The sombre note has continued at St. Giles this month - firstly with the
funeral of Colin Streeter, who lived in Maisemore some years back and
has family attachments to the village. It was a beautiful and emotional
service. This was followed by the memorial service for Stephanie
Parsons whose brother Stephan arranged the most magnificent display of
flowers that the church is ever likely to witness! He and his helpers
adorned all the windows and pillars with flowers and foliage, some of
the peonies as big as dinner plates and beautiful
perfume from dozens of roses, whilst at the altar , 2 enormous urns
full of various blooms. The service, with 3 eulogies, was an excellent
tribute. I should like to thank everybody concerned who helped
afterwards to clear things away. Later in that week, the ashes of
Cora Ann Gough were interred in a private service.
Let's hope that this sees an end to the sadness at St. Giles as we
look forward to the wedding of Scott Warner and Louise Barter in warm
sunshine; the weather certainly keeping us on our toes with such changes
in temperature of late.
We send greetings to our friends at Deanwood Lodge, many of whom
enjoyed their latest service led by Rev. John, singing along in the
sunshine.
From material submitted by Marnie Mitchell
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