Pat Fairclough (Passed away 8 Dec 2016)

FAIRCLOUGH
Nee White
Pat
Passed away peacefully at home on 8th December 2016 after a sudden short illness
Pat aged 75 years
Much loved wife of the Late Ronnie ‘now reunited’
Loving mum of Liza and Steven, Dearest granny of Nathan, Georgia and Anton.
Sadly missed by all her family and friends.
Funeral Service at The Exeter & Devon Crematorium on Tuesday 20th December 12.15pm St Peters Chapel.
No flowers by request, donations welcome by retiring collection.
Enquiries to
LeRoy Funerals 10 Alphington Road Exeter EX2 8HH

Our Mum was born on the 21st August 1941 in Walton Liverpool.
She was named Marion Patrica White.
She was the youngest of 5 children, leaving her elder sister, our Auntie Mary who still lives in Crosby in Liverpool.
The family lived in Bootle but due to the heavy bombing in Liverpool, the family got split up and Auntie Mary went to stay at a posh house in one part of Southport, where she acquired her 'posh' voice, whilst, Uncles Albert & Ronnie & Auntie Kathleen went somewhere else in Southport.
Mum was born and then joined the other 3 siblings n Southport.
Auntie Mary thought that her mum was ‘fat’ when she last saw her so when she got a letter from Auntie Kath asking her to meet them and her new baby sister in Lord St, she was more than surprised to say the least!!!
Auntie Mary did not see our Mum again then until she was nearly 2, when she came home towards the end of the war.
The family lived in Trinity Road in Bootle, where our Mum's Mum was often called upon to witness a registry office wedding as they lived across the road.
Mum's Dad died when she was about 4 and her only memory of him was sitting in a wicker rocking chair.
She went to the neighbours house on the day of his funeral and watched from the window.
Auntie Mary looked after her a lot then, taking her ice skating and to Sunday school at the Old Mission church where she would sing hymns also.
Whilst living in Trinity Road, the family had a lodger who used to call our Mum… Patsy, which in turn is how she is now known as Pat and not Marion.
Mum attended St Mary’s school and then Balliol secondary school in Bootle.
On leaving school she worked for Mrs Whip the hairdressers on the corner of Trinity Rd and then went to the Hairdressing college in the center of Liverpool.
Mum then went on to work in Courtney Scott in Crosby.
This is where she met her lifelong friend Audrey and had holidays together.
In her teens she frequented the famous Cavern club in Liverpool to see the up and coming Beatles & Cilla Black.
The family moved to Maghull in around 1959, to where the house stayed in the family until the death of Uncle Albert in 2005.
Mum met Dad at a family wedding of her brother to his sister.
They met and married within 3 months at St Andrews church in Maghull, where she became Mrs Pat Fairclough.
Mum moved from Maghull to Exeter after her wedding and stayed with her in-laws, living in a Nissen hut along Topsham rd at the the Royal Naval sores.
She always said that she didn’t go home to Liverpool for the first 6 months, as she would not have come back.
She says life was very lonely with having no friends here but as we (myself & Stevie) came along she made life long friends.
Our Mum lived for her family and was devoted to them, and when Nathan was born, she always said he was the best thing since she had met Dad.
Sadly Dad as you know, passed away very suddenly 13 years ago and every day she joked that she was a day closer to being with him again.
But then Georgia & Anton started to grow from Babies into children and Mum’s life took on another role.
She had a new lease of life and started to socialize with her friends and was often out on a lunch dates that turned into late evenings!

Our Mum's illness & death has been a complete an utter shock for everyone. Mum was at ease with it and was not in any pain and told us that she was not frightened, that she would be with Dad once gain.
We are so grateful that we had time to talk and reassure her before she passed and we were able to get her home where, we (myself, Stevie & Nathan) nursed her till she passed over to be with Dad each one of us holding hers hands until Dad was ready to take them on the other side.

RONNIE’S POEM

Think of me in the morning,
Think of me at night.
And when you’re thinking of me,
Let your heart go light.
I didn’t want to leave you,
But had to go ahead.
In God’s good time you’ll follow,
The path that I did tread.
Our life was good, our love was true,
Would I go very far from you?
I loved you then, I love you still,
Grieve not for me, or I’ll hurt too.
We spent so any happy years,
Come now, why shed those bitter tears?
As I draw close and hold you dear,
I’ll soothe away your mildest fear.
When lying down at night to sleep,
Feel my caress upon your cheek.
Then, as now, for ever dear,
Your peace of mind is all I seek.
Love never dies! I’ll light your way ahead,
Love dies not. I am not dead.