Mum’s Funeral Service 30th May 2023

By Michael Reid

30th May 2023

The Funeral Service of Elaine Iris Reid held on 30th May 2023 at The Chapel of Macleay Valley House, Frederickton.

Farewelling our much loved sister, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, great-aunt, great-great-aunt, cousin, and friend.

Please feel free to view the service via the following link:

https://vimeopro.com/walkerfunerals/past-funerals/video/831392785

A Reflection

An elegant woman of simple dreams

To be loving wife and mother of four

Her heart at risk of tearing at the seams

From all the love she carried in her core

Her four boys lived a charmed and easy youth

We knew we were the blessed boys of mum

We floated happily in her sweet truth

That we indeed were brighter than the sun

As reality slowly came to bear

Revealing all our frailties and scars

Mum’s unwavering conviction stood clear

We always would remain her brightest stars

For Mum, life’s pressures pressed too hard upon

She struggled to fulfil this lonely role

Floundering in helpless desperation

As life extracted a life-changing toll

Yet through it all our gentle champion emerged

Bloodied and bruised, yet still so full of love

She harnessed her great passionate reserves

And with a fresh resolve, she rose above

So here we stand, in wonderment today

That this good kindly font of motherhood

Survived and thrived in unambitious ways

And taught us how the worst can be withstood

This lesson bests what formal teaching might

And Mum was not an educated soul

Yet she taught us that love could win the fight

And thus she played the perfect mother’s role.