To the 'craziest' and most kind hearted sister......
A beautiful rose was plucked amongst our midst 4 years ago. Even though we never spent most of our years together, I am truly thankful to God that I got to share the last few months of your life with you.....and you still made us laugh!!!
May you rest in Eternal Peace.
Carol, Terri and Vicki Ocholla

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January, 28th, 1981 : Hillary Ocholla

To a wonderful and caring father....
While many forgot about you soon after your death, you are sorely missed by your family and true friends. No matter how many years go by (27 long years), you will always be dear and close to our hearts .
Continue to rest in peace! Carol Ocholla

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February, 9th 2005 : James O'Brien Snr

We cannot bring the old days back when we were all together
The family chain is broken now but memories live forever

The O'Brien Family, Churchill Road, Langley. visit their family page

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March, 6th 1997 Mai Hand (nee Birch)

Born 11th May, 1929
My mum, Mai (who was christened Mary Josephine Birch, but always called Mai) lived for most of her married life in Langley, having moved over to the UK on her marriage to Eamon Hand in 1960. She grew up in Wicklow, County Ireland and trained as a nurse before she moved to England. All her life was devoted to children - whether her own, her nieces and nephews, or the many she took care of in her work.
Mai and Eamon had 6 children - who all grew up in Jefferson Close, Langley.

They moved into their brand new home in 1964 with myself (Elaine), Paul and Joyce. They were followed by Teresa, Carmel and Ray. We all started our education at Holy Family School, and then either St Bernards, St Jospehs or Langlewood - and mum saw 3 of her girls go off to university to pursue their dreams of being teachers.

Mum was a sociable animal - she loved being out with the UCM, going to Lourdes with them, going to her bingo with her friends, or whirling around the dance floor with Dad at St Anne's Hall on a Sunday night. She was rarely without a cigarette in her hand, or a smile on her face and she had a wonderful laugh - tipping her head back and letting out her giggles!

Although she lived here in England her love of her family in Ireland - her brothers and sisters, neices and nephews, and our Granny - never stopped and she was frequently on the Holyhead train from Euston and the Sealink service over to Dublin. She loved playing a tune on the mouth organ, or the accordian, and loved singing - whenever, wherever she was.

She was a great mum - hard working, as you have to be when you have 6 children to look after. My favourite memories are of our holidays to Ireland with her and Dad, off with 2 suitcases, 6 children, and a packed lunch, for the long journey from Langley to Dublin, where we'd then be put up by relatives, or stay in a caravan by the sea, for a couple of weeks. None of us ever really wanted to come home. Mum and Dad gave us a love of Ireland and our Irish family that has remained with us.

In 1988 Mum's first grandson was born - my son. I named him Danny, after the lilting Irish song and she loved him - and subsequently all of her grandchildren, with a passion. She had the time to spoil them, to treat them to all the things grannies can, to play with them, make a mess with them, paddle in their pools with them, and just loved them so much it was plain for all to see. Her grandchildren were her "little pets". All of them - all 14 as there are now - love her and miss her. Even those who never met her as she had passed away before they were born, know her and have heard all about her. Several of them have inherited her love of music, and when we got together to remember the 10th anniversary of her passing in 2007, it was just fantastic to see the little ones playing guitars, flutes, singing, dancing, and being just as she would have wanted.

We all miss her every day, every moment of every day. I'll never stop wishing I could pick the phone up and have another chat with her, and when something exciting happens I still, despite the 10 year gap, often think to give her a ring.

Her influence on our family is there every day. She was a wonderful mother. She was a great friend. She helped her daughters to be good mothers, and one day hopefully we will also follow in her footsteps and spoil and love our grandchildren just as she did her own.

We wish she'd had longer with us, but we know, one day, we will all be together again. In the meantime Mum, keep your guiding hand on us, and watch your beautiful grandchildren smiling, playing music, singing, laughing and loving, and know that a little part of you lives on in them and you will never be forgotten.

Elaine Hand

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April 2nd 2005 : Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II Born 18th May 1920 Wadowice, Poland. Papacy began 16/10/78

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September, 7th 2007 : Sr. Kathleen Hart

Sr Kathleen Hart was born in Dublin, Ireland on 30 July,1925.
She came from a loving united family steeped in faith. Before entering the Congregation in Rome, Kathleen was an active member of the Legion of Mary when early in 1950, she met Fr Renato Simoni, a Pauline priest, who spoke to her at length about Fr James Alberione, the Pauline Family and the Daughters of St Paul.
Together with Sr Mary Connell fsp and Sr Muriel Fetherston, Pious Disciple of the Divine Master, they left Ireland in September 1950 to join the Daughters of St Paul in Rome. After stopping over for a brief stay in London at the House of the Society of St Paul, then in Paris in the community of the Pious Disciples and at Alba where they had their first contact with the Daughters of St Paul. Kathleen joined the Congregation in Rome on the 30^th September 1950.

