The search is now on for a suitable site for the eco-friendly burial area which will commemorate the life of Alexander de Gruchy.
The former managing director of de Gruchy’s Funeral Services was 25 when he was killed on 16 November last year. He was at the controls of a light aircraft when it went down into the sea north of Cherbourg as he was returning to the Island from the UK.
In the years before his death, the de Gruchy family had planned to create a woodland burial site and it was a project which Alexander had been very passionate about.
The burial ground is being planned by the Channel Islands Co-operative Society and de Gruchy’s Funeral Services, with whom the Co-op have merged. If a suitable site of six to seven vérgees is found, and the necessary planning consent agreed, the site would be called The Alexander de Gruchy Woodland Burial Site.
