Gone, but not forgotten ...

Today would have been my mother's 89th birthday. She died in 1999. Our relationship was never an easy one, she'd had a rough life and endured a bad marriage 'for the sake of the children' - a decision which has certainly left its scars on my brother and I. She believed that 'family' should stick together, no matter what, and she was a fierce defender of us, of my children and of her own father and mother - though more than five minutes in her father's company would produce an argument ...

Rest in Peace, Grace Eleanor Frances Cox, nee´Heron. 11 Feb 1925 - 21 Oct 1999.