Remembrance Book - Memory Book and Online Book of Remembrance

Rosalie Bester

Born: 5 September 1944 Fochville, South Africa

Died: 18 July 2007 Klerksdorp, South Africa

You can shed tears that I’ve gone
or you can smile because I’ve lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that I’ll come back
or you can open your eyes and see all I’ve left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see me
or you can be full of the love we shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember me and only that I’ve gone
or you can cherish my memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back
or you can do what I’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

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Auntie Rose was the best person I have ever known.
She never got bitter about circumstances,
and was always ready for a joke,
especially when we teased my Mom, her Sister.
I will miss that.

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John Adams

Born: 15 February 1950 Oldham, Lancashire. UK

Died: 10 March 2007 Camden, London. UK

Heavenly Father hear my prayer,
Guide our Father with tender care,
Dear shepherd don't leave him alone,
Love him in heaven, as we do at home.

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Dad, Thanks for being a friend as well as a Father - Tom

John Adams loved nature, and worked as a gardener all his life. He liked nothing more than preparing the ground and watching plants grow tall and strong from the smallest of seeds. He loved watching his children grow too, and took pleasure in them both as children and as adults, and grandchildren too.
Never dogmatic, but always there when needed, he will be sorely loved by all of us who knew him and loved him.

His premature death in an accident, and that of our Mum, Mary Adams,
is a tragedy that we will find it hard to overcome,
but we are fortified that they are inseparably together.

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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We shall remember them.

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