This site is dedicated to the memory of May.
May was born in Calderbank, Scotland, on January 04, 1923 and passed away on 15 June 2014 in York, where she spent the final year of her life. She is much missed and will always be dearly loved by her daughter Margaret, and by her wider family and friends. She was the beloved wife of the late John Ferguson, who died in 2004.
She is much loved and will always be remembered by all her friends and family.
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Sent by Cruse Bereavement Care on 16/06/2014
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland
Candles
To my darling Mum,
It is now Christmas Eve and this is my second Christmas without you. I miss you so much, and Dad too. I have just been watching Carols from Kings, with tears rolling down my cheeks because it was what we all used to watch together as soon as I arrived up in Scotland for the holidays. I was thinking too of ten years ago when you were here with me in the house, and two years ago when you were here in Minster Grange and we had a lovely Christmas Day together. I still miss you so much and think of you every day, but it is so hard to be all alone at Christmas, with no family left. I have my darling little cats, however, and that means I am not alone. They have some nice
Christmas presents and I hope they will have fun with them tomorrow. I wish you and Dad could see them. I hope that somehow you are both together and that you are looking down on me and knowing that am doing the best I can without you. It is still not very good, as I miss you and love you more than words can say. Happy Christmas, my dear little Mum.
All my love,
Margaret xxxxxx
Lit by Margaret on 24th December 2015
To My darling Mum
It is one year today since you passed away, and I sit here in tears with my two faithful little cats, Esme and Trudi, beside me. I love you so much, and not a single day has gone by when I have not thought of you. My life is not the same without you, and yet I know I need to be strong and try to go on with life and make your proud. Today I am not strong, though, as I just keep reliving this day last year when you left me. My dear, dear Mum, my little bird. I love you so much. xxxx
Lit by Margaret on 15th June 2015
Dear Mum,
It is Sunday 14 June, and so it is a year ago on the Sunday evening that the hospital rang to tell me you had just passed away. I had been with you most of the day, but had come home to feed the little cats. I have been thinking of you all weekend, and have not been able to do anything properly as my heart is so full of sadness. I sat on your bench in the park on Friday, and felt close to you. Your little laburnum tree has its first leaves and even some blossom, and one branch is reaching right up to the sky, in hope of new things and with a burst of new life. It makes me happy to see it every day. Dear Mum, I love you so much, and cannot believe I have been without you for a whole year.
Lit by Margaret on 14th June 2015