Gwendoline Warren

gwendoline warren,
15/11/2007
81
warehouse operator
birmingham



This page is in memory of my loving nan who has sadly passed away i just would like people to know what sort of person my nan was an what made her so special to me.
My nan Gwendoline had 1 brother and 3 sisters sadly her brother and 2 of her sisters have passed away. she had 2 sons who have also passed away and also has 4 grandchildren.



my nan was such a strong person she really was she never had a easy life as when she was 39 she had a stroke which left her paralized on her left side still she never let that get her down and carried on with life. no matter what life threw at her she just carried on forward no stopping her. she made a happy home for her 2 children geoffrey and william, there was only 15 months between then so you can imagen how hard that must of been for her.as her 2 children grew up and moved out and had there own children.they still never stopped going to see her. sadly william passed away perfect and healthy he had a heart attack. that deverstated my nan as can you imagen losing your child. she did miss him dearly but she still had geoffrey who helped his mother with her grieving. she valued my dad even more she was so happy to have him. then sadly out of the blue geoffrey was at work and collapsed at work by having a heart attack and died on the way to hospital. Now this made my nan think the her whloe world was falling from under her feet. she lost both her children there is 15 months between then in there age my nan also lost them within 15 months of each other.Ill always remember her i would go to she her and she would be talking to her 2 sons pictures i think in awat it helped her. she continued to watch golf and football and would always tell them the scores. but this was when my nans health started to get a little bad she was always good at saying she was fine.then 1 night my nan had a fall and thats when we decided to have her stay with me and my mom, she come out of hospital and came to live with my mom and me and then she had a fall again my nan was such a independant person which lead to her having her 2nd fall which she cut by her eye from then on it was like a down hill battle. not long after her fall my nan was admitted to hospital as she could'nt eat. after her being in hospital and having lots of test the doctors called me and arranged a appointment to discuss my nans health which this played on my head i knew it was going to be bad news but it still did not prepare me for what they were going to tell me,i went in for the meeting and my nan was there too this is when they told me that my nan had cancer in her tuumy which had spread to her liver, my nan done what she does best and told me its ok of course i was really upset but i had to stay strong for my nan. she stayed in hospital a little while longer i chose that it would be best she had no operation or anythink it wouldn't of been fair to put my nan threw it all. my nan just delt with it the same way she did everything else she accepted it this was the hand she picked it never even damped her spirt she still had smiles and chats. i went to see her every day which was hard cause inside i was so upset the one day i went to see her she would say seeing my face was like she had just won a million pounds. after a while we moved my nan to a nursing home st giles. she was in there for a few months and then on the one time i went to see her she was really poorly just sleeping all the time but she would still know i was there and asking for me to hold her i think in away she knew what was happening and wanted to me close to her. then a few days later my nan passed away, which relieved as it was hurting to see her suffer and be in so much pain, it did upset me when she passed away i sat with her for 10mins after she had passed over i told her loved and kissed her and said my goodbyes and to say hello to my dad for me.


I was a nannys little girl and as she would say her rock. i lost my uncle my dad and my nan all 15 months apart.but im just like my nan like that i still am strong life goes on still i will miss them, but ill have my memorys for now and one day it will be like we have never been apart..