My mother Annice died at 5a.m. on january the first 2010 .My father , younger sister and myself were with her as she slipped away . I know I can speak for all of us when I say it was the worst time of our lives .The hole she has left in all our lives will never be filled . I always knew I loved her just never realised how much till it was too late . She was taken from us quite unexpectedly really . The cancer was too far advanced when they found it , a bit of a sore point with me . She was just our mother and we all loved her to bits the three of us myself and my sister and of course our dad. she was married to our father James William happily for 62 years till the day she passed away and they never had an arguement in all that time . Well maybe one when my dad went to the library for a book and came back with a new car . Annice was a very artistic lady she could turn her hand to anything . She would take a fancy to something and off she would go crocheting , painting , knitting ,embroidery , cross stitch , glass painting, even playing musical instruments . Her last big thing was making Christmas , Birthday , all kinds of cards and they were wonderful too . She really could do so much peggy rugs , calligraphy her talents were endless . My dad worked down the pit most of his working life leaving him with emphysema . Mother took it all in her stride they were a team and worked like one shared everything . About eight years ago they bought a caravan at Mablethorpe a large static one . They took to it like ducks to water come november and they had to return to Their home for three months ,till the site re-opened in march they sort of got a depression . We would take them down to the van in March and you could see the change in both of them . They lit up they loved it down there . My dad had his computer to play cards on , mother her hobbies . We used to go down about once a fortnight to see them make sure they were ok and to be honest they usually were . She was always glad to see us and looked a bit sad when they waved us off on