| Location | Manchester |
| Age | 59 years |
| Date of Birth | 19/12/1935 |
| Date of Death | 22/07/1995 |
| Visitors | 12,168 since 08/01/2009 |
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As many of you already know im awaiting a back operation for i have 3 disc and sciactica, Im finding doing all the candles especially when it takes forever or the internet is slow, is leaving me in absolute agony, So it is with sad regret that i will only be doing my angels till after my op.Godbless each and everyone of you who have left lovely pics, poems,candles and gifts, they have meant so much and helped me through some awful low times.I will be thinking of you all and your lovely angels. lots of love to you all. Take care.
Derek sadly died very quickly after a week in intensive care of Legionaires disease. He was just 59yrs. He was a real family man who lived and worked for his family. He was a ambulance officer and he left behind his heartbroken wife Sylvia of 37yrs, 4 children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, inlaws and friends. He was respected and loved by everyone who met him. He was the worlds greatest husband, dad and grandad and we were truly blessed he was ours.
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Miss you more than ever
Dad 2 of the most important men in my life have passed you and my son, but i take comfort that your together. look after each other. love and miss you more everyday xxx
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With all my heart thank you
My brother in law was a realy lovely man,he worked for many years for the greater manchester ambulance service.Derek saved many lives in his work, and also acted as midwife a few times,he married my sister sylvia and they had four children,he was a good husband, a very good dad but also a very good friend to all those that knew him.I my self will never forget what Derek did for me,i was sixteen when my mum died and with out any hesitation Derek and my sister gave me a home.I will never forget you Derek for all the times you were there for me,and yes there were times when we didnt all ways see eye to eye about mini skirts, make up, pop music and getting home a little late,but bless you Derek whilst i called you the vicar i didnt realise that you were looking out for me along with your own children.So Derek i thank you with all my heart for all that you did for me and thank you for caring so much about me when you did my love to you always Derek xxx Lona
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♥ Behind ♥ Your ♥ Wings ♥
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Like a veil being drawn across my heart
With your love buried deep inside
When troubled times are about to start
Behind your wings I hide
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When temptation comes and I know it must
To reveal what's hidden inside
I call to the only one I trust
And behind your wings I hide
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When night-time creeps upon the day
And there's no-one by my side
I close my eyes and with my spirit I pray
It's behind your wings I hide
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Like a veil being drawn across my heart
To heal the wounds deep inside
Your love fills my being in every part
And on your wings I glide.
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♥ Lorraine Thompson ♥
♥ Your ♥ Memory ♥ Is ♥ An ♥ Eternal ♥ Flame ♥ Love Always ♥
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Love everlasting is etched in the sands of time.
~ Sandra S. Corona
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being to timelessness as it's to time ღ♥ღ
being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
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love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
~ ee cummings
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The Evergreen's Rose
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Outside the house beside the driveway is an evergreen,
And two or three times every year a miracle is seen.
A single red rose starts to bud and blossom to full bloom,
In the center of the evergreen facing my room.
Surrounded by the greenery it glows a brilliant red,
A single red rose blooming where no other makes it's bed.
Each time it happens and I see it I just stop and stare,
And wonder with this evergreen how did the rose get there.
I always stand amazed when I am pondering this view,
It always brings back memories of someone that I once knew.
The evergreen reminds me of the people I have known,
But one stands out just like this rose that blooms there all alone.
The evergreen is beautiful like people I have met,
The rose reminds me of someone I never will forget.
The evergreen surrounds the rose with all it's greenery,
But the beauty of the precious rose is all that you can see.
It touches all your senses when the rose is blooming there,
It makes you stop and notice all the plant life everywhere.
Floral you would never see or pay attention to,
Unless the beauty of the rose had it's effect on you.
Sometimes things in life will bring the focus into view,
And make you notice everything as if it were brand new.
It makes you stop and be aware of all the little things,
You notice flowers as they bloom and watch a bird that sings.
He was such a person that this rose reminds me of,
Filled to overflowing with his gentleness and love.
Always with an attitude of being positive,
Never wanting for himself he only knew to give.
He never let the world around him change his attitude,
Like the single red rose blooming in it's solitude.
He knew his mind and heart and nothing could stand in his way,
Just like the single brilliant rose that's blooming here today.
Many times his actions would bring questions from a peer,
Just the way you wonder why the rose is growing here.
But in the end you always knew he'd blossom on the scene,
The same way that this single rose did with the evergreen.
Some people slip into your life so quietly they came,
And just the fact they touched your life, it never is the same.
He touched so many people's lives the way that he touched mine,
He was that rose so beautiful and I part of the pine.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Death is at once
The end of the body’s
Old journey
And the beginning of the soul’s
New journey.
~ Sri Chinmoy
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To Myself
Even when I forget you
I go on looking for you
I believe I would know you
I keep remembering you
sometimes long ago but then
other times I am sure you
were here a moment before
and the air is still alive
around where you were and I
think then I can recognize
you who are always the same
who pretend to be time but
you are not time and who speak
in the words but you are not
what they say you who are not
lost when I do not find you
~ W.S Merwin
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~ Why Walk When You Can Fly ~
In this world you've a soul for a compass
And a heart for a pair of wings
There's a star on the far horizon
Rising bright in an azure sky
For the rest of the time that you're given
Why walk when you can fly?
