In 1993, Fred and Shain purchased all of the shares of M.J. Stoddart Limited and took over from Mr. Charles Stoddart. For the last twenty seven years, the continuing success of this fifth generation business has been achieved with a great deal of help from many part time employees, past funeral director, Tammy Duffy.
In 2013, Shain became the sole owner of the Stoddart Funeral Home after Fred retired from the industry after dedicating his time to the bereavement industry for over 40 years. Shain continued to serve the community with the out most professionalism and engaging in the community to offer quality service for the next 7 years.
In 2020, after long discussion with his wife and family, Shain decided to retire after dedicating his time to the funeral home for over 25 years. Shain made the decision to sell his shares of the funeral home to Linden Mackey, after discussions of keeping the funeral home locally owned and operated.
This funeral business is rich with history and the many families that have known the Stoddart family for all those generations have continued to allow the Stoddart Funeral Home to look after their loved ones.