Funeral Order of Service Archive

The Sentences Organ: Chorale Prelude on St. Peter – H. Darke HYMN LORD of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust ever child-like, no cares could destroy, Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.   Lord of all eagerness,… Read more »

MILLIE READ “I go to prepare a place for you. – that where I am you may be also” Today we give thanks for the live of, pay our tributes and say goodbye to someone who was many things, a wife mother and grandmother – as we will hear shortly from George her son, but… Read more »

  Percy Roland Dexter 28th June 1918-4th June 2000.                                         The Church of St.Kyneburgha Castor   11.30.am 14th June 2000.                             The Sentences… Read more »

STUART JAME S HESELTON When a baby dies, we are all affected. A life full of promise and newness is cut short. The joy at having brought forth new life is cruelly extinguished- And no-one feels the pain more than the parents. So it is with baby Stuart’s death, and Lisa and Keith. A whole… Read more »

Les was born into a large Scots family from Kingussie, Invernesshire, on 5th Jan. 1938 – the middle child of the 7 children of George and Jean Spence, and this large close family, with his brothers and sisters, Isabel, George, Anne, May, Margaret and James was to affect him, and his relationship at work throughout… Read more »

Tracey Jane Parker. 13 February 1964-1 December 1999. The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Marholm. 8 December 1999. LORD of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust ever child-like, no cares could destroy, Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break… Read more »

TOBY JARVIS EULOGY   Earlier this week, I stood by the Church gate as the sun was sinking, looking across to Home Farm, thinking of Toby. It is a view that can have barely changed, since 48 years ago, when Toby brought home one Mary East from Longthorpe as his young bride, to start married… Read more »

When Doll first moved to Castor, she was concerned about how she , a London Cockney, would find village life. But with her open-hearted and open minded approach to life, she need not have worried.,,And despite the sadness she had know in life, she always relished life. She relished the view from the house across… Read more »

ARTHUR FRANCIS BRADSHAW EUL I feel that our first hymn is an appropriate tribute to Arthur. Today we commend to God, and say farewell to a gentle, courteous, even self-effacing, man; amn who even in church was quiet, polite, never pushed himself forward, and yet had a gentle but deep traditional countryman’s Anglican spirituality. And… Read more »

BERYL BANKS EULOGY When I first came to know Beryl, I suppose I thought of her as a lovely elderly lady, from an old village family, modest, and desperately proud of her two sons, Clyde and David and their achievements, having been happily married, in their dancing years to Larry, her formerly Scottish soldier husband…. Read more »