YVONNE BEARDON 4th February 1953 - 12th April 2024
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Whether the weather be
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Tuesday 30th April 2024 at 1:20pm |
OPENING MUSIC
Dire Straits - Why Worry
Baby, I see this world
has made you sad
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
I'm not much of a public speaker but we're not paying 200 pounds for a celebrant so you will have to take this service as it comes, warts and all, a little unorthodox.
Hello, this is a celebration of my Mums life Yvonne Beardon also
known as Yvonne Hewitt Born 4th February 1953 Died 12th of
April 2024, Aged 71.
My Mum loved literature and reading especially Stephen King books and she also liked to recite poems. Now we will listen to one of the first poems she recited as a very young girl.
By Stephen
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POEM
I'll gi thee a cuppa
tea, if tha comes ont' reight day,
As recited by Yvonne as a young girl at a Gala in Huddersfield.
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POEM (NOT INCLUDED IN THE SERVICE)
THE GREEN EYE OF THE LITTLE YELLOW GOD (J.MILTON.HAYES)
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MUSIC
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
As requested by Yvonne herself. (She also requested "The Witch is Dead" but that one has been declined!)
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EULOGY
At family get togethers and parties, Mum would always find a way to make it memorable. But lets be honest here, not always in a good way. But that was just Mum, if she wasn't stealing the show doing a Tina Turner tribute dressed in bin liners, she'd be rubbing some poor bugger up the wrong way for her own amusement. I think we have all inherited some version of this warped sense of humour Mum had. I'll sometimes crack a joke that's probably crossed some lines, but it amused me, and that's all that matters at the time, I'm pretty sure Mum had the same mindset here.
Mum had a few hobbies and interests, she always loved photography, rarely did she not have her camera when we were on holiday or on day trips. She's left us with hundreds upon hundreds of photos from our childhood. Trips to the seaside, Storrs Mill Wood with the motorbikes, holidays, gatherings. The list goes on and we can look back at many of these trips and holidays. She especially enjoyed going on holiday to Cornwall. One of her favourite places was Perranporth where she has been many times and this will be her final place of rest.
Most of her working
life mum was a nurse. Prior to this however she worked in
Radiology at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, she also worked on
the River Don cruise boat which enabled us to get free
cruises up the Don. Yep, that was thing back in the 80's. As
a nurse she worked at Tickhill Road Hospital, The Northern
General and Nayar Practise in Edlington. She occasionally
described her nursing as dealing with the great unwashed.
The nursing colleagues that I have spoken to speak quite
highly of her, and I'd like to thank those that are here
today for attending. She loved her Grandchildren Sam and Jake very much and was very proud of the men they have become. Mum was an excellent source of downtime for us as she often took Sam and Jake away, not just for days out, but weekends, holidays. There were all kinds of stories upon their return, and the trips were all the more enjoyable because of how laid back Mum was. I think she probably at times still thought it was the 80's and Sam and Jake were enjoying being given a freedom they didn't get at home so much. But that's the beauty of being a Grandma, you can let them stay up late, feed them what they like when they like, generally doing the opposite of their normal routine. Grandma was cool.
By Mark
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VIDEO TRIBUTE
In Homage to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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CLOSING MUSIC
Not Goin' Home Anymore by Burt Bacharach
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"I'm not crazy, I'm just colourful"
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