Death of Our Matriarch
This morning we heard the sad news that Louise's Great Auntie, Kathleen Vatcher, passed away peacefully last night at the age of 96. She was a wonderful lady whom it has been my great privilege to know for the last 24 years. During that time she has been a grandmother to my wife and her sisters, their own parents and grandparents all being deceased. She has been a source of counsel and of wisdom as well as the link they desperately needed to the history of the family and a great source of stories of the youth of their parents. Auntie Kath loved family and was a wonderful entertainer. She was amazing with our children and I thank God that she has been part of our, and their lives. I feel most especially grateful that she got to meet Mary. Mary at eight months and Great Auntie Kath at 1152 months! It is always a great sorrow to lose someone so loved and who has been a part of the fabric of your family for so long, and yet there is great peace in the knowledge of a life wel...