An Era Ends

It has been a very sad week here at the farm with the sad loss of the central member of our family. My mother in law passed peacefully in her own home at the age of 91. It is a great loss to everyone.

Joy was born locally in the village of Backwell where her father was a local butcher. 

She came to the farm as a newly wed in 1954. 

Conditions were not what she was accustomed to with no bathroom and no running water but Joy was not deterred. She immersed herself totally in farming and family life bringing up their two boys.

Life was not easy for her. She was widowed over 41 years ago and she worked tirelessly to save the farm for her boys.

She became part of my life when I married 25 years ago and came to live on the farm.

She was a totally devoted mother and grandmother.

Family occasions meant everything to her. Christmas and birthdays were always spent with part or all of the family.

She thought the world of her four granddaughters and they all reciprocated the love helping to care for her in her final days.

We all have a lot to be grateful to her for and her memory will live on for many years on the farm. Without her none of us we be here today.  She will be dearly missed.