Whiffey's online service

[Lakitu]

Hello,

Whiffey’s funeral service is being held today and his daughters would like an online service to coinside.

You are invited to share your own memories of him.

The service starts at 12.45 prompt and the order of service is as follows:

Opening music – Piano Concerto 21, Mozart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RLwqxqp0A />
Welcome and Ministers remarks

Poem “Miss me but don’t let me go” to be read by his youngest daughter, Ellen.

When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me,
I want no tears in a gloom-filled room,
Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little – But not for long
And not with your head bowed low,
Remember the love that we once shared,
Miss me – But let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take,
And each must go alone,
It’s all a part of the Master’s plan
A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick of heart
Go to your friends that we know,
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds
Miss me – but let me go.

Music – Wonderful Land, The Shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJVbzswhjyY&feature=related />
Eulogy: Read by his brother

Music for Reflection: Beethoven – ‘Moonlight Sonata’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cFEHM9yMw />
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[dothawkes31]

Lakitu how are you?

[lf201]

Thanks to those who have left kind messages here. The funeral service went as "well" as could be expected and hopefully Dad is at peace. We hope that Dad's online friends felt involved in saying goodbye, we just didn't feel it appropriate to blend his offline life and his online life by inviting ABers to the cremation service because he generally didn't mix the two when he was alive. We hope you understand and we hope that you will think of him fondly from time to time.

For those that can't help but start a ruck at any opportunity, maybe you'd like to just stop and use the time that you would otherwise spend writing inappropriate posts to contemplate the character flaws that lead you to behave like spiteful children when you are supposed to be adults? I am increasingly glad that Dad was a wind up merchant here. I hope that he left some of you spitting with rage with his antics at times and that he sat there at the big dining table in the back room where he kept the computer laughing until tears ran down his cheeks.

God bless you Dad and bless his AB friends too.

[4getmenot]

But in a way those are the kind of posts he liked :-)

[TheEqualizer]

Take care, Laura x, and thanks for coming on.

[ummmm]

I was at a funeral yesterday the same time as your Dads....so I was thinking of him as well :-(

I agree with 4get.....he use to love the abuse and would moan that all we'd have left to talk about was the weather and what we might be cooking for dinner.

[jackthehat]

lf201 - I wasn't able to be here yesterday as I was pacing hospital corridors fretting over my Dad who was undergoing major surgery.

So in some way, I suppose we were both sending prayers and concentrating on our fathers, at the same time.
I am in the happy position, today, of still having my Dad; and I am all too aware of how easily they can pass through that door where we cannot follow.

You have my sympathy and my admiration.

I wish you continued strength and the ability to move forwards. Whiffey would be so terribly proud of you.

[anneasquith]

i was so sad when i returned to AB and he wasnt around one of a few you made me giggle. i knitted him tammys in yellow and purple.