Ellen MARTIN Obituary

Dear God,
If flowers grow in heaven
on land that's wild and free
Lord, place some in my Nanny's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Please tell her that I love her
and I miss her everyday,
tell her that there's still so much
that I would like to say.
Remembering her is easy,
she's in everything I do.
I'll miss her every single day
that she will spend with you.
I often lie awake at night
when the world is fast asleep,
and take a walk down memory lane
with tears upon my cheeks.
If my tears could build a stairway
made from all the pain,
I'll walk right up to Heaven now
and bring Nan back again.
Lord, please take special care of her
and hopefully she sees -
Our family shining in your eyes, because
in our hearts Nan, you'll always be
Amine xo

My heart is broken without you. Miss you xo

I wonder what you're doing.. imagine where you are.. there's oceans in between us but that's not very far <\3

Happy Anniversary Nan & Papa it was my day off today, and I woke up and thought - you would be getting ready to become KOTAHI AROHA on this day, all those years ago. How excited you both must have been! I imagine you would have run around shouting - I'm gonna be his wife today! OR were you more reserved and modest nan?!! NAH!!! I bet you were ready for this day weeks ago, the whole day mapped out in your head about to become a dream come true!! The most perfect day there could ever Be!! Nanny G spoke at your tangi of the days when you were both teens and papa Mai and papa Harold would ride their horses to see you both.. and you would be waiting! And you would both get excited when you heard the horses hoovès pounding the ground.. like your hearts thumping in your chests!! and the old man on the hill that would see the boys coming and tell on you girls to great nanny & papa.. the spy on the hill hahahaha!! And how you would both go for rides with the boys, to their secret enchanted places only for you. And you would laugh, and kiss and talk until dark and then they would take you back home on their horses.. and the spy would watch you stealing kisses in the night! And you didn't care because you were so madly in love!! Trapped in moments of bliss!! I imagine the Gods shining favourably upon you both on this day deciding to gift you both with a great big family filled with love and adoration from everyone forever and ever!! I miss you more everyday, Fly high my Nan I'll be looking for you always xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Hi Nan I miss you xo

I miss you Nan :(
I miss you more than words can even describe.

Hi Nan,
Heaven must be so beautiful now that you are there, but Earth is such a hard place to BE now that you have departed. It doesn't feel right to continue this life without you in it, but I will do my best every day to allow your beautiful spirit to live on through me. You've gifted me with so much love and the best memories that I will carry close to my heart for the rest of my days, never forgetting the beautiful impact that you made on this world. I love you and miss you so much Nan xo

My Dearest Nan - there is an emptiness in my heart that only your spirit can fill, and I pray that I will feel you by my side every single day until we meet again. I love you all the way to the 7th realm and back forever! Come see me in my dreams

I will not stand at your grave and weep,
You are not there you do not sleep.
You are in a thousand winds that blow,
You are the softly falling snow.
You are the gentle showers of rain,
You are the fields of ripening grain.
You are in the morning hush,
You are in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
You are the starshine of the night.
You are in the flowers that bloom,
You are in a quiet room.
You are in the birds that sing,
You are in each lovely thing.
I will not stand at your grave bereft,
You are not there, you have not left

Ellen Josephine Martin
24.3.1941 - 14.3.2018

And when one after another we shall have fallen asleep in thee, May we find our family reunited in thy sacred heart