[Magdalen] Alan Chionh's funeral

[Jon Egger]

My grandfather (a John with the h) died in 1923 when my dad was 6 months
old. He and I share the same birthday, but he was born in 1881.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Claudine Chionh <anglican at claudinec.net>
> >Sent: Jul 20, 2016 11:58 PM
> >To: Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >Subject: [Magdalen] Alan Chionh's funeral
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> >My uncle’s funeral will be held on Thursday, 11am Pacific time – that’s a
> few hours from now?
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> >I’ve just sent off my contribution to our family’s eulogy, a first for
> me. And on Tuesday I made initial inquiries at the Melbourne cemetery where
> my grandparents’ ashes are interred, to start the process for accommodating
> Uncle Alan here and having a memorial service for his Melbourne family and
> friends.
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> >This is going to stay with me. I’m 40 and have barely lived, and my
> parents’ generation has started to die off.
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> I was 45 when my father died, but only 12 when his father died in 1955
> (anniversary coming up) I was 53 when my mother died at 94. My three other
> grandparent died before I was born in 1940 and 41 and 1931. My oldest
> grandfather was born in 1853 and his father was born in 1810 so we have a
> wide generation. I am the youngest grandchild of Ulrich and Margaret
> Carolan Milord. The next youngest grandchild and my god father has to be
> about 85. I haven't heard from him in about 20 years but he inherited the
> construction business and now his son and grandchildren operate it  (I
> hope--My grandfather and his first cousin started it in the 1890's or so)
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> Joe
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