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DarienJ

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #30 on: June 15, 2020, 08:08:32 pm »
Yes, everyone who knew my mum loved her

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #31 on: June 15, 2020, 08:32:22 pm »
She must have been a lovely lady as we could tell from the way you always talked about her ((((((((((Jean))))))))))

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #32 on: June 16, 2020, 07:01:30 am »
I could say that about my Mom too Darien, everyone loved her.

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2020, 09:14:42 am »
Then you were blessed too Linda :) I miss her everyday and always will I expect.

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2020, 09:23:02 am »
I was just thinking while resting on the sofa this afternoon that Mom will have been gone 22 years on August 23rd.  Life is never the same after your Mother is gone.  I was blessed for certain! 

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2020, 09:33:17 am »
That's twice as long as my mum and close to the date as well, my mum passed away on the 9th August and dad on the 12th 18 years ago.

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #36 on: June 16, 2020, 08:56:50 pm »
I cannot say my Mum was loved by everyone, she always spoke her mind !!!  She and Ange did not get along very well but it was Ange who took care of her when she was very sick. She was loved by people who asked her to make clothes for them :0 She died Friday 13th October 1989.  Mum was 66 :(  Ange says to this day that Mum waited till Friday 13th to make sure we all remembered and it was 2 days after Frank's birthday too ! !
Dad was liked because he was very sociable in and out of the pubs and with sports clubs.  He was 79 when he died on July 17th 1998. Nearly 22 years now.

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« Reply #37 on: June 17, 2020, 07:44:22 am »
I don't think we realized that your Dad and my Mom died so close to the same time.  I suppose your Dad was popular at least amongst the pub people.  If your Mom told people  what she thought as a rule, then probably she wasn't loved by ALL! She was young to die at only 66.    My Dad has been gone  now for 53 years, a long time.  Darien, I didn't remember that both of your parents died in August.

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #38 on: June 17, 2020, 09:52:39 am »
Your mum was so young Moira, I didn't realise that :( Robert's mum passed away on 4th May 1999, she was only 68 :(

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #39 on: June 17, 2020, 12:37:15 pm »
Robert's Mom was young too, what did she die of......I'm sure I should know.

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« Reply #40 on: June 17, 2020, 09:06:41 pm »
There was 10 years between Dad and Mum dying and he was on his 4th wife by then !  Mum came to NZ to visit us for 6 months in 1986/1987 ( She also flew out of NZ on FRIDAY 13 March )  and it was after that in UK  she was diagnosed as having Carcinoid Syndrome, a new cancer type back then and undiagnosed for years.  She was planning on coming back to NZ to live with or near us. I had her name down for a pensioner flat in Marton.
 I remember when your Dad died Darien as we were back in Marton and staying with Freda and Kit on their farm having come from Dunedin to fix up our renter damaged house !

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« Reply #41 on: June 18, 2020, 08:37:51 am »
I remember when Darien's Dad and Jean died too but I didn't remember when that was, I couldn't connect it with anything.  Moira, did your Mom eventually then die of cancer?  I assume she probably did. 

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« Reply #42 on: June 18, 2020, 09:57:57 am »
Robert's mum had a massive stroke and there was very little that could be done. We went over for her funeral and when I came back, that was when I found the meno board. There was 7 years between my dad and then mum passing.

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #43 on: June 18, 2020, 12:40:36 pm »
...............and I found the meno board a few months after my Mother died.  The room I am in now, I call "the computer room" was Mom's room when she lived here with us.  Tim had a computer downstairs in his small bedroom and after Mom was gone he moved it up here.  That's when he insisted I learn how to email and get around a little on line and I sure did learn and glad I did.  I told him I didn't think I would able to do it but he said YOU CAN and I DID!
It's no doubt a blessing that Robert's mother did not live after a massive stroke, so sad!!

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Re: Just out of curiosity....
« Reply #44 on: June 18, 2020, 09:32:59 pm »
Mum was suffering with the cancer and Ange was nursing her and when she was finally taken into hospital she wanted the doctors to help her die but they can not do that ....officially.  Anyway she died happy to be relieved of the pain after she was given morphine.

 I was telling S Moira's daughter Jessica to teach Moira to use a computer so she can keep in touch with us over here but Jessica says Moira will not try it ! She will not have a phone either ! Moira packed in her nursing career because they have to use computers and she would not learn !!!!!
Good job you learned Linda else life here would be boring.  Right Darien ?   :o ;D ((((((Tim)))))))))