Dec. 13th, 2013

Thank you

Dec. 13th, 2013 05:22 pm
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I would like to thank all my family and friends for their love, support and condolences over the last four weeks since my father passed away. You have all been amazing, especially my Aunt Lynda and my cousins who only lost my Uncle Stephen in July.

I would also like to thank the Malay and Nott’s & Derby Sherwood Foresters veterans for the honour they bestowed on him with honour guard, standard bearer and the flag for his coffin and the members of the Victory Serviceman’s Club. I know Dad would have been so proud to know he was so loved and respected by his former comrades at arms. It was good to see family we haven't seen in quite a while and to meet some of his friends we only knew by name on the day we said our final goodbyes.

I honestly do not know what I would have done without you all. It’s been extremely difficult I cannot deny that but with the help of my brother and sister we kept mum away from the stresses that have come with dads passing. Stephen was a Godsend going through Dad’s papers and documents and running us all about and has been a fantastic help sorting insurance, pension and other official stuff while I dealt with doctors and registrars and notified all the family and friends and other funerary preparations.

It is going to take a lot of time but we are all moving forward one day at a time. We are learning to cope with the big gap in our lives. Dad hasn’t left us completely, just his physical form, but we still have the memories of our lives with him and we can cherish them just as much as we cherished him.

We found a poem that we liked for use at Dad's funeral and the wording does help.

The poem is “All is Well” by Canon Henry Scott Holland.

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which 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 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 effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but 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!


Rest peacefully Dad l will miss you and l love you.

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