My grandfather

Of your courtesy
remember
Robert Dennis Thurman
father, grandfather, great-grandfather, councillor, architect, friend,
sometime Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers,
who departed this life
10th February 2011
in the 93rd year of his age.

This day we lay the universe to rest:
behind this pair of eyes that lived and died
a mirror-image, faithfully expressed,
reflects a mirror-universe inside
all memories. This day we thank the Lord
for all these shining moments held within
this mind where human memories are stored.
And this shall be the moment they begin
to shatter, to become ten thousand stories
reflecting human life in all its beauty:
each smile, each poem, every sunset's glories,
that call to those remaining of their duty
to see this story speaks and never fails;
to call, recall again ten thousand tales.

Some links:

• Fin's post about him.
• A photo of me with him last year.
• Grandpa, what did you do in the war?

Please also remember Joy, his wife of over sixty years, who must learn now to live without him.