A Celebration of the life of Geoff Grant

St. Lukes Church Hickling, Monday 21st May

A floral tribute spelling out GEOFF in large white letters.

Geoff Grant, 6th May 2007.

A grand piano made of flowers.    A beautiful blue & purple arched gateway in flowers, with white lily trim.

The picture on the left shows a beautiful floral tribute in the shape of a grand piano. The body is black and the keys made from black and white flowers. The one on the right shows a vivid purple blue arched gateway, with white floral trim.

A lettered floral tribute, simply spelling the word "DAD". In white lettering with blue and yellow tulip-styled trim

A lettered floral tribute, simply spelling the word "DAD".  In white lettering
with blue and yellow tulip-style trim.

12 Members of TAFN standing together after the crematorium service, in front of floral tributes to Geoff.

12 members of The Accessible Friends Network!  From left to right - Front Row - Steve, Audrey, Shirley, Bob, Jaye.  Middle row - Sue, Janette.   Back row - Avatar, Ian, Leon, Chris & Michael.  In the foreground are two white floral arrangements, one spelling out GEOFF, the other spelling out TAFN, in large letters.

The beautiful horses which led the carriage to church, standing proudly together, each wearing a black feathered plume.

The horse-drawn carriage preparing to leave the church.

Two beautful floral bouquets. One with orange yellow red & white flowers, the other with purple tellow and white.

3 lovely bouquets in a row, one dark red themed, one white and one yellow and orange.

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A beautiful spray of lillies in white and light blue.

May 27th - The following photos were kindly sent by Trevor & Janet via email.  

.  The jazz band at the end of the walk, stop alongside the funeral car outside the chapel. Playing "Sweet Georgia Brown" as the many attendees looked on.

The horse drawn hearse outside St Luke's, Hickling. 2 black horses with dark plumes wearing smart livery, lead a traditional coach style carriage hearse in black with gold trim, it has a glass sided cab, spoked wheels and traditional lanterns. The coachmen wear top hats.

Barry with Bruiser, a border collie.  Avtar with guide dog Victor, a black labrador.  Ian with guide dog Kinta, a german shepherd.

Work on this tribute site is ongoing through Summer 2007.  Thanks to everyone who has sent in pictures and best wishes via email.  This page is maintained by Leon Gilbert.

Many Thanks!.

Video Clip (Updated)

As of June 17th we have now removed the old video clip and replaced it with a better one.

The following video was encoded from the DVD of the service made by Ginns and Gutteridge which was kindly sent in by Shirley.

(25Mb, WMV format with sound,  Duration 22 Mins 51).

Watch or listen to the video (requires broadband). God bless!

Our sincerest condolences to Shirley, and all of Geoff's family and friends.

Geoff lived near Melton Mowbray and the funeral - which was really a celebration of his life - was held on May 21st 2007 in Leicestershire.  Several of Geoff's friends from TAFN attended and we would all, like to thank Shirley and all of Geoff's family for a wonderful service which really did Geoff proud.

We would also like to thank The Three Crowns in Somerby, Leicestershire.

TAFN also held an online service simultaneously on our Voice Conferencing server for those unable to attend in person.

Listen to a recording of the TAFN online service

Special thanks to Gladys, Mary, Teresa, Michael & Chrissy, Ann, Katie, Trevor, & Christine C.

Donations in memory of Geoff may be made to
UHLCF (Cardiology) and sent c/o
Ginns & Gutteridge Funeral Directors,
51 Vaughan Way, Leicester LE1 4NR
Telephone: (0116) 251 6117

THANKS FOR VISITING.

LINKS: [A little about Geoff]  [Condolences Book]  [Geoff's Jazz]
[Poem by Gladys Taylor]  [Geoff's "Let's Learn About" Interview, November 2004]
[Contact TAFN]  [Cheeky Monkey's jokes]

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The background track to this page is "Goodbye" by Lionel Ritchie.