Lit by Family 6th December 2016
Say not in grief 'she is no more' but in thankfulness that she was. - Hebrew Proverb. Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flowers wither but the seed remains. - Kahlil Gibran. The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal. - Cicero. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what some small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. - Pierce Harris. On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all human eyes, where the light of life of them is on all past things, death only dies. - Alger non Charles Swinburne.
This candle was first lit on the 6th of December 2016 and will burn for 92 years 6 months and 17 days.