1st Anniversary & Acknowledgement. 

Mari Oosthuizen (Hyde),

Midleton. 

 

Mari's mother Stephanie and family would like to express their unreserved gratitude for the the sympathy, support and consolation given to them by so many at the time and since Mari died. The vast numbers who attended the service on the Monday evening at the funeral home was completely unexpected and was awe inspiring and is appreciated by us all every day. People travelled from great distances and not so great and we thank you all for your sincerity of word, love and consolation. Mari was held so highly by so many and this helps us all now and will into the future. Thanks to Dean Alan Marley for conducting the simple but most personal and appropriate service, Fr. Gerard Cremin and Fr. Eamon Roche for praying with us too. To Caroline Fraher for her wonderfully uplifting and beautiful singing. Many messages were received from near and as far away as Australia and from her great friends at Cintsa in South Africa who also sent a beautiful slide show of Mari's happiest times, spent with them where she loved to travel to, thank you all. To Grainne and Pat Healy, we cannot use words that could tell of our appreciation for you. You know what you meant to Mari and mean to us all. To our family and also our friends and colleagues in the Funeral profession, especially Colin, Billy and Pat,  a sincere thank you for all your support. We all have many memories of Mari, the kind loving girl who couldn't see the person we could. On September 5th 2015, Mari rode off into the dawn and we're certain that she is now at peace and can truly see the beautiful person she was on this earth. Ride on Mari. 

 

We mourn what should have been, but couldn't be

And never now will be

 

A soul too pure for life to understand

A hint, a glimpse is all we ever had.

A smile so radiant

But never close at hand

A fog of darkness soon a band,

 

Too pure to live too young to die

A journey first must end.

That journey done

The body gone

The soul at peace beyond