- Lee Funeral Home offers personalized burial services, ensuring that each ceremony provides a meaningful and dignified farewell.
- It has been popular for hosting Kenya’s powerful and elite class for many years.
Lee Funeral Home was founded by John Stuart Lee in 1987, and it was Kenya’s first funeral home.
Lee was born and raised in Kenya until 1963, when his family relocated back to the United Kingdom (UK).
While in the UK, he joined the men’s police force and worked with medical practitioners.
Lee had been in the main police force in the UK and had worked for the coroner’s office in a hospital, where he said in a previous interview that he had been dealing with pathologists and undertakers every day.
Because of Lee’s background, he was asked by people in Kenya to take care of funeral arrangements for their beloved ones, and he would do that out of the holding room of Nairobi Hospital.
He started working at Nairobi City Mortuary and at the Nairobi holding room.
The City Mortuary was in a dismal state, and the people working with Lee did not want to go there themselves, so the idea to start the home came to him.
“When I returned to Kenya, I was not pleased at the bad condition of the city mortuary,” he said in a past interview.
Lee Funeral Home has been a tenant of Nairobi Hospital for many years.
Lee Funeral Home services
Lee Funeral Home offers personalized burial services, ensuring that each ceremony provides a meaningful and dignified farewell.
It has been popular for hosting Kenya’s powerful and elite class for many years.
The mortuary has also played a vital role in hosting politicians and the wealthy class, including some of the most influential of Kenyan bodies.
Lee Funeral Home charges
Lee’s funeral charges include body collection of approximately 5,000 with a daily storage fee of 3,000 per day.
Further, body washing and dressing cost about Ksh5,000, with coffins ranging from Ksh35,000 to Ksh130,000.
Besides, if you need jaguar hearse services, you will need to pay at least Ksh130,000.
Other services have different charges depending on the demand.
Former presidents of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, prominent individuals such as the late Senator Mutula Kilonzo, Former Cabinet Secretary of Education Magoha, George Saitoti, and Joseph Nkaissery, key businessmen such as Jacob Juma, Njenga Karume, and Bob Collymore the former Safaricom CEO, are some of the prominent persons that were hosted at Lee.
