Got a text from my brother David today reminding me that it was on this day twenty years ago that our Dad died.
I had forgotten.
But what is extrordinary is that it was also on this day, but last year, that Síle’s Dad died .
They share an anniversary even though it is nineteen years apart.
My Father , who was christened Walter but always went by the name of John, was born in 1915 and died in 1990 at the (what I now think of as) tender age of 75.
Síle’s Dad, Con, was born in 1911 and so would have reached his century if he could have lasted until next Spring.
Both of them would have loved it here in France.
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Petra
on July 22, 2010Joe Moore’s three-year anniversary is tomorrow. May they all rest in peace…
Martin
on July 23, 2010All The Fine Old Men.
Siobhán
on July 29, 2010Ar shlí na fírinne:
On Sunday last I was on the M1 going towards Belfast [a trip to Ardgillan Castle] and thinking of how I was stuck on the M50 last year and did not make Síle’s dad’s funeral.
My father died on August 23 in 1983 — Peter’s dad died on that day in 1974. [Peter’s dad was known as Den, never by his given name.]
Martin
on July 30, 2010Extraordinary that both Fathers also died on the same day.
It seems that July and August are dangerous months for Grandads.
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