Goodbye darling lady

A funeral service amidst the festive season is never an experience one should have to endure. A time when, all around one, families are joined together in celebration reinforces the loss, particularly when it is the Matriach of the family. Six individual siblings remembering a life well led, the trials, the tribulations, the experiences; joy amongst the considerable sadness.

A large family with children, six in number, grandchildren and great grandchildren, voices raised as one to herald the passing of life from one dimension to the next. Beautiful music, a fitting eulogy, a tribute to remind one to remember the beloved deceased; floral tributes befitting of the deceased's love of flowers and a flood of sadness and tears that befit the passing of such a treasured lady. Her final resting place with her husband, off to waltz in the heavenly kitchen, as many a moment was spent in their earthly home. 

Those having flown in from across various waters, are homeward bound, and those more local, all with heavy hearts that only time will heal.  "Death leaves a heartache difficult to heal; love leaves sweet memories no one can steal" (Headstone, Ireland, 1889).

And can it be that, in a world so full and busy, the loss of this creature makes a void so wide and deep but the width of eternity can fill it up! (Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870).