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Sue would like to thank all friends for their support at this time, and everyone who attended Gary’s funeral and made charity donations in his memory. Particular thanks go to Sue’s mum and friend Carol for being her rock. Thank you to Reverend Brian Rostill for leading the service, and to Lynsey Mallinson and De Gruchy’s Funeral Care for their care and kindness.

Nora and family wish to thank all relatives and friends who sympathised with them in their recent bereavement. A big thank you for all the cards, flowers and messages that were sent and to those who attended the funeral service. A special thank you to Jerry Crow from De Gruchy’s Funeral Care for his kindness and compassion and to Rev Canon David Shaw for a beautiful service, also to Dr Simon Bonn of Cleveland Clinic for his kindness to Mum. A very special thank you to the wonderful staff at L’Hermitage Care Home for their dedication and loving care that is shown to everybody.

Michael and Andrew would like to thank all family and friends who attended Mum’s funeral and for their kind Telephone calls and cards. Many thanks must go to the staff at La Haule Residential Home for taking care of Mum over the past 11 years and for the lovely staff at the General Hospital who kept Mum comfortable in her last days. Thanks also to Steve de Ste Croix and his team at Maillard’s for his help and understanding in dealing with Mum’s last wishes and, finally, thanks to Tony Ward for conducting the service.

Sadie, Natalie, Lisa, Julie, Mandy, Trevor and Paul would like to express their thanks to everyone who attended Phil’s funeral. We would also like to thank Maillard’s Funeral Directors, in particular Steve, for the professional and sympathetic way in which he handled all of the arrangements, and Alicia for the manner in which she conducted the service, even managing to introduce humour to an otherwise very sad occasion. Oh, by the way Alicia, the ‘spoon collection’ referred to the numerous occasions Dad would arrive home from the Day Centre or someone else’s dinner table with a collection in his trouser pocket!! Our thanks also go to the Hospice and District Nurses who attended Dad in his final days, but most important of all, we would like to express our sincerest, heartfelt gratitude to the truly wonderful care staff at La Haule Residential Care Home. The love, kindness, consideration and respect that they treated not just Dad with, but all of the residents, went way beyond being just a job. They looked after them, attending their every need as though they were one of their own family, nothing was too much trouble. Our final thank you goes to all of you who generously donated to Jersey Alzheimer’s Association. This cruel disease is set to become the biggest killer of the 21st century, having more deaths attributed to it than heart disease and cancer.