| Location | Birmingham |
| Age | 55 years |
| Cause of Death | Cancer |
| Date of Birth | 04/02/1937 |
| Date of Death | 19/08/1992 |
| Visitors | 2,397 since 31/03/2007 |
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MOM - IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME
AND ONCE MORE HEAR YOUR VOICE
I'D TELL YOU OUT OF ALL THE MOM'S
YOU'D STILL BE MY NO. 1 CHOICE
My Mom Maureen was a remarkable woman. She didnt lead an extra ordinary life, but she was an extra ordinary person. She excelled in the way she made others feel - happy and secure. That is why she had so many friends. And she was certainly the best friend I ever had. When she died I was acutely aware that nobody else would ever love me as much as she did. Being an only child - she was much more to me, than a mother - she was my everything rolled into one. My mentor. She was a very shy person in some ways - lacking in confidence and independence. She never knew how truly talented or beautiful she was and that was her strength. She also had the ability to teach me the qualities she longed to have herself - which is a mark of a very clever person. She developed Cancer the week I found out I was expecting my first baby. I am sure she stayed alive as long as she did, so she could see Bethany born - and she died a few weeks later. But during that time and throughout my pregnancy she was a mother to the end - protecting me from the trauma's of her illness. As sad as those ten months were, they were also deeply special. I've felt bereft of her company in the many years since her death in 1992, when she was just 55. Missed the adult relationship you have with your parent when you become a parent yourself. Missed what Bethany and my subsequent children should have shared with such a special woman. But since her death, I've also become privy to a deeper understanding of my mother - as a woman. Which often you cant do when your parent is alive. But even so - I would give all I own, for one day with her. To share my children with her, to discuss all that has happened to me over the years since her death. I've had other trauma's to cope with, which I've dealt with - mainly thanks to the courage she instilled in me during my brief 25 years with her. I hope she would be proud of me. Because my proudest feeling is when people compare me to her. I look in the mirror and see her features and mannerisms. I see her in my children. She will never be truly gone. Not in my heart - not in my soul. Not ever. The cord will never be broken.
I love and miss you Mom.
Thanks for everything
Your devoted daughter
Sarah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I KNOW YOUR NOT IN PAIN NO MORE
SITTING HIGH UP ON YOUR CLOUD
I'M GOING TO DO ALL I CAN TO MAKE YOU
VERY PROUD
I'LL NEVER STOP MY GRIEVING
SO I WONT EVEN TRY AND PRETEND
BUT FOR NOW THIS IS GOODBYE
TO MY MOM, MY HERO AND MY FRIEND
For you Mom
Happy New Year. Another without you, but another closer to Home
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For you Mom, with all my Love x x x
NINETEEN YEARS
It's been nineteen long years, since I last saw your face and stroked your hand, the hand - that guided me gently through life's quicksand
Nineteen years since I was left behind to mourn your loss and cope alone, without a Mom to call my own.
You've missed so much - both good and bad. Joyful & sad.
Laugh's galore, but tears more.
Your daughter becoming a woman without her trusty guide.
Without her best friend, by her side.
Your grandchildren growing and showing, that you do live on further
in dreams, smiles & faces. Different generations, just in different places.
Reunited with Dad whose heart was broken in two, when you went to Heaven 20 years too soon - leaving him blue.
But would I trade my God given gift of a Mom for someone I could have had for twice as long. No way - that would have been so so wrong.
For the time I had with you, was filled with joy, laughter & love. Lessons learnt at your knee. For which you never took a fee.
You gave it all for free with good grace, humour & wit.
Cancer didn't make you do a moon light flit.
You gave me your all till the day you died - and in the Years that fell either side. A Mom who taught me how to live, how to die.
And in Spirit - how to fly.
So the lessons go on, the love never ends.
It dont even bend.
Though your physical body is not here
I know now, I had nothing to fear.
Nineteen years ago you left this World.
But you did not leave me.
You live on in memories and in night-time dreams.
All is - as it once was.
All is - as it seems.
Unbroken to the end
A Daughter and her Very Bestest Friend.
Maureen & Sarah Hodson
A Beautiful Heart, for a Beautiful Mom x x x
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Before Love Blooms
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Deep Within A Mother's Heart.
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For my Mom - on Mother's Day
Though Heaven & Earth divide us
And the distance seems a lot
There is a flower that grows between us
It is the Sweet Forget-me-Not xx
Mom - I will never, ever forget you. You were my best friend in the whole world. So grateful for the time we had together. Lots of Love, always from your one & only
For you Mom - on Your Birthday x x
With Love xx
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19 Birthday's without you and it still cuts like a Knife. Miss you SOO much xxx Only a Heartbeat away x
For my Mom x x
I Shall Remember You
I shall remember you for as long
as there are fields of snow
And there are flowers in the ground
with strength to grow.
As long as there are stars above
and moonbeams on the sea,
And just as long as there are songs
of love and memory.
I shall remember you today
and dreams of you tonight,
And look for you tomorrow when
the sun begins to light.
Whatever season, month or year
this much will be the same,
The special sound of joy will be
the mention of your name.
I shall remember you for as long
as there are earth and sky.
And all eternity
may it take to say goodbye
xxMaureenxx
Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free
I’m following the path God has laid you see.
I took His hand when I heard him call
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day
To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way
I found that peace at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss
Oh yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life’s been full, I savored much
Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief
Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your hearts and peace to thee
God wanted me now; He set me free.
xxx
just passing by and had to leave a note, i;ve never left any tributes before but felt i had to so do on this occassion. I've read hundreds of memorials since creating one for the father that passed away 3 years ago yesterday.
Your eulogy was soo touching it says everything i find hard to but into words myself, your mom will be very proud of you.
Take care
Amanda
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