Thomas Brand

18TH OCT PLEASE READ.... THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN KEEPING MY DAD OUT OF THE DARK WHILE
I WAS GETTING MY HEAD TOGETHER AND ALSO THANK YOU TO ALL THAT HAVE BEEN LIGHTING CANDLES FOR MY
MOTHER IN LAW HILDA RODGERS WHO PASSED AWAY ON 2ND OCT WITH CANCER IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO LIGHT HER
A CANDLE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO AND KEEP HER OUT THE DARK TOO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH XXXXXXXX



DAD YOUR THE BEST AND I LOVE AND MISS YOU MORE THEN EVER XXXX


21ST FEB 2009 CHANGED EULOGY BY IRENE XX I,VE CHANGED IT BECAUSE ITS A STORY ABOUT MY DAD WHO IS
SADLY MISSED BY ALL .....THOMAS BRAND..... WAS BORN ON 7TH NOVEMBER 1937, HE WAS THE SON OF THOMAS
BRAND WHO SADLY LOST HIS LIFE ON 4TH NOVEMBER 1943 IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHERE HE SERVED AS A
ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER ALSO SON OF EDITH GERTRUDE BRAND,WHO ALSO LEFT THIS WORLD FAR TOO SOON MY DAD
LOVED HIS MUM VERY MUCH,THOMAS ALSO HAD 2 SISTERS BARBARA AND JUNE,MY DAD THOMAS BRAND MARRIED
SYLVIA GALLOWAY,DAUGHTR OF THE LATE MAY AND ALBERT GALLOWAY, MY MAM AND DAD HAD 4 CHILDREN
BARBARA,TRISHA,EDWARD AND IRENE (ME)AND THERE PARTENERS GRAHAM,KEVIN,PAULA AND ALAN,THEY LIVED DOWN
CARLISLE GROVE HULL, THOMAS WORKED AS A CIVIL ENGINEERING FORMAN FOR EASTIES UNTILL HE COULD NOT
WORK ANMORE DUE TO HIS DISABILITES WERE HE SUFFERED EPILEPSY FROM THE SHOCK OF LOOSING HIS MUM WHO
HE LOVED SO MUCH,WHICH LED TO MY DAD HAVING HIS LEG AMPITATED,CAUSED BY MY DAD HAVING A FIT AND
FALLING INTO A GOAL FIRE, WHERE MY DAD WAS FOUND BY MY BIG SISTER BARBARA, WE MOVED ONTO GILDANE
ORCHARD PARK HULL THEN AFTER A FEW MORE YEARS MY DADS HEALTH GOT BAD DUE TO SUFFERING A HEART
ATTACK,WE THEN MOVED INTO A BUGALOW DOWN WELLINGTON LANE HAS MY DAD WAS COMFIRMED TO A WHEELCHAIR
THE BUGALOW WAS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MY DADS DISABILITIES WERE HE LIVED VERY HAPPY FOR MANY YEARS,
THOMAS HAD 17 GRANDCHILEN, BARBARAS KIDS JONATHAN,GRAHAM,GARETH,MELAINE ASLO LITTLE ANGEL
ALAN,TRISHAS KIDS SARAH AND SHAUN,EDWARDS KIDS VICKY,KELLY,AND RAE,IRENES KIDS (ME)TAMMY,BECKY BUT
MY DAD ALWAYS CALLED HER BY HER FULL NAME REBECCA,ALSO GEMMA,DANIEL,THOMAS,EMILY AND JACK,ALSO
THOMAS HAD 7 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN BEFORE HE DIED WITH ANOTHER 2 BEEN BORN SINCE AND ANOTHER 2 ON THE
WAY,THOMAS TOOK PRIDE IN A FEW THINGS LIKE HIS COINS AND STAMPS,THOMAS LOVED HIS FAMILY VERY MUCH
AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR ANY OF THEM THE THING WE MISS THE MOST IS DAD BEEN SILLY PULLING FACES AND
JUST BEEN HIMSELF AND THE KIDS MISS ALL THE SONGS THERE GRANDAD SANG TO THEM ,THOMAS LOVED TO GO ON
THE FERRY TO FRANCE AND AMSTERDAM WITH IRENE (ME) AND MY HUSBAND ALAN AND ALSO HIS SON EDWARD AND
HIS WIFE PAULA,THOMAS THEN DEVELOPED COPD,WHICH AT FIRST NEVER STOPPED HIM FROM GETTING ON THEM
FERRIES BUT THEN THINGS GOT WORSE WHICH THEN CAME TO A POINT WHERE HE HAD TO STOP TRAVELLING, THOMAS
LIKED GOING FOR A DRINK HE USED TO DRINK WHISKY AND WATER BUT THE BEST DRINK OF THEM ALL WAS BRANDY
