I had a talent for, back in Grade 5 at Ringwood State, the same year that my dear little Scottish teacher, Miss Enterkin, gave me my lasting love and respect for words. Rhymes came easy to me, an ideal channel for feelings and opinions. The true power of poetry was the ability to express feelings in a manner that is clear, entertaining, and actually says more, while saying less. With a happy knack of drawing accurate conclusions from limited information, I have many times described situations with both clarity and brevity, conveying anger, grief, laughter, or love, and born of a compassion, understanding, and empathy.