Our Mum, Marjorie Joan was born in 1925 to Lilian and George Wiffin in Grimsby Lincolnshire, the eldest of 8 children, 6 girls and 2 boys.
Times were hard. As a child she looked after her brothers and sisters and at the age of 13 was working mending fishing nets for the Grimsby fleet.

She was 14 when war broke out and the Grimsby area and docks were a prime target. When she was 17 she asked to join the war effort and was allowed to apply for The Women’s Land Army.
The course of her life was changed forever. She was posted to Barnet and just before the war ended, she met Arthur James Rebbeck, a friend of the farmer’s son; they were married 6 months later and she never returned to Grimsby to live.

Mum and Dad settled into Endersby Rd in 1957 and it became Mum’s home for the next 63 years. They brought up 2 daughters in a very sociable household, friends were always welcome and neighbours became friends.  Her marriage lasted 59 years until Dad’s death in 2003 and many of her friendships endured for 40, 50, even 80 years!

She was loved and respected by everyone she met. The lovely warm tributes that we have received in the last few days are testament to that.

Quote: your mum was one of the nicest people we ever met, truly amazing lady, it was an honour to know and love her.
Quote: she was a dear friend for over 50 years, she will be missed by all.
Quote: she was lovely company and we shall miss her very much.
Quote: your mother was a wonderful person and she will always be Aunt Madge to me.
Quote: I have so many wonderful memories of growing up in Endersby Rd and your mum always welcomed me into her home.
Quote: I always thought of her as someone who had a cheeky sense of humour, who enjoyed life and had a great love of family and friends both human and furry. Whenever I saw or spoke to her she simply made me smile. She also made the best marmalade and jam!
There are many more.

Due to mum’s failing health we had the need to move out of Endersby Rd and settle near my sister in Devon. She took it all in her stride however her one worry was ‘who will come to my funeral’.
Well Covid has taken care of that as we are unable to have many at the service. We have therefore organised a webcast so that anyone can attend from anywhere.
Mum will hopefully have her big funeral with most well-wishers seeing it online.

There are three things that Marjorie was especially proud of...
Her grandchildren
Her long and varied life
and the fact that “she never lost her marbles!”.

We all miss her.

Christine & Maureen xxx

POST-FUNERAL THANK YOU

Christine, Maureen, Angelo, Natalie and Daniel would like to say a huge thank you for making Mum’s funeral so very special.

She always wanted a large send off from family and friends and we thought that the Coronavirus restrictions would stop her from having that. We were wrong.

We need to say thank you to you all for...

the pre-funeral flowers,
the 70 condolence and sympathy cards,
the too many to mention whatsapp and text messages,
the 3 beautiful rose bushes and requests to buy a plant for the garden,
as well as 
the 11 people at the service,
the 50+ attendees online, which included New York, Canada, Holland, Turkey and family and friends across the UK,
the 27 floral tributes that meant that the hearse was so full of flowers that they had to bring another car,
the magnificent £656 collected in donations for our local ‘Hospice at Home’ service
and
the numerous post-funeral messages and calls complimenting the eulogy, the casket flowers and the choice of music.

We know that Mum was looking down and would have been proud.


Thank you everyone.