[Magdalen] Prayers please

[Ann Markle]

My prayers are with your family, Roger. When my mother became infirm and
subsequently died, relief came first, and the grief later. Now I miss my
"well mom" more than at the time of her death.

Ann
The Reverend Ann Markle
Buffalo,  NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 4:51 PM Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers, Roger
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 14, 2022, at 3:37 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
>
>