Ten years without my mother
Ten years ago today, my mother died. She was aged 78 – but she had a serious stroke a decade before and her deterioration over the next ten years was terribly sad to behold.
Today, I’m travelling up to Leicester to join my younger sister Silvia and my younger brother Ralph and together we will remember and celebrate her life and all that she did for the three of us.
Mum at her most beautiful and carefree,
in Naples in her twenties
You can read my eulogy to her at her funeral here.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am
A very inspiring and moving eulogy, Roger.
February 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am
From your photos I can see a very strong likeness between you and your Mother. She reminds me very much of pictures I have of my Mum at the same age. There was a definite style to photos of that era – all the girls looked like film stars.