The service at St Leonard’s Church will take place at 1.45pm
Address: St Leonard’s Church, Church Hill, Frankley, Birmingham B32 4BL
A map can be found by clicking this link.
The burial at St Nicolas’ Church will take place at 3.30pm
Address: St Nicholas’ Church, 81 The Green, Kings Norton, Birmingham B38 8RU
A map can be found by clicking this link.
Parking may be tricky around this time while the schools are closing for the day but usually there is parking on the green which is free and for an unlimited time. You can also park behind the church itself. Parking is also available in the pub car park at a charge of £1.
Address: 81 The Green, Birmingham B38 8RU
A map can be found by clicking this link.
There is no particular dress code. Please come in whatever makes you feel comfortable.
Jean was no lover of wreaths and so the family would like to suggest that you buy a bunch of flowers (or pick from your garden) to enjoy in her memory. If you are coming to the funeral at either the church service or the burial, you might like to select one flower and bring it with you to place on Jean’s coffin. You could wrap the cut stem in damp cotton wool and foil to keep the flower in good condition but please remove this if you want to place it on the coffin.
Jean’s favourite flowers were freesias and anemones. These are unfortunately out of season, so please select any flowers of your choice. There will be a garland of ivy around the coffin.
Donations
There will be a collection at the service for donations, which will be divided between the following four charities:
Rethink mental Illness (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship): Jean’s husband, Stanley, suffered from schizophrenia and the need for better support for people with mental health problems and their families was a matter of great concern to Jean.
St Mary’s Hospice: The family will be forever grateful for the loving care with which the staff at St Mary’s looked after Jean in the last weeks of her life and before.
Oxfam: Jean donated regularly to Oxfam and other good causes that helped people overseas less fortunate than she was.
Birmingham and the Black Country Wildlife Trust: Jean loved watching garden birds and looked after hedgehogs that came to her garden. Her special wildflower was the meadow clary. She was concerned about the decline in the numbers of small mammals, birds and insects and of the habitats on which they depend.
Donations can also be paid directly into the following bank account in the name of J M Stockton:
Sort Code 07 02 46 Account no. 25127652
Arrangements for the funeral of Jean Stockton
Jean Stockton was my Aunt & godmother, someone who always seemed full of life. I have lots of lovely memories of her; one of the most vivid was at my 21st birthday where she did a handstand in the hall to prove she still could, shades of family parties at nanny Stocktons.
An earlier memory is going with my mother to collect her and her new baby and going back to their new home in Taysfield Road. Picking our way carefully around a building site as the estate was still being built. Walking up the path as neighbours called out if it was a boy or girl (baby was Jane Marilyn).
She had a cocker spaniel called Sophie, and all cocker spaniels are called Sophie as far as I’m concerned.
I remember envying her Triumph car.
A more recent memory is her 80th birthday party at Baddesley Clinton and how a few days later I was talking about it at one of my schools when the careers teacher said that the lovely lady who sat next to hi mother in law as they watched their grandsons at a local cycling club had had her party there, a photo established the lady was Auntie Jean.
She proud of her daughters and their families and their achievements as her facebook posts prove.
When she moved home in the spring she told me how much she was looking forward to the new social life the move opened up. which I think summed her up, she always looked forwards. I will miss her.
Joy Hill