Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Geoff and I went to a funeral today. His brother Barry passed away peacefully last friday.
Barry was 71.
Geoff has 8 brothers and sisters and like a lot of big families when they married they all went their own way and they are spread all over the country so we rarely see them. You know what it's like.
Anyway, we had a phone call last week to say that barry had been rushed into hospital as he was coughing up blood and no-one knew why.
When he arrived at the hospital they examined barry and found he had an ulcer on his liver. This had burst causing the bleeding.
They operated and that in itself was a success. However, after the operation barry was put on a life support machine because he was 'not breathing himself' as they explained to us.
We are not sure if they switched off the machine or whether barry passed away naturally.
So, today we met at Chelmsley Wood for the funeral.
It was lovely to meet them but isn't it a shame it takes a funeral to do this?
We all said the same and we passed our phone numbers around and promised to keep in touch.
I hope we do.
Barry was such a big man (6ft 3ins 22ish stone) that his coffin was actually a square box. Not the normal coffin shape you would expect. It took 6 men to carry him.
He loved Pavarotti, two of his songs were played at the service.
It was a lovely service.
Goodnight barry.
God bless.

3 comments:

Constable Confused.com said...

My deepest regards,

my wife has family all over the country and re-unions are rare. Hope Geoff is alright.

J x

Bernard said...

I am so sorry to read about your loss.
And there's me posting all this stuff about clocks stopping.
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Regards......Bernard

Old Plod said...

Dear Annette, I too was saddened to learn of your loss, especially so soon after losing your nephew Sean in Afghanistan. My thoughts and prayers are with you and Geoff. Warmest good wishes, David.xxx.

PS. I am having dreadful problems with my computer. It keeps turning itself off without warning whether on or off the internet! I think it started after downloading a Microsoft update but cannot be certain. Either that or it has been corrupted in some other way. My computer guru friend will be coming around to try and sort it out for me, but if I disappear off the internet for a while you will know the reason why.