John Gawthorpe
Arrangements for the funeral of John Gawthorpe
Thursday 15th September 10.30 for 11am
Abbots Morton Village Hall and Westall Park Natural Burial Ground
Family and friends are gathering to acknowledge John’s passing, and to celebrate his life.
A commemoration will take place at Abbots Morton Village Hall starting at 11am.
After the commemoration, those that wish to, will travel in convoy for the short distance from the village hall to Westall Park Natural Burial Ground. Here a few more words will be spoken before John is laid to rest.
Refreshments will be served back at Abbots Morton Village Hall after the burial.
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Below you will find directions and further information, and feel free to send any messages to John’s family via the comments area below.
Address: Abbots Morton Village Hall, Abbots Morton
near Inkberrow
Worcestershire
WR7 4NA
For directions here’s a link to the location of the village hall on google maps
Here’s a link to the Village Hall website
Turning off Radford Rd into Abbots Morton you carry on up the lane for about 1/2 a mile and you will see a sign to the Village Hall on the left. Any problems finding the hall please call: 0121 444 0437.
Westall Park is one of the UK’s finest natural burial grounds and aims to create a place which those who wish to remember their loved ones will want to visit, not out of a sense of duty, but from the pleasure and peace of mind it can evoke. Westall Park has created an eco-friendly cemetery as a place for quiet reflection in an informal setting amongst trees, wild flowers and wildlife. Eventually it will become a woodland glade, full of nature where all wildlife is encouraged to thrive.
Address: Holberrow Green, Nr Redditch, Worcestershire, B96 6JY
A map can be found by clicking this link.
Westall Park is a field which can get muddy, so suitable footwear is advisable. Equally in hot weather the long grass can hide flies and midges so fly spray can be useful, along with hats and sunglasses.
The dress code for the day is not traditional funereal clothes, please wear whatever makes you feel comfortable.
Family flowers only please.
If you would like to make a donation in John’s memory, we will be holding a collection on the day of the funeral for St Mary’s Hospice in Birmingham.
Alternatively you can donate via their website https://www.birminghamhospice.org.uk/Appeal/support-your-hospice-donate
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep –
He hath awakened from the dream of life –
‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirits knife
Invulnerable nothings. – We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments. – Die,
If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!
Follow where all is fled! – Rome’s azure sky,
Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak
The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak.
P.B. Shelley (spoken by M. Jagger Hyde Park 69)
Love you Joe. Goodbye man. (Sorry about the gate latch)