Bereaved - In memorium
In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died.
May his katra Rest In Peace.
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Birthday memories ...
e2aa - Somehat similar to what happened last year, four years seems to have passed in a brief flash and this morning I felt the loss very keenly.
E2A - This morning I awoke to feelings that the last three years seem like yesterday, not that I slept particularly well.
[This is a very personal sense of loss and I am not decrying all the suffering and deaths from the pandemic, quite the opposite]
I typed my first version of this before dawn on 7th Jan 2022, deleted it and tried again.
It would have been his 103rd birthday on 23rd March 2022 (1919 to 2019) and I doubt he would have managed to get to 104 [23rd March 2023] ...
Father's Day in the UK on 18th June 2023. Always a sad day, I miss the opportunity to send himself some bad esperanto in an humourous card.
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this links to an image
www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/47955110
in my photos entitled "CAS - esperantist"
(which was in the Ipernity Frontpage and What's Hot group on 3rd March 2019)
My wonderful father has died. His heart finally wound down this morning at about 0315-20 on 7th January 2019.
He managed 99 years 9 months and 15 days.
I'm trying to remember all the very many good times, but I'm having a hard time through my tears.
At least he went peacefully, just slipped away.
I had been called in by the hospital, and I'm so glad I stayed overnight, with time to say goodbye.
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Funeral details:
13:30 at the Crematorium, Bangor, North Wales and afterwards at the Russell Tea Room, Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog, North Wales.
The In Memorium collection will be for the Middleton Railway Trust, Leeds.
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It was my birthday yesterday [6th September] and that made me miss him all over again.
My mother's birthday would have been on 29th September [ had she lived beyond 1982, she could have reached the grand age of 97 this year ]. I miss her as much as I miss my father.
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19th June 2022 & 20th June 2021 - It is Father's Day in the UK today. Seems to have hit me rather harder than I expected. So grieving a bit more than the usual.
What I've missed most is the chance to send him a silly card and some bad esperanto to cheer him up.
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54 comments
Stormlizard said:
He had a god innings, only 2½ months short of the Centuy.
John.
Bee Orchid said:
Maeluk said:
StoneRoad2013 replied to Maeluk:
Just starting to find the happy memories again
Jenny McIntyre said:
StoneRoad2013 replied to Jenny McIntyre:
Parents always go too soon, even when they've had a good innings. My mam died when she only 58, in 1982. Sometimes I am reminded of her and miss being able to tell her things.
Mickey fez said:
Peggy C said:
Put your hand there -- you will feel him.
Peggy
StoneRoad2013 replied to Peggy C:
You are quite right, I'm currently populating the hole he's left with my happy memories of him.
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