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
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~ Life ~
By one great Heart the Universe is stirred:
By Its strong pulse, stars climb the darkening blue;
It throbs in each fresh sunset’s changing hue,
And thrills through low sweet song of every bird:
By It, the plunging blood reds all men’s veins;
Joy feels that heart against his rapturous own,
And on It, Sorrow breathes her sharpest groan;
It bounds through gladnesses and deepest pains.
Passionless beating through all Time and Space,
Relentless, calm, majestic in Its march,
Alike, though Nature shake heaven's endless arch,
Or mans heart break, because of some dead face!
’Tis felt in sunshine greening the soft sod,
In children’s smiling, as in mothers tears;
And, for strange comfort, through the aching years,
Men’s hungry souls have named that great Heart, God!
~ Margaret Deland
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You never said I'm leaving
You never said good-bye
You were gone before I knew it
And only God knew why
... A million times we've needed you,
A million times we've cried.
If love alone could've saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still.
In our hearts you hold a place,
No one else will ever fill.
It broke our hearts to lose you,
But you didn't go alone.
Part of us went with you,
The day God took you home.
♥ With Love Angel ♥
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Never and Forever
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I stood by the rushing river,
And watched its eddies whirl,
Where, in its rocky channel,
The rolling ripples curl.
And my heart was sad and weary,
For I mourned a life that was o'er,
And I said, in my soul's deep sorrow,
"Ah! never, nevermore!"
Again I stood by the river,
When years had passed away,
And watched its whirling eddies,
And watched its ripples play.
And my heart was glad within me,-
For I knew, on the other shore,
Once more I should be with my loved one,
Forever and evermore.
ღ♥George Charles Seldenღ♥
~♥~WITH LOVE PRECIOUS ANGEL ~♥~
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Until We're Together Again
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Some believe
A star shining brightly in the heavens
Represents the love of someone they can't see
Others feel
The butterfly dancing in their garden
Is a symbol of a spirit flying free
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But when a gentle breeze caresses your hair
Or you see an eagle soar in the air
Should you smile and remember me in prayer
Oh, I will be there
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There's no need to say good-bye
One day we'll be together
Remember me and smile
I'm in your heart forever
I'll feel the love you send
Until we're together again
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Close your eyes
You'll find me sailing in the sunset
Riding waves of bluest oceans ever seen
Holding hands
Of all the others here before me
My head upheld to hear the angels sing
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I can do all the things I've always dreamed of
I'll be watching over you from above
Don't worry about me because
I brought along all your love
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There's no need to say good-bye
One day we'll be together
Remember me and smile
I'm in your heart forever
I'll feel the love you send
Until we're together again
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It doesn't matter where you are
My love will shine upon you from that star
Like the butterfly, now I'm free
Ascending through the sky peacefully
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There's no need to say good-bye
One day we'll be together
Remember me and smile
I'm in your heart forever
I'll feel the love you send
All the love you send
And you hold on to the love I send
Until we're together again
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We'll be together again?
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� Katherine J. Cochran (BMI
☜♡☞ The Wings That Fly Us Home ☜♡☞
There are many ways of being in this circle we call life
A wise man seeks an answer, burns his candle through the night
Is a jewel just a pebble that found a way to shine
Is a hero’s blood more righteous than a hobo’s sip of wine
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Did I speak to you one morning on some distant world away
Did you save me from an arrow, did you lay me in a grave
Were we brothers on a journey, did you teach me how to run
Were we broken by the waters, did I lie you in the sun
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I dreamed you were a prophet in a meadow
I dreamed I was a mountain in the wind
I dreamed you knelt and touched me with a flower
I awoke with this: a flower in my hand
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I know that love is seeing all the infinite in one
In the brotherhood of creatures; who the father, who the son
The vision of your goodness will sustain me through the cold
Take my hand now to remember when you find yourself alone
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And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens
It fills the endless yearning of the soul
It lives within a star too far to dream of
It lives within each part and is the whole
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It’s the fire and the wings that fly us home
Fly us home, fly us home.
~ Words by Joe Henry, music by John Denver
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The New Year…✿⊹✿
It is winter and the New Year.
Nobody knows you.
Away from the stars, from the rain of light,
you lie under the weather of stones.
There is no thread to lead you back.
Your friends doze in the dark
of pleasure and cannot remember.
Nobody knows you. You are the neighbor of nothing.
You do not see the rain falling and the man walking away,
the soiled wind blowing its ashes across the city.
You do not see the sun dragging the moon like an echo.
You do not see the bruised heart go up in flames,
the skulls of the innocent turn into smoke.
You do not see the scars of plenty, the eyes without light.
It is over. It is winter and the New Year.
The meek are hauling their skins into heaven.
The hopeless are suffering the cold with those who have nothing to hide.
It is over and nobody knows you.
There is starlight drifting on the black water.
There are stones in the sea no one has seen.
There is a shore and people are waiting.
And nothing comes back.
Because it is over.
Because there is silence instead of a name.
Because it is winter and the New Year.
~ Mark Strand ~
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