Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A. of Essex

Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A. is a funeral home in Essex, MD. The business provides personalized funeral and cremation services to local families, offering both pre-planning and custom planning options to suit individual wishes and requirements. Staff guide families through the decisions involved in planning a service and creating a lasting tribute. Available services include grief support resources, customized online memorials that include the obituary and any photographs the family wishes to provide, and personal tribute videos produced from supplied photographs and playable at the service or online, with DVDs or digital files also available. The funeral home has partnered with local florists so that family and friends can order flowers directly from the obituary page of the website.

The funeral home has been serving the community since 1936, celebrating life and honoring tradition. The staff is comprised of dedicated, licensed professionals available by phone at any time of the day, any day of the week, with normal business hours running from 8 AM to 4 PM and in-person visits welcomed at the Essex location. Richard Bruzdzinski is an owner and mortician as well as the supervising mortician. He is a 1966 graduate of Kenwood High School and a United States Army Veteran who served as a Sergeant during the Vietnam conflict from 1968 to 1969. After service, he attended the McAllister Institute of Funeral Service in New York City from 1970 through 1971 and became a licensed mortician upon returning to Maryland. Richard is a former president of the Sue Island Fishing Club, a lifelong member of The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a board member of the Ballestone Manor Preservation Society, and has over 47 years of experience as a licensed mortician. James Bruzdzinski is also an owner and mortician with a CFSP designation, and serves as the supervising mortician. He is a third-generation funeral director, an Eagle Scout from Essex's Troop #745, and a 1981 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School. He became a licensed mortician in 1984 after studying at Catonsville Community College and was trained in 2003 as a Mass Fatality Responder, having responded to the Amtrak train crash in Chase, Maryland and serving as Team Leader in Gulfport, Mississippi in response to Hurricane Katrina.

Bruzdzinski Funeral Home, P.A. holds a 4.70 rating based on 15 reviews.