Funeral Arrangements for Frank Cannon

Funeral Mass to be held on Wednesday, April 29th, 12:00 at St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, Halewood and then followed by cremation at Springwood Crematorium. Family flowers only, but donations if desired to Bowel and Cancer Research, c/o Leadbetter & Murphy FD 274a Smithdown Road, Liverpool L15 5AJ Tel. 0151 733 3323

Here is the Obituary in today's Liverpool Echo
http://remembrance.liverpoolecho.co.uk/search.cfm?action=view&subaction=remembrance&remembranceId=376953968

The following poem was sent by Des Herlihy to Marie's daughter and Kitty. Catherine sent it to Gerard and he thinks the text and the poem would be a nice gesture. It's entitled 'Prayer'.

Prayer

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.
Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.
Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.
Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

-- Carol Ann Duffy