GardenOfMemories

Garden
of
Memories

THE ROSE
STILL GROWS
BEYOND THE WALL

Near a shady wall a rose once grew
Budded and blossomed in God's free light,
Watered and feed by the morning dew,
Shedding its sweetness day and night.

As it grew and blossomed fair and tall,
Slowly rising to loftier height,
It came to a crevise in the wall
Through which there shone a beam of light

Onward it crept with added strength,
With never a thought of fear or pride,
It followed the light through the crevise's length
And unfolded itself on the other side.

The light, the dew, the broadening view,
Were found the same as they were before;
And it lost itself in beauties new,
Breathing its fragrance more and more.

Shall claim of death cause us to grieve,
And make our courage faint and fall?
Nay! Let us faith and hope receive,
The rose still grows beyond the wall.

Scattering fragrance far and wide,
Just as it did in days of yore,
Just as it did on the other side,
Just as it will forever more.
By: A.L. Frink

Grant Sidney
Loved Son of Spencer and Edith
Loved Brother of Ralph
17 May 1936 - 02 Nov 1938

IN MEMORY
OF
TWO WEE ANGELS
Isabel
Loved Daughter of Donald and Vera
21 Aug 1923 - 21 Aug 1923
Nicole Debra
Loved Granddaughter of Ralph and Lucy
04 Mar 1992 - 04 Mar 1992
Ever in our hearts

An angel wrote in the Book of Life
Our baby's date of birth
Then whispered as she closed the book
"Too beautiful for Earth"

GONE FROM MY SIGHT

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side
Spreads her white sails to the morning breeeze
And starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
She hangs like a speck of white cloud
Just where the sea and sky
Come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says
"There! She is gone!"
Gone where?
Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
As she was when she left my side
And she is just as able to bear her load
Of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me,
Not in her.
And just as someone at my side says
"There! She is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
And other voices ready to take up the glad shout
"Here she comes! Welcome Home!"

And that is dying, my friend...
Author Unknown

Edith Lucinda
02 Oct 1899 - 30 Oct 1990
Spencer Wesley
11 May 1896 - 04 Feb 1966
Loving Parents of
Ralph and Grant

Donald William
02 Jan 1895 - 15 June 1979
E. Vera Isabel
15 Jan 1896 - 13 Jan 1973
Loving Parents of
Isabel, Frank and Lucy

Memory of me
I'd like the memory of me
To be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an afterglow
Of smiles when life is done.

I'd' like to leave an echo
Whispering softly down the ways
Of happy times and laughing times
And bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
To dry before the sun
Of happy memories that I leave
When life is done.

In Memory
of
Loving Aunt and Uncle
Beloved Cousins

Kenneth Lewis
Beloved Husband of Hazel
Loved Father
of Gordon and David
10 October 1912 - 30 Oct 2005

Hazel Maude
Beloved Wife of Kenneth
Loved Mother
of Gordon and David
25 May 1918 - 16 Feb 1981

Gordon Kenneth
Loved Son
of Kenneth and Hazel
Loved Brother of David
03 Nov 1948 - 21 Oct 1967

In
Memory of
Pt. Harold James
4th Bn., Canadian Machine Gun Corps
18 Feb 1898 - 08 Aug 1918
He Gave His Life
For
His Country

Loved Cousin....
You went, it seems but yesterday,
And now by crosses row on row
You linger where the poppies grow,
Not dead, but just away

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep--
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain;
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush,
Of quiet bird's in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night,
Do not stand at my grave and cry--
I am not there,
I did not die.

Francis James
21 Mar 1925 - 14 Jan 2011
Loved Son of
Donald William and E. Vera Isabel
Loved Brother of
Isabel and Lucy