| Location | Glasgow |
| Age | 84 years |
| Date of Birth | 22/12/1922 |
| Date of Death | 14/11/2007 |
| Visitors | 1,424 since 06/02/2008 |
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IN MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MOTHER SARAH ABOTT BOYD HOUSTON MURPHY ..KNOWN TO ALL HER FRIENDS AS SADIE
..BUT TO HER SON JIM & DAUGHTER BETTY .IT WAS MA !. AND MA WE WILL NEVER EVER FORGET YOU ..ON THAT
DARK HORRIBLE DAY ON WEDNESDAY THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER 2007 ..YOU SUDDENLY PASSED AWAY .AND YOU COULD
SAY MA! THAT I DIED WITH YOU THAT DAY .. THESE ARE SOME MEMORIES ABOUT OUR MUMS LIFE ! MY MOTHER
SARAH AND HER TWIN SISTER ISABELLA WERE BORN IN LATE DECEMBER 1922 .. HER TWIN SISTER ISABELLA
DIED WHEN SHE WAS ONLY TWO AND A HALF YEARS OLD AND SO MY MOTHER LOST HER TWIN SISTER AND ALWAYS
THOUGHT IN HER LATER YEARS HOW THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSE FRIENDS AS ALL TWINS ARE .MY MUM
SARAH JOINED THE BROWNIES AND GIRL GUIDES AS A CHILD . THEN WHEN SHE LEFT SCHOOL IN 1936 SHE
STARTED WORK AGED 14 AS A TRAINEE TAILORESS IN THE TOWN IN GLASGOW . DURING THE WAR YEARS SHE
SIGNED UP TO JOIN THE W.R.A.F .BUT DUE TO HER BEING IN THE MUNITIONS IN ROLLS ROYCE IN HILLINGTON &
BISHOPTON . THIS WAS REGARED AS A RESERVED OCCUPATION ..AND SHE MISSED OUT ON HER R.A.F CAREER
..SHE MARRIED IN 1957 AND WAS WIDOWED 6 YEARS LATER IN 1963 ..SHE WAS A WIDOW ALL OF THE 45 YEARS
UP UNTIL SHE DIED ..HER THREE GRANDAUGHTERS .SHARON/SANDRA/JENNIFER/ALL MISS HER ..AS DO HER FOUR
GREAT -GRANDCHILDREN .EMMA/JACK/MARC/AND BABY STUART ..I AM JIM .SARAHS SON AND CARER AND I MISS MY
MOTHER TERRIBLY ..AS THE HOURS .DAYS .WEEKS..AND MONTHS GO BY .IT SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY WE LOST
YOU AND THE EMPTY COLD FEELING WILL NEVER GO AWAY FROM ME . I ALWAYS LOVED THE LAST FOUR MONTHS OF
THE YEAR LEADING UP TO YOUR BIRTHDAY IN DECEMBER MA ! HOW CRUEL THAT I LOST YOU MA WHEN I HAD ALL
YOUR BIRTHDAY AND XMAS PRESENTS READY FOR YOU AS ALWAY'S . OH MA HOW I MISS YOU SO MUCH .I
STILL EXPECT YOU TO COME BACK TO ME .. AND WISH IT WAS ALL JUST A HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE . BUT SADLY
FOR ME ITS NOT . A WORLD WITHOUT YOU WILL NEVER BE MY WORLD .YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND .MY MOTHER.
MY EVERYTHING .AND ALL THAT WAS GOOD GENTLE & KIND .AND YOU MEANT THE WORLD TO ME .WHEN I WATCH
YOUR FAVOURITE COMEDY{ NEVER THE TWAIN}. I LOOK OVER AND EXPECT TO SEE YOU LAUGHiNG WITH ME AS
ALWAYS MA .BUT SADLY NOW THERES NO ONE THERE BUT ME AND THE COLD REALITY HITS ME AS IT DOES EVERY
MORNING WHEN I WAKE UP TO A SAD EMPTY HOUSE .WHEN I THINK OF HAPPINESS I THINK OF YOU MA AND WITHOUT
YOU WITH ME ALL THE KINDNESS FROM MY LIFE IS GONE FOREVER.I AM ALL ALONE IN THE HOUSE MA AND ALONE
I WILL BE TILL I DIE ! THEN MY GLORY TO SEE YOU AGAIN IN HEAVEN WILL BE MY ETERNALL PEACE ..TO ME
AND BETTY MA ! YOU WILL ALWAYS BE OUR KIND GENTLE DECENT & LOYAL LOVING MOTHER WITH THAT LOVELY
CHEEKY SMILE & GOOD KIND NATURE YOU HAD .CONSIDERING ALL THE PAIN YOU ENDURED ! WE WERE THE LUCKY
ONES TO HAVE A LOVELY MOTHER WHO WAS ONE IN A MILLION LIKE YOU MA .. AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY
WHEN I YOUR SON JIM..WILL SEE YOU AGAIN IN HEAVEN AND WE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE TOGETHER .THIS TIME
FOREVER ..I LOVE YOU MA AND MISS YOU EVERY SECOND OF THIS SO-CALLED LIFE I HAVE LEFT . MY LIFE HAS
ENDED ON THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER 2007 ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT !..IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE WHAT IS LEFT OF
ME NOW MA ! YOU WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED AS YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU MEANT TO ME . YOU WERE MY WORLD AND
ALL MY WORLD HAS NOW GONE . AND NOTHING CAN NEVER EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN WITHOUT YOU WITH ME .
YOU WERE NOT JUST PART OF MY LIFE MA ! YOU WERE MY LIFE AND ALL THAT I LOVED AND CARED FOR . I WAS
THE LUCKY ONE TO HAVE YOU WITH ME FOR NEARLY 46 YEARS . AND ONLY WISH I COULD HAVE HAD ANOTHER 46
YEARS WITH YOU MA! FAREWELL FOR NOW MY WEE ANGEL MA .I HAVE AT LAST PUT ON YOUR SONG MA THE GREEN
GREEN GRASS OF HOME . THE SONG WE PLAYED AT YOU FUNERAL .THE SONG YOU ALWAYS LOVED . IT WILL BE
FOREVER YOUR SONG MA . YOU WERE MY TRUE LOVING GIFT FROM HEAVEN YOU KNOW I WILL BE WITH YOU .TODAY
IS SATURDAY THE 14TH NOVEMBER 2009 .IT IS TWO YEARS ON SINCE WE LOST YOU MA . I CAN NEVER OR WILL
NEVER ACCEPT YOU HAVE GONE .YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE ME
I KNOW MY HAPPY DAYS ARE YET TO COME WHEN WE WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN MA .
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A Peek Into Heaven
Copyright 2006 Callie Sanders Thornton
Just one little peek into heaven,
Is all I'm asking for today.
I just want to know how she's doing,
And heaven seems so far away.
Is she playing on the clouds with angels?
Is she laughing and running today?
Does she miss me?
I guess only she knows.
Oh why does heaven seem so far away?
If you just let me look for a moment,
To catch a glimpse of her sweet smiling face,
I promise I won't try to take her,
I know, she's in a better place.
Just one little peek into heaven,
Is all I'm asking for today.
I just want to know how she's doing,
And heaven seems so far away...
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♥ It May Be The Last ♥
It may be the last
time spent with you
is like sand in the hour glass
slowly fading away
every minute I touch your face,
every second I hear you laugh
it echoes in my mind, it may be the last
every time you make me smile,
I lock it deeply into my soul
every night I wish upon a star
hoping you’re wishing on mine
for I fear our star is fading,
I am afraid to blink for one minute
fearing you will disappear
I'm afraid to release you from my mind,
it is the reminder of you I have left
If the only way I could be with you forever
is in my dreams,
then I will sleep for eternity
my heart clings to you, not yet realizing,
you're already gone.
(Author Unknown)
✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞
When Great Trees Fall
(Maya Angelou)
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.
✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞•✝•♥•✞
♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~ ♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥~ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥~ღ♥~
♥ Peace My Heart ♥
♥ Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
♥ Let it not be a death but completeness.
♥ Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
♥ Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
♥ Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
♥ Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
♥ I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light your way.
♥ Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and philosopher ♥
♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~ ♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥~ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥ღ♥~♥~ღ♥~
On Angel Wings
On angel wings you do fly
On angel wings into the sky
On angel wings i do cry
Because those angel wings took you away
On angel wings the heralds sing
Is there no such lovely thing?
On angel wings you fly away.
I will see these angel wings again someday
When i am old and my time has come
On angel wings I will fly
Until I'm holding you once again
Smiling on angel wings.
Troy Nichols
Gran/Great Gran
To Gran,
We all miss you and we all send our love.
From Sharon, Sandra, Jennifer, Emma, Jack, Marc, Stewart and wee Adam.
xxx
TWO YEARS TODAY MA
THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR WITHOUT YOU MA .
I KNOW I WILL NOT BE HAPPY TILL I AM WITH YOU . I KNOW IT . AND I KNOW YOU KNOW IT TOO . MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD WILL ALWAYS BE YOU MA . I WILL BE FOREVER LOST WITHOUT YOU THE BEST MUM IN THE WORLD . FROM YOUR BROKEN HEARTED SON JIM XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
~ Snow ~
(Tessa Wilkinson)
The snow arrived unannounced.
It overwhelmed everything.
Changed the landscape so it was unrecognisable.
No one was prepared.
My grief feels like that snowstorm.
I feel changed, weighed down by the burden.
Trying to negotiate the new environment around me.
Not knowing where I am going.
Looking for familiar landmarks.
I feel cold and miserable and ill equipped in this new place unvisited before.
But I know in time the snow will melt and return the landscape to some semblance of normality.
And I know in time my grief will diminish and I will find my way forward again, back to a world that I recognise, changed, but familiar.
Spring does always come after winter and hope will return.
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Magic Of A Rainbow
I'll never see a rainbow
That I won't think of you;
Though days seem bleak and dreary
The sun is shining through.
A symbol of God's love fulfilled
In beauty, hope and grace;
A rainbow is a mirror
Reflecting His own face.
It arches o'er the mountains
With Heaven its domain;
Its brilliant colors wakened by
The grayness and the rain.
Now may I see the rainbows sent
To ease my broken heart,
Promising His healing love,
Shine through when teardrops start.
Miraculous, magical rainbows,
Blessing the sadness with peace;
God gently smiling and touching,
Bidding the sadness cease.
(Peggy Kociscin)
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ❤ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
on this day of remembrence .
today ma as the country remembers all who served in the wars . i think of you ma . my grandpa sam who served in the kings own scottish borderers from 1900 to 1918 he served on the boer war and in the 1st world war in the british expeditionary forces in 1915 in the somme. your brother bobby my uncle and grandpa sams son who served in the royal navy on h.m.s salamander whoes ship was attacked . your brother alex who was in the warwicksire yeomanry and was a desert rat . uncle sam who was in the army in india. my dad who was in the royal enginers and was wounded in italy . i remember them all ma . most of all i remember and love you ma and think of you on this day as i will on saturday the 14th november when it will be two years without you my angel . i am and will forever be lost without you ma and you know it . your loving son jim xxx
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