Brenda Joyce Day

well nana,
here we are after a long a wonderful journey,
my nana was wife to barrie, mum to tracey and john, nana to stacie, liam, paige, chloe, sophie and holly-beth. brenda was also sister to richard and john.
1967 was the year when my nana and grandad first met each other for the first time at the old palaise when my grandad asked my nana to dance and she gracefully accepted.
my nana was 19 and my grandad was 17. my grandad said it was love at first sight. after three years of courting nana and grandad became man and wife. on that day my grandad promised my nana that he will be there with her to the very end. even my nana's auntie said they were meant to be together.
my nana was the kind of person that always went away on holiday to butlins with my grandad, uncle john and my mum. they all used to love day trips away. if my nana couldnt get away she would sometimes camp in the front garden with my grandad for the night.
there was even occasions when my nana would just take the kids for a walk down clifton village to go blackberry picking so she could make her own jam or crumble.
there was also another occasion when nana cut through a muddy field and she got her foot stuck in the mud, her foot came out of her welly and she fell flat on her face, but she couldnt do anything for laughing.
later on in life nana and grandad enjoyed going on holiday together, their special place was blackpool which usually happened around my nana's birthday.
nana was a very easy going person.
when it came to my mum and my uncle, she always allowed them to have parties at home and gave my grandad money to go to his favourite pub so he didnt have to put up with the rackett. she also had quiet a unique way of dealing with her children when they were fighting. she would make them move all the furniture to one side of the room and fight it out untill one of them gave up, another thing about my nana is that if she didnt like you she would let you know about it. i can remember her telling me one time that she chased my dad one day down her street with a shopping trolley and she frightened him to death. he said he never ran so fast.
nana used to love to nag my grandad and one day he went fishing and brought back a live pike and put it in the bath, well you can imagine my nanas reaction.
nana loved to socialse alot and thats when she joined the acorn day centre, there she enjoyed flower arranging and singing. after a while of being there she made friends with christine who persuaded her to join the siant martin choir in strelley which soon became one of her passions. she loved to sing carols to the old folk.
unfortunatly for her she became ill and was unable to continue with the choir but still continued to saty very good friends with christine.
she loved many things on life which included elvis presley and wouldnt hear a bad word said about him, but most importantly she loved my grandad barrie, my mum and my uncle, and all of her grandchildren.
she used to have a beautiful saying before she went to sleep each night.
good night, god bless.
sadly on the 5th december 2008 my nana passed away with my mum uncle and grandad by her side.
more than anything my grandad kept his promise and stayed with her to the very end.
nana you will be sadly missed by all who knew you and all of your family that love you. you will never be far from our hearts and minds.
xxxxx