WITH LEMONADE AND HE ALSO DRANK MILD OR HALF OF LARGER HE WENT IN A FEW PUBS TO MANY TO NAME LOL BUT
THE MAIN ONES HE WENT IN WAS SWAN PUB ON BEVERLY ROAD BUT THAT CLOSED DOWN HE WENT INTO STATION
HOTEL ON BEVERLY ROAD HE ALSO USED HOLE IN THE WALL ON SPRING BANK,THOMAS LOVED GOING OUT FOR HIS
SUNDAY DINNER IN BANKS HARBOUR JUST AT TOP OF HIS STREET ,THEN IT GOT TO A POINT A FEW YEARS BACK
WERE DAD NEEDED OXYGEN TO HELP HIM BREATHE BETTER WHICH EVENTUALLY GOT WORSE TO A POINT WHERE DAD
WAS IN AND OUT OF HOSPITAL WITH COPD HE BATTLED SO BRAVEY FOR A FEW YEARS JUST SO HE COULD HAVE MORE
TIME WITH HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS, DAD GOT RUSHED INTO HOSPITAL EARLY MARCH WERE HE SHOWED US ALL
THAT HE WAS GETTING BETTER ONCE AGAIN THERE WAS EVEN THINKING OF MOVING DAD ONTO A WARD ON MONDAY
10TH MARCH BUT THEN IT ALL TURNED WRONG DAD TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE HIS HEART COULDNT TAKE ANYMORE
THEY PUT DAD TO SLEEP TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING WRONG AND THATS WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT OUR LOVELY
AND WONDERFUL DAD HAD... HAD A HEART ATTACK AND THAT MORE THEN HALF DADS HEART HAD SOPPED WORKING
THEY WAS KEEPING DAD ALIVE BY DRUGS THE DOCTORS TOLD US THAT OUR DAD WONT COME OFF INTENSIVE CARE
AND THAT THERE NOT EXPECTING HIM TO WAKE UP AND THAT WE MIGHT HAVE TO TURN HIS LIFE SUPPORT MACHNE
OFF NOWAY NONE OF US WAS WILLING TO MAKE A CHOICE LIKE THAT BUT THEN MY DAD PROVED THE DOCTORS WRONG
AGAIN AND THEY EVEN MOVED DAD FROM INTENSIVE CARE TO H.D.U WERE HE BATTLED AND BATTLED WE NEVER LEFT
DADS SIDE HE KNEW THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE ANYONE COULD DO FOR HIM BUT HE STILL KEPT FIGHTING IT WHAT
A MAN ALL THIS COSS HE DIDNT WANT TO LEAVE HIS FAMILY WELL WE DIDNT WANT TO LEAVE HIM TOO SO WE ALL
DID SHIFS 24/7 LOOKED AFTER DAD... CARED FOR HIM AND EVEN FED HIM DAD COULDNT SWALLOW AT THIS POINT
BUT STILL KEPT GOING FOR US ... WE FED DAD WITH ICE LOLLYS THATS ALL HE WANTED BUT THEN IT GOT TO A
POINT WHEN HE COULDNT EAT THEM BUT YES DAD KEPT FIGHTING IT.. BUT MY SISTERS BIRTHDAY WAS COMING UP
AND WE JUST WANTED DAD TO SEE OUR BARBARAS BIRTHDAY DAD HAD THIS HEART ATTACK ON THE 10TH MARCH MY
SISTERS BIRTHDAY WAS ON 15TH BUT DAD WAS STILL HERE HE SAW MY SISTER BARBARA ON HER BIRTHDAY DAD
STILL GOING AND FIGHTING ON THE 16TH BUT IT WAS MY TURN TO DO THE SHIFT I AGREED I WOULD DO IT ON MY
OWN SO I DID BUT THEN THINGS DIDNT LOOK RIGHT DAD WAS REALLY FIGHTING IT WITH HIS MASK OFF THEY KEPT
ASKING HIM IF HE WANTED THE MASK BACK ON DAD JUST KEPT NODDING TO SAY NO I RANG MY HUSBAND ALAN IN
TEARS HE SAID DO YOU WANT ME TO COME UP I SAID YES WHEN ALAN GOT TO HOSPITAL THEY WAS JUST PUTTING
DADS MASK BACK ON I WAS SAT AT MY DADS SIDE HOLDING HIS HAND WITH TEARS ROLLING DOWN MY FACE WE CAME
HOME WHEN THE NEXT PERSON GOT THERE FOR THE NEXT SHIFT BUT A FEW HOURS LATER EARLY MORNING OF THE
17TH MARCH WE ALL GOT CALLED IN WE GOT THERE THEY WANTED TO TAKE MY DADS MASK OFF WHICH THEY DID AND
AFTER JUST A FEW MINUTES OUR DAD PASSED AWAY ON THE 17TH MARCH 2008 AND WE ALL MISS HIM DEARLY HE
WAS THE VERY BEST MAN IN THE WORLD AND WE LOVE HIM SO MUCH HE FOUGHT AND FOUGHT TO STAY WITH US BUT
HE LOST HIS FIGHT BUT WE THANK OUR DAD SO MUCH FOR FIGHTING TO STAY WITH HIS FAMILY
OUR DAD WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS...DAD YOU ARE THE BEST EVER AND WE REALLY MISS YOU SOOOO MUCH
AND WE LOVE YOU MILLIONS XXXXX
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Gone from this world but not from our hearts
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THIS IS A POEM FOR OUR DAD WHO IS LOVED AND MISSED SO MUCH .......THINGS HAVENT BEEN THE SAME SINCE
THE DAY GOD TOOK YOUR SOUL AWAY I,M LIVING THROUGH IT BUT I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE EVERYDAY I WANNA
SEE YOUR FACE, THEN MAYBE MY HEART WILL SMILE AGAIN I,M NOT SAYING I,M UNHAPPY BUT WITH YOU IT WAS
AS IF MY HEART WERE GOLD BUT YOU DAD,WERE MY TREASURE SOMEONE I LOOKED UPTO AND FOR REASONS NO ONE
CAN EXPLAIN BUT GOD, YOU WERE GONE. NO ONE LIKES TO TALK ABOUT IT, THAT NIGHT TURNING INTO A RAINY
DAY I STILL WONDER HOW MUCH THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF YOU WERE HERE.YOU WATCHED ME GROW UP
WITHOUT SEEING PHYSICALLY,I HOPE YOU LIKE WHO I,VE BECOME,BUT I ALSO KNOW THE KIND OF PERSON YOU
WOULD WANT ME TO BE I WISH I COULD JUST CALL YOU AND ASK FOR YOU TO COME HOME BUT YOU ARE IN A PLACE
THAT WAS ALWAYS JUST THAT SOMETIMES I,D WISH TO GO WITH YOU, THE PAIN IS JUST TOO EXTRAORDINARY AT
TIMES, I REACH OUT AND CALL TO YOU, AND EVEN THOUGH I CANT HEAR YOU I KNOW YOUR LISTENING YOUR GONE
BUT I REMAIN A PART OF YOU,THERES A PART OF YOU IN ALL YOUR CHILDREN,EVERYONE MISSES YOU SO MUCH,BUT
THIS IS HOW YOU LIVE THROUGH US,I QUESTION MY FUTURE AT TIMES, BECAUSE I DONT KNOW WHERE TO GO, BUT
I TRUST YOU TO BRING ME THERE. ALL THE MEMORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS GIVES ME ALL THE REASON AND MORE TO
SAY THAT I,M PROUD TO HAVE A DAD LIKE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A PART OF MY LIFE XXX
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°♥° WE LOVE YOU °♥°
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DAD YOU ARE THE BEST DAD IN
WORLD AND WE REALLY MISS YOU


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my heart split in two
one side full of memories
the other died with you.
I often lay awake at night
while all are fast asleep,
and take a walk down memory lane
with tears upon my cheek.
I hold you tightly within my heart
and there you will remain,
life has gone on without you
but it will never be the same.
I love and miss you


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in loving memory of my dear dad


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A million times I've needed you
A million times I've cried
If love alone could've saved you
You never would've died.
In life I loved you dearly...
In death I love you still
In my heart you hold a place
that no one else can fill.
It broke my heart to lose you,
but you didn't go alone.
For part of me went with you,
the day God took you home.

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Love and miss you so much dad
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