Finding a date !

I have searched and asked many for a death date for Tony's Uncle Peter. We knew that he had lived in Busselton so while there we thought we would go to the Shire and see what we could find.....as you may have guessed I'm into Family History.
Anyway the Shire said that they had no Peter Mc Gurk on record......gosh where could this man be!!! I had searched Bunbury and surrounding areas to no avail.... as we were turning around to leave the lady at the counter said " Oh if he has been cremated we would not have him on our record" Now I find that most unusual when a person dies he should be on the shire's record but anyway she said go to the Funeral Director in Busselton if he was cremated they will have the record. So with a renewed hope off we went..... But after giving his name and details that we had she too said he was not on their record. Walking away and just getting into the car the lady calls out to us I think I have found him........ yes a miracle!! there he was, and now after a long search I finally have his death date. Which now makes one of Tony's family records complete....So at both places it was at the last moment we were told to try somewhere else and also that the Lady from the Funeral Director's found him. Our search would have ended there without anywhere else left to go .We were very happy...For us it was our little Christmas Miracle .I'm putting this in...so that if you are ever stuck in finding a death date..... you may have to search at the Funeral Directors  !!! I couldn't find him on the BDM for W.A. either....