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It was John's dad's funeral yesterday, he was 99 on February 10 and died on the 9th of march.

It was a humanist service as he and the family were not really religious.

It was lovely,if a funeral can be described as such, a lot of personal things were talked about one being how he had met his wife who had sadly died before I met John. He had been sent on a message from work by his boss to his home, he knocked on the door and Dolly who was helping her sister to black lead the grate answered it, and Ted took one look at her smudged face and fell in love with her. I've been told at her funeral Nat King Cole's When I Fall in Love was played.

At Ted's funeral John's son Chris wanted to share his memories of his grandparents about how he had loved to go for his Sunday dinner and to play in the lovely garden with all the beautiful flowers and how safe he had felt
and when he finished speaking we listened to Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World.

His death certificate said he died of old age. He was a lovely man.

Dear Johngirl, sorry to read of your sad news.
Indeed funeral services can be lovely, especially when it is read out what people have achieved through their lives. It really does help you to come away with some happy memories.

My kindest regards to the both of you.

Reminds me of a funeral attended by some 20 members of our rugby club for a club member, one request was with a piper 'Scotland the Brave' to be sung,we didn't realise how many verses there were, well we started, after two verses the crematorium staff gentle ushered out the family. [The next Funeral was waiting down the drive.] we soldiered on, faces appeared at the exit door, we soldiered on, the family started returning with some guilty looks, we carried on singing, eventually we finished 'Scotland the Brave' the embarrassing thing was that the family wouldn't stop thanking us.