General Chat

My OH cousin in USA has just lost her fight with kidney cancer. She was in her early sixties and leaves behind two girls and two grandchildren plus sibling brothers. Her funeral is Saturday in Pulaski Tennessee where she will be laid to rest with her Mum & Dad and two brothers in the family grave.
Her Mum was the younger sister of my MIL who went to the USA in the early 1920,s
We met her & her Mum in the 1960.s when they came over to visit and it was the first time my MIL had seen her sister in 40plus years.
So Mary-Toby nee Spears Bless you and may God grant you peace,hope you are now with your MUM & DAD and your grandparents and Auntie and you are all having a right chin wag!!
Shirley & Michael

thas very sad,
send my thoughts to all concerned

Shirley, I am so sorry to read this, it's always so sad to know a loved one has had to suffer to the end, but I hope Mary-Toby rests in peace now, free from suffering, pain and all that goes with the dreadful illness, cancer.
I hope happier memories are helping to comfort her family and friends in Tennessee.

You are like me, you picture people being greeted by loved ones gone ahead and a welcome party being in progress, I always imagine my mother there with her famous sausage rolls or a cake and a cuppa, she never let anyone leave our house without they had been fed!

I am glad you had a chance to meet with Mary-Toby and her Mum and that they had the opportunity to come back to the UK to visit, albeit a long time ago.

Lizx

Dear Shirley and Michael

Hello

I am very sorry to hear this news.

Sending you caring and healing thoughts.

Take gentle care
Very sincere wishes
xx

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Thank you Liz
Our thoughts have been with her siblings and children today as she is laid to rest ,She died at her daughters home in Texas but was being brought home to her family in Pulaski for her final resting place,
Thank goodness over all the years contact was never lost with her Mum and now with her siblings. We did meet her brother Dan & his wife in the 1980,s when they made a tour home to England and then to Southern Ireland to the paternal family home. Grandad was a Carey from Killarney.I remember meeting them and they were so pleased to meet MIL and took with them some precious family pictures of the Irish side including a VERY formidable picture of the grandma.#
I have the Irish 1911 census with MIL aged 6 living with her grandparents, apparently MIL was sent to Ireland cos her parents couldn't find lodgings/rooms that would take children !!
Mum often told us of her time in Ireland going to school without shoes AND going out at night to the field to toilet!! cos the cottage didnt have any sanitary facilities!

I've offered a Prayer for her.

Thank you Cassidy and all of you that have offered their prayers for her .It is appreciated,We are sad we cant support her family in person at this VERY sad time It doesnt seem possible that she has passed being so much younger than us ,but guess its all part of Gods rich pattern for all of us,

So sorry to hear your sad news
My condolences to you both and all the family
Prayers for her and all her family x

Dear Shirley and Micheal,
I am so sorry to hear your sad news.
Bless her, and the image you gave to me of the family all getting together was wonderful.
I do hope there is a lot of truth in it as that would give a lot of people including me, a lot of comfort.
It is a dreadful and wicked disease and the sped that it sometimes moves at is shocking, I'm thinking of my poor mum (d.1983).
God Bless,
Deanna XX

Thank you Deanna
truly these cancers are so very wicked in how they attack. we lost our dear dad in 1975 from prostrate cancer and the way this silent crap!! encroached on our dear dad was devastating,
My MIL too developed bowel cancer as did her dad .
So seems my mils sisters daughter too has succumbed to cancer too ,makes you wonder if there is some genetic predisposition in families to cancer

yes Shirley, they are beginning to tell us that there might be a connection.
Well god help us all.
I have had the bowel cancer and seem to be fine up until now.... 2001... so I've been lucky...... so far.
Deanna XX

it is sad news my sympathy to all concerned, my friend had big op for cancer last year and now has it some where else ,no op but trying radiotherapy god bless her she was already ill before all this so any prayers would be appreciated x

Prayers for her too tonight Gertrude Frances.
Bless her.
My BIL has prostrate cancer and has started his radio therapy, bless him.
Good night to all and stay well.
Deanna X

deanna i pray all ok for him trudy x