Legacy
Wednesday was a typical English November day, still and dry with a slight mist in the air. It was a good day for a funeral if there can ever be such a thing.
The service had been planned carefully for a double funeral. Our neighbours had died within weeks of each other, after more than sixty years of marriage, and it was their only child’s last gift to them to organise a memorable celebration of their lives.
Lee did them proud, but their lasting legacy is him. He is one of the nicest people I have ever known, unfailingly polite and considerate, with a natural charm and ease of manner and a keen sense of humour, characteristics his three sons have inherited. He and his wife were proud to see their boys carry their grandmother’s casket. She had said that she would be pleased to be going down the aisle again with her husband, united in life and love, united in death.
They were good people, and will be much missed by their loving family and many friends.
RIP Gill and Tony.
That was an atypical funeral on a typical November day.
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