Like those who travelled with her on that first journey, Kathleen had no idea where she was going. She did not see the road ahead. She had profound faith, a sense of mission and she trusted totally in God.
A gentle person, a prayerful sister and a loyalty to God and to her family were some of her characteristics. During the first days in Rome she was introduced to Don Alberione who welcomed her and her companions and encouraged them to continue the journey to holiness and according to the will of God.
All the words had to be translated as not one member of the small initial group had a word of Italian.
Sr Kathleen made her first profession on 19 March, 1953, in the Crypt of Regina Apostolorum. A few months later she was “sent on mission to the United States” where she spent 28 years as a “propagandist” first in Boston and later working in the Book Centres of the Daughters of St Paul in the U.S.A. She was superior in the community of Miami. She loved “the apostolate” and for many years after her return to England she continued to remember with nostalgia the years spent at the service of the Church in the American Province. While in America, her mother died and Sr Kathleen was always sorry that she did not have the opportunity to say her last good-byes personally to her.
Kathleen returned to England on 26 April 1981 and was, for some time assigned to the Glasgow community. Later, she joined the Kensington community and worked in the Dispatch Department. She is well remembered by the sisters and members of staff for her prayerful spirit, charitable attitude, precision in her work. Every place had to be kept tidy and in order for the Glory of God.
She was very happy to join her co-novices for the celebration of her Golden Jubilee in Fatima and in Rome in March 2003.
Shortly afterwards, Alzheimer’s disease which had already struck her, continued to have a debilitating effect on Sr Kathleen and due to her declining health she was transferred to our community at Casa Divina Provvidenza, Alba, where she was lovingly taken care of.
She suffered some minor strokes and in July 2007, she was taken by ambulance to Albano where she died on Friday 7 September.
Sr Kathleen believed that it was in the Congregation and in community that the grace of God awaited her. She prayerfully embraced God’s will at all times and responded to it with a great sense of gratitude. The words most often on her lips were “Thank you”.
In the latter months Sr Kathleen had a great desire to “go home to her mother”.
Her prayer has now been granted and we believe that she is enjoying to the full together with her family, friends and members of the Daughters of St Paul with whom she lived and worked and gone before her, the fullness of grace in God’s presence. : Sr Mary Connell

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September, 14th. 2002 : Mzee Alexander Ondier

We thank God for your life, we thank God for your soul, which lives on forever.

It's only goodnight, Dad, not farewell Lucy Ondier

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September, 27th. 2006 : David O'Brien

We cannot bring the old days back when we were all together
The family chain is broken now but memories live forever

The O'Brien Family, Churchill Road, Langley. visit their family page

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October, 4th 1969: Fr. Geoffrey Desmond Crawfurd

Born : 5th.March, 1910
When Fr. Geoffrey Crawford went as chaplain to St. Bernard's convent,(app.1940) there were only 100 Catholics in the district. By 1957 the number had risen to 2,300. That same year Langley was made a parish with Fr. Crawfurd as parish priest and the new Holy Family church was opened by Mgr. Charles Grant, then vicar general of the Northampton diocese. Cost of the church was £20,000, with a wooden altar.

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November : Dedicated to the Holy Souls

Praying and remembering
- more especially during this month of Holy Souls -
Parents, Brothers and Sisters and all close family and friends still missed daily.

May they ALL REST IN PEACE and remember us.

Gemma and Ron Meik

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November 1st 2006 Fr. Dominic Rafferty

1st anniversary of Fr. Dominic Rafferty, died 1st Nov. 2006.
May he rest in peace released from his sufferings. Always remembered especially by Holy Family Feb. Lourdes Pilgrimages in the past when he gave so much spiritual guidance.
Gemma and Ron Meik

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FAMILY PAGES

The O'Brien Family, Churchill Road, Langley.

We cannot bring the old days back when we were all together .
The family chain is broken now but memories live forever.


James O'Brien Jnr Died 6th January 2004		James O'Brien Snr Died 9th February 2005		David O'Brien Died 27th September 2006

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way you always used.
Put no difference into your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me.
Pray for me. Let my name be the household name it always was.
Let it be spoken without the shadow of a ghost in it. Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was. What is death but a negligible accident.
Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight. All is well, nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.

Jean McGonagle
Daughter and sister to above

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