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Holding my mother's ashes in the teapot I buried them in, placed beside my father. Johanna Hammond Interment, St.James Cemetery, Toronto, Hastings, UK © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com July 13, 2011.
You can't take it with you, but I put a few momentos which represented her life in a little bag which accompanied her ashes, placed in a teapot. Including, photos with family, a postcard from my father, a cigarette (which contributed to her cancers, but she refused to quit), matches from a horse racing club which we went to on her 85th birthday, shortly before she died, money from the various places she lived in her life, a ribbon inscribed with all the names by which she was known to her family, a marble as she loved playing marble games (I thought she told me they were called "glazzies") as a child growing up in London on "The Avenue". Oh right- the Grants. She liked to have one drink at night- Grants with ginger ale. We had a drink at the gravesite in her honour with her final bottle, and poured out one for her as well! Johanna Hammond Interment, St.James Cemetery, Toronto, July 13, 2011.
Some ashes were reserved to make a final trip home to England, where she was born. They were placed in a tea tin urn. She always wanted to move back to the land of her birth...
We made the trip back to the UK in 2014. It turned out to be quite an odyssey- revisiting places she loved and had connections with, and leaving a small part of her in each location, documented in the Dust to Stardust album. www.flickr.com/photos/dawnone/albums/72157642719259903
MummyInterment_20110713_09sm
Holding my mother's ashes in the teapot I buried them in, placed beside my father. Johanna Hammond Interment, St.James Cemetery, Toronto, Hastings, UK © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com July 13, 2011.
You can't take it with you, but I put a few momentos which represented her life in a little bag which accompanied her ashes, placed in a teapot. Including, photos with family, a postcard from my father, a cigarette (which contributed to her cancers, but she refused to quit), matches from a horse racing club which we went to on her 85th birthday, shortly before she died, money from the various places she lived in her life, a ribbon inscribed with all the names by which she was known to her family, a marble as she loved playing marble games (I thought she told me they were called "glazzies") as a child growing up in London on "The Avenue". Oh right- the Grants. She liked to have one drink at night- Grants with ginger ale. We had a drink at the gravesite in her honour with her final bottle, and poured out one for her as well! Johanna Hammond Interment, St.James Cemetery, Toronto, July 13, 2011.
Some ashes were reserved to make a final trip home to England, where she was born. They were placed in a tea tin urn. She always wanted to move back to the land of her birth...
We made the trip back to the UK in 2014. It turned out to be quite an odyssey- revisiting places she loved and had connections with, and leaving a small part of her in each location, documented in the Dust to Stardust album. www.flickr.com/photos/dawnone/albums/72157642719259903