Epitaphs and Inscriptions

Whether it’s a simple phrase, a poignant poem, or a heartfelt dedication, our memorial inscriptions are designed to express the sentiments you hold close to your heart. We pay meticulous attention to every detail, ensuring the quality of the text is not only beautiful but also ensuring the headstone epitaphs are durable against weathering and time.

We understand the profound importance of finding the perfect words to honor a loved one’s memory, moreso in the time of great sorrow. But you don’t have to face this arduous and emotional process alone. Our epitaphs and memorial inscriptions services are crafted with care, compassion, and unmatched attention to detail, ensuring a timeless tribute that resonates with the departed’s unique legacy and the surviving family’s sentiments.

With decades of experience, we specialise in premium techniques to ensure the inscriptions are etched with precision and the materials stand the test of time.

Once you have decided on the wording you would like, then please refer to our Lettering page for more specific details on font types, or Contact Us to learn more about Larcombe Memorials services.

Below are some examples of commonly used epitaphs that you may use as is or as inspiration, and you can also scroll further down the page to view some images of memorial epitaphs completed by Larcombe Memorials. You are of course not limited by the selections on this page.

• A dear Husband, Father and Grandfather.
• A beloved Husband, Dad and Grandad.
• A loving Wife, Mum and Grandma.
• A devoted Wife, Mum and Nan.
• The dearly loved Wife of (name).
• Our darling Daughter.
• A devoted Son.

• Tender Mother, a faithful friend.
• A friend to many and sadly missed.
• Our love is forever.
• Wonderful was your love for us.
• Love never ends.
• They gave their today for our tomorrow.
• Loving memories last forever.
• He loved and was loved.
• Too well loved to ever be forgotten.
• Love makes memory eternal.
• To live in the hearts of others is not to die.
• Gone fishin’
• A gentle man.
• She loved everyone.
• He touched the lives of many.
• While we have time, let us do good.
• As the bird free of its cage seeks the heights, so the Christian soul in death flies home to God.
• The saddened hearts were healed in knowing the pain of life is over and the beauty of the soul revealed.
• I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.
• Rest, O weary traveler, for with the dawn comes great joy.
• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and loved today.
• If our love could have saved him, he would not have died.
• step softly, a dream lies buries here.
• God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Great love lives on.
• Love is eternal.
• Where there is great love there are always miracles.
• May she rest in peace with God.
• Not my will but thine be done.
• Blessed sleep to which we all.
• Sweet in her ways, observant in her mitzvas.
• Let her own works praise her at the gates.
• Generous of heart, constant of faith.
• Out of sorrow God speaks to us best.
• I know that my redeemer lives, therefor I too shall live.
• He gives his beloved sleep.
• God grant us love…Something to love he lends us.
• Our love goes with you and our souls wait to join you.
• In his will is our peace.
• Trust in God.
• May the peace of the Lord be with you.
• For to this end Christ died.
• I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.
• All things change but God remains.
• God is our refuge and our strength.
• All things to the glory of God.
• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
• Whither thou goest I will go.
• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
• Absent from the body, present with the lord.
• I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
• I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
• I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, there you may also be.
• Neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of My hand.
• Our brief partings on earth will appear one day as nothing beside the joy of eternity together.
• After the night comes the morning, bidding all darkness to cease…After life’s cares and sorrows, His comfort, sweetness and peace.
• But many that are first shall be last and the last shall be first.
• He lived life to the fullest.
• She filled every second of her life with laughter, love and happiness.
• Their greatest peace was found in nature…and those moments spend crossing the next mountain.
• He was filled with a zest for life that never grew old, and kept him eternally young.
• She is not far away.
• While he lives cherished in our memories, he is never far away.
• They loved their Lord with all their heart, with all their mind and with all their spirit.
• A godly man who served the Lord all his days.
• May God be with you and comfort you.
• In God’s care.
• The Lord is my shepherd.
• May heavens eternal joy be thine.
• What we kept in memory is ours forever.
• A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
• Always in our hearts.
• Gone from home but not from our hearts.
• We lived together in happiness, we rest together in peace.
• Love lives on.
• She touched everyone with special love and kindness.
• We miss you.
• A free spirit.
• Our little angel.
• An inspiration to all.
• We love you always.
• With all my love.
• There was grace in her steps, love in every gesture.
• Forever young, forever in our hearts.
• Life is not forever. Love is.
• May she be remembered as she remembered others.
• A life full of years of understanding.
• Of tender heart and generous spirit.
• Peace is thine and sweet remembrance is ours.
• A woman of virtue, kindness and modesty.
• Your patient courage is a beloved memory.
• She graced her family with acts of loving kindness.
• Precious are the memories of (name).
• How beautiful life was to me.
• Her works were kindness, her deeds were love.

• We made a promise till death to us part, but when the time came it broke my heart.
• A little flower lent not given, to bud on earth and bloom in heaven.
• Gone is the face we loved so dear, silent the voice we loved to hear.
• Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.
• God took you from our home, but never from our hearts.
• To all the world just one, but to us all the world.
• Too good in life, to be forgotten in death.
• Always in our thoughts, forever in our hearts.
• Too dearly loved, to be forgotten.
• To live in the hearts of those we love, is not to die.
• Gone are the days we used to share, but in our hearts you’re always there.
• The hours part us, but they bring us together again.
• Memory is a golden chain, that binds us till we meet again.
• His life a beautiful memory, his absence a silent grief.
• What we keep in memory, is ours unchanged forever.
• Gone from our home, but not from our hearts.
• Not lost to memory, not lost to love.
• Loves last gift, rememberance.
• Sweet are the memories that never fade.
• Jesus called a little child unto him.
• Forever with the Lord.
• Reunited.
• Greatly loved and sadly missed.
• Rest in Peace.
• Sadly missed.
• Gone from us but not forgotten.
• Resting where no shadows fall.
• Laid to rest.
• Safe in the arms of Jesus.
• Remembered with a smile.
• At rest.
• Always in our thoughts.
• Requiescat in Pace.
• In God’s keepings.
• Goodnight, God bless.
• Peace, perfect peace.