Passing of the Older Generation

**cessna152towser** · 13th August 08, 07:13 AM

Uncle Andy, seen here last September passed away last week, age 91.
He was the last of the older generation on my mother's side. He was actually a half cousin to my mother but we have always been close family due to intermarriages between the two families; indeed he was also a full cousin to one of my aunts. He enjoyed good health until the past few months, when he had begun to suffer weight loss, and heart and kidney failure. He passed away peacefully in his sleep. I travelled to Northern Ireland for the day on Friday to support his widow and son and visited the funeral parlour with his son and then we went along to the church for receiving the coffin when we held a small family service, as I was unable to attend the formal funeral on Sunday due to my responsibilities to Ann back here in Scotland. The thing that cuts me up real bad right now is how God has taken all the older ones within the past five years with no prospect on the horizon yet of being blessed with a new generation of children to ensure the continuance of the family for future generations.

**McMurdo** · 13th August 08, 07:18 AM

Sad news Alex, but I suppose the family can take comfort in the fact that at 91 he had a good life.

**davedove** · 13th August 08, 07:50 AM

That is indeed sad news Alex.

In 2000 we had a big gathering of my Dad's family, where relatives we had not seen in years managed to come in. As we were taking pictures, we expressed the notion that it may be the last time that my Dad's brothers and sisters were all together. Sadly, that has come true as I have lost an aunt since then.

But no one is truly lost as long as they are remembered.