Deceased..........
Last night my mum asked my dad to go and make her some toast. He went upstairs to the kitchen to do as he was asked. He must have fallen over in the kitchen. He bashed his head. A neighbour found him shortly afterwards. He was dead.There are many members of CS who met and knew my dad. Some came over on a lunch from Malta and went round to the villa and met him and my mum.
Other CS members came from other countries and met him - ok, they might have come to meet me but they found my dad more interesting to talk to!
You may be aware that I can't post in forums, but I DO have the email facility if anybody wishes to contact me.
I'll fly back to Malta in the next few days - not sure when the funeral will be but you if you knew him you'll be welcome to come ......the one thing I do know is that he does NOT want any flowers - he has always prefered money to be spent on the living rather than the dead.
Comments (17)
I am sorry to hear that.
Have my heartfelt Condolences.
I dont know what to say except the obvious.
Check your mail (hotmail and CS), dont want to pour it all all out in public. But have to say your Dad was a great guy, I thought of him today when I bought some pringles.
Thinking of you and hope to hear fom you soon xbin.
Hang in there.
X
Maybe I'm nolonger banned - I am allowed to comment on my own blog!
Thank you, CS staff...........
Thank you all who have kindly posted nice things about my father - even those of you who dislike me intensely.
Yes, my father was indeed a gentleman. I loved him dearly, and love all the memories I have of him - there is nothing I can remember bad about him.
For anybody in Gozo/Malta who'd like to 'pay their respects' the funeral has been arranged for 3 p.m. on Wednesday 20th August at the Santa Maria cemetery in Gozo. It's easy to get to - you travel on the main road from Mgarr to Victoria. You hit the ONLY set of traffic lights in Gozo (by Xewkija) and hang a RIGHT - the cemetery is a couple of hundred yards on the left in the general direction of Xaghra.
Please do NOT send/bring any flowers. My father has strongly expressed in his will that he wishes NO FLOWERS - if you have a favourite charity please bung a few cents to your charity in his memory........ he'd appreciate that.
My father was born on 31st January 1919 and was over 89.5 when he died on 14th August 2008 - just happened to have also been my son's 23rd birthday.
He has been living in Gozo since 1970 and retired there in 1973. He enjoyed 35 years of retirement after a very interesting career working all over the world. He met my mother in 1937 when he was a young man of 18 and she was only 13. He took her on dates to the cinema getting one ticket for himself as an adult and one for my mum as a child! They got engaged a few years later and married in 1945 - they were married for over 63.5 years!
My mother is still alive and has just celebrated her 84th birthday. She has been paralysed since January 2005, but really enjoys meeting people and has an excellent memory and a keen interest in the 'world outside'.
My dad is now dead. I'm not the gentleman he was, and I also know that I'm not capable of looking after my mother for 21 hours out of every 24. I hope and pray that I can come up with a solution that ensures that she is well-taken care of for the rest of her life.
I remember feeling very sad after my grandmother's funeral that my dad had not made arrangements for friends and family to meet up afterwards - he just didn't think of it. I hope that anybody from CS who feels they'd like to come to the funeral would also meet up afterwards so that we can remember him and recount a few stories and wish him well with a drink to his memory and many happy thoughts.
Thank you to all of you who have kindly posted comments to this blog.
Best wishes to you all - and I am especially touched and grateful to the kind comments of both lagoona and Jacko, both of whom I have had personal differences.
Take Care Robert..
my sincere condolences to you and your family
My thoughts are with you.