Charles
& Laura : I was very blessed to have 16 years to be married to the most
wonderful, dear man on earth ...... my husband Charles passed away on the 24th
April 2012 due to melanoma cancer. I
lost my best friend, my husband, my lover, my children's 'second' dad, my
grandchildren's 'grandad Charles' .......
Our
story is quite unique ........ in our first marriages we very good family
friends, already from 1971. We never
gave it a thought that we will get together when older. We were both divorced
when we were invited to a birthday party and supposed to go each with other
friends. At the last moment the friends
on both sides decided not to attend and Charles firstly phoned wanting to
attend with our group of friends. On
hearing that the friends are also not attending he asked me to attend with him
as we are both on our own. It turned out
to be a wonderful evening and afterwards him and his daughter, who lived
together, invited me and my youngest daughter for dinner one evening......then
dinner at our place and soon we realised that we felt very attracted to each
other. I then invited him for
Valentines dinner as it was leap year.
In
May he invited me on holiday to the Kgalagadi wildlife reserve together with
his mom and sister. It was a wonderful
holiday and we then realised that we want to be together for life.
On
our return we asked the consent of our children and after dating for 6 months
we got married on the 2nd August ......the start of a very happy marraige!!
My
husband was very popular as he was such a wonderful man ..... an uncut diamond with
so much compassion and love for all with whom he came into contact. Everyone was
important to him no matter what their position, race or color was. And it was not
just me who said so ..... all the children and grandchildren loved him because
he gave everything at all times, always in interested in everyone's whereabouts
and doings and loved everyone unconditionally . Our minister said at the funeral
that Charles had the characteristics of Jesus and everyone agreed to this.
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