Claudia Cooper

CLAUDIA COOPER........

16/02/1965 - died 08/08/2006 - aged 41

funeral was held on the 25th august 2006, ceremony was at chapel of rest in stanley in wakefield, by
arthur bell funeal directors,

please feel free to light a candle or leave your condolences, and please leave pictures if you want
to as well, thank you :)

mum to jamie (aged 14) - my brother,

and me and my twin sister fiona (now 17)

wife to david (now 43) - my mums husband

daughter in law to sheila (aged 73) - my dads mum

daughter to christa and heinz, christa (my grandma) passed away in 1985 from cancer,5 years before i
was born

and heinz (my grandad) passed away this year in february from pneumonia in hopital...

mum...

the year before last, in august, on the 8th, you died from cancer,
i was only 16 at the time and it hit me so hard,
you suffered for 12 long years
and in the end you had it all over your body and couldnt cope any longer
all you wanted was to be in peace
thats why you grew your angel wings on the 8th august 2006
i have done a website for you on here before
but i deleted it, it was too hard for me to come on here all the time,
you have no idea how hard it is,
i just hope your up there smiling and shning down on me
this is now probably the closest thing i have got to you
i hope you have lookeat this website before
except when i come to your grave and you are close in my heart as well
but i feel like this is as close as i can ever get to you.again
until im with you again
and its better to keep your memory going than forget
if you know what i mean and i can tell you things this way as well,
its just been your first anniversary in august last year
i came to see your grave with hollie and emma,
i didnt think id be able to go on my own, but thinkng about it i would of liked it because then i
would of been able to talk to you etc
i thought that i would be a right mess
and wouldnt be able to control what i would be like
but i dont want you to see me like that,
thats why i usualy keep things inside
its hard to let my feelings out
i know i shouldnt but thats how ive dealt with things ever since...
emma took some lovely flowers,
hope you liked them :)
i stayed for ages as well nearly an hour talking to your grave,
emma and hollie went up to get back in rory car after a bit so i could just be there on my own with
you :)
hope you were there with me listening as well :)
im going to come see your grave again soon,
but believe me,
if it was closer id be there everyday, talking to you, ishing yu were back with me..
but it isnt so i can only come and see your grave at weekends
and that upsets me because you know id come alot more if i could,
i dont really cry when i come to your grave because to me it feels like ive seen you again...
i do if i think about you too much when im there,
i know i should let my feelings out but i want to make you proud of me, how ive dealt with things
ever since,
i remember nearly every single day of the year thats you died and were cruelly taken away from me
and everybody else
you were in and out of hospital all the time from about march time
and you stopped your treatment for cancer about 3-4 months before you died,
and from that time on you were just in wakefield hospice
and would come out every so often,
and then get worse again and have to go back in,
i loved suprising you as well,
turning up when you werent expecting anybody
you should of seen the smile on your beautiful face :)
you were way too young to leave us all you were only 41,
you had soooo much left to do in life,
for yourself,
and for other people as well,
you had sooo many things that you had left that you wanted to do,
you had always wanted to go to australia,
and i always said to you that if i could afford it and i had the money then id take you there,
i wish had got a job sooner because then i could of taken you there,
life is just too cruel,
but we know that it was for the best in a way
because you were in alot of pain
and i knew that you wanted to be in peace as well
you had had enough and just wanted to be in peace
and i think thats why you stopped your treatment as well,
there are soooo many things as well that i want to ask you,
and there are also alot of things i want to hear you say again,
even shouting at me and being angry i want to hear again because that was you mum,my mum, i need
you......
you hadnt worked for ages before you got ill,
but you did work in new college and you loved that job :)
teaching other people was what you were born to do,
and to be a mother to us all, and bring us 3 up like you did :)
i will always remember and treasure the times that we shared together and i will never forget you,
after all you were my mum and you only get one mum in life,
i will also always remember the things that you said,
taught me and did with me,
take me on holiday,
take me shopping etc,
even just the small things like watching tv together
mean sooo much to me now,
i have to hold onto these memories now until the day we meet again,
im still only 17, nearly 18 now, and its still soo strange you not being here,
it still doesnt seem right and it seems like you should be back here with us by now,
but it wasnt meant to be,
thats how life is,
its cruel and always takes away the people that you love the most and trust the most etc....
il never forget you mum,
you just keep smiling high in the sky and save me a place next to you, keep on making me proud to be
your daughter,
like i always will be :)
until its my turn to come up there my self. . . .

keep shining from that big bright star in the sky like you said you would....

ich liebe dich immer............
lots of love and kisses....
your daughter hannah x x x x x x x x x x x x x
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx


you can shed tears that she has gone..
or you can smile because she has lived..
you can close your eyes and pray that she will come back..
or you can open your eyes and se all she left..

your hearts can be empty because you cannot see her..
or you can be full of the love you shared..

you can turn your back on tomorow and live yesterday..
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday..

you can remember her and only that she has gone..
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on..
you can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back..
or you can do what she would want,smile,open your eyes,love and go on...xxx



i fall asleep in the full and certain hope
that my slumber shall not be broken
and that, though i be all forgetting
yet shall i not be all forgotten
but continue that life in the thoughts and deeds
of those i have loved


when despair for the world grows in me
and i wake in the night t the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrens lives may be
i go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water
and the great heron feeds
i come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of geif
i come into the presence of still water
and feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their light
for a time a rest in the grace of the world and i am free...

the peace of the running water to you..
the peace of the flowing air to you..
the peace of the quiet earth to you..
the peace of the shining stars to you..
and the love and care of us all to you.......

claudia, rest in peace..xxxx