Gui flew out on Thursday to be with the family.
Some of my fond memories of this woman was at our wedding, where she stood up proudly and sang old songs from her region, and encouraged everyone to join in.
She read the scriptures for the ceremony.
I loved that she was strong in her faith, which is something special, especially since none of the people I know in the family had interest in faith. One our first few trips, we were able to attend church with her. The priest that married us was the family priest for decades.
She organised the arrangements with the church.
I don't know a lot about her past but from the little I gathered, she was born after the war, when her siblings were much older and had become nuns in a convent (and had passed on many years now).
Mamoune, when I first met her was living in their apartment near the Marseille Train Station. She lived by herself, worked everyday at the Station, directing people to places and was always busy. When we went to visit her at the apartment, we got to see all the history in her home, the photos, the furniture, her late husband's work tools. So beautiful that she kept it all.
When her children grew up, she had lived in Cuers with her late husband, and we have visited Cuers on every trip we made to France with the children. She eventually moved to the city (where most of her grown children have since settled, but maintained her independence).
I'm thinking now, pained about the harshness of life, where age takes so much of our strength, and sense of control and joy.
But we focus now on Hope, and Gratefulness for the work Charlotte has done, to raise her children, each one, wonderful and raising children and grandchildren on their own.
She would have been proud.
She would have.
Farewell Mamoune,...
Mme Charlotte FRILET
née JULLIAND
est rentrée à la Maison du Père, le lundi 18 février 2019
à l'âge de 94 ans.
Jacqueline, Anne-Marie, Jean-François et Bernard,
ses enfants, Françoise
et leurs conjoints
Ses 9 petits-enfants
et leurs conjoints
Ses 20 arrière-petits-enfants
Les familles FRILET, JULLIAND, BECERRA, VOLA, DERACHE, DENEUBOURG
Ses amis de l'Hospitalité
de Lourdes, de SOS Voyageurs, de la Paroisse Saint-Pierre - Saint-Paul
vous invitent à venir vous unir
à leur prière lors des obsèques célébrées en l'église Saint-Pierre - Saint-Paul
samedi 23 février 2019,
à 10h.
Service Catholique des Funérailles
04.91.95.18.18
