RIP: Constance Elaine Yvonne Perry 1921 - 2009 Mum
I walked up the stairs and into my room
And drew back the curtains dispelling the gloom.
My eyes took in the glittering starlight,
A silvery moon, ‘twas a wondrous sight
I thought of all that had happened to me
And felt tension leave for tranquillity.
Here my own place in which to lie.
Out there the ordered universe and uplit sky.
The cosmic wonderland about me spread.
The world at my feet, God at my head.
Dear Lord, I pray you let me rest.
Tomorrow when I wake I’ll give my best.
Mum was also the wife of the celebrated author, Colin Perry, Boy in the Blitz, and worked in the War Office during the Second World War.
Mum got what she prayed for " rest " and she died after a long illness lasting almost two years, from a fall at home. We celebrated her life, those 88 years, at St Leonard's Church, Yardley Gobion on Tuesday 29th September 2009, and she was buried on Thursday 22nd Ocotober in the Church Yard.
'and where O death is your sting? The sting of death is victory in Christ Jesus.........'
Elaine was one of the few remaining family relations I had only just got to know in the last four years, if only we could bring back time, to makeup the lost time.
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My deepest sympathy to you on the loss of your mother. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw she was buried in Yardley Gobion. I lived in Potterspury as a child, and used to sing solos in the Congregational Church in Yardlry Gobion every Sunday afternoon. I now live in Canada.
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Elaine united two worlds that had long been separated - her family in the UK and the Wylie's in New Zealand. Elaine and Colin's visits to New Zealand will always be a treasured memory as was catching up with them both in Yardley Gobion. These lasting memories will always keep you near.
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