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TREASURED MEMORIES OF
OUR DEAR MOTHER
JOSEPHINE DOE
WHO PASSED AWAY
AGED 85 YEARS
Alternative Openings
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
CHERISHED MEMORIES OF
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
IN EVER LASTING MEMORY OF
IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF
Alternative Endings
AT REST
RESTING
REST IN PEACE
IN GOD’S KEEPING
PEACE PERFECT PEACE
NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE
HE LIVES FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
SO DEARLY LOVED, SO SADLY MISSED
SLEEPING
ABIDE WITH ME
SIMPLY THE BEST
THY WILL BE DONE
FOREVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
LOVES LAST GIFT REMEMBRANCE
GONE FROM US BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN
Verses
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT
REST AFTER WEARINESS, PEACE AFTER PAIN
ONLY GOODNIGHT BELOVED NOT FAREWELL
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
GOD HAS YOU IN HIS KEEPING, WE HAVE YOU IN OUR HEARTS
IN OUR MINDS A CONSTANT THOUGHT, IN OUR HEARTS A SILENT SORROW
TO THE WORLD HE/SHE WAS JUST A PART, TO ME HE/SHE WAS THE WHOLE WORLD
HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY, HIS ABSENCE A SILENT GRIEF
FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING, LEAVE ME NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
THOUGH HER/HIS SMILE HAS GONE FOR EVER AND HER/HIS HAND WE CANNOT TOUCH WE SHALL NEVER LOSE SWEET MEMORIES OF THE ONE WE LOVED SO MUCH
GOD FOUND THE PATH WAS GROWING ROUGH, THE HILL TOO STEEP TO CLIMB SO HE/SHE GENTLY CLOSED HIS/HER EYELIDS, AND WHISPERED ‘PEACE BE THINE’
LOVED ONE, THOU ART NE’ER FORGOTTEN, TIS SWEET TO BREATHE THY NAME, IN LIFE I LOVED YOU DEARLY, IN DEATH I DO THE SAME.
