On Wednesday 25th July my darling mum Jean died in Hereford Hospital. She had been ill for the last year but we'd all hoped for so much more time.
We are all devastated. But also amazed - how could one person have so many close friends?
If any of those friends who knew her would like to get in touch with me off line then I can give you details of the arrangements for her funeral.
If any one would like to make a donation in her memory, then it would be wonderful if you were to make a contribution to either:
Cancer Research UK
or
The Macmillan Renton Appeal for Herefordshire
I'll be back here again when I can
Simon
10 comments:
Simon
I as so sorry for your loss.
My sincere condolences
Jules
Simon,
Sorry to hear that you have lost your Mum.
Peter
We want you to know that you are all in our thoughts and prayers. Jean was one in a million and we were privileged to have our lives touched by her. We remember her kindness to us all and especially the time she spent with Andrew. We have been looking at some of the old photos and reminiscing about Bristol and our memories of those days. We know we will join the many who will miss her and will remain grateful for having known her. Over the next weeks we will put together a CD of photos for you. Happy memories……
With all our love the Morris and Whistance families xxxx
Jean gave me these words in 1991...
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other
that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way you always used. Put no difference into your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we always enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow in it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval somewhere very near. Just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is past; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
dear simon,
i am so sorry to here about your loss of the most importent thing in your life.
thinking of you.
love jessica xoxox
Thank you all so very much.
And Caroline - you won't be surprised to learn that mum wanted that piece read at her funeral,which I was proud to do yesterday.
Thank you for those lovely words Caroline. You may want to read my tribute to mum elsewhere on here. She had a picture up in her study of Andrew painting a picture aged about 7 - funny to think of him as 25 now and flying aeroplanes! Get in touch if you want, I haven't moved!
O
Our loss is nothing to how the three of you must feel at losing such a special Mum with so much more life to live. She was very proud of the three of you, and rightly so. She was a special person to all of us and will be missed by so many friends. I have lost a very dear friend.
Thinking of you all and will keep in touch
With love Annette
Thankyou Annette. I'm in the flat in Cornwall now - lots of happy memories of mum here.
Caroline - thanks for the lovely CD of photos. O gave them to me this weekend xx
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