[Magdalen] Prayers please

[Marion Thompson]

How very sad, Roger.  May she rest in peace and rise in glory.  May Ian be
comforted in his grief.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 at 15:58, Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My prayers….
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 2:37 PM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > Of your charity please pray for my sister-in-law Margaret Stokes who
> > died this evening. She was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease five
> > years ago and for most of that time has been cared for at home, mostly
> > by my brother Ian with some support from carers coming in daily. A
> > live-in carer started in February this year when my brother was
> > persuaded to agree to this, a great relief to him and the family of
> > three daughters who all live some distance away. They were born on the
> > same day and celebrated their Golden Wedding in July with a concert in
> > their parish church where Margaret continued as PCC (Vestry) Secretary
> > for a while even after the disease started limiting her. Her brain
> > remained sharp at the Wedding celebration she was able to greet people
> > and communicate through an iPad where she could spell out words which
> > were then turned into speech recorded by her eldest daughter.
> >
> > While Ian said that her death is a relief he will feel the loss after a
> > long marriage and, sadly, he will not even have the relief of faith in
> > this having turned away from the Church long ago for reasons I do not
> know.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > --
> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
>