BETTY MCCARNEY

Niles, MI on 25 May 1952

Ft. Myers, FL on 14 October 2015

63 years

Details

Relatives and friends are invited to her memorial services on Tuesday, October 20th at 5:30pm at The Wayside Chapel, 1156 Horsham Road, Ambler, PA, followed by a reception at The Joseph Ambler Inn, 1005 Horsham Road, North Wales, PA. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hope Hospice, 9470 Healthpark Circle, Ft. Myers, FL 33908.

The Story

Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Everything remains as it was.
The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no sorrow in your tone.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effort
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because
I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting, when we meet again.

Source: derived from a sermon written by Henry Scott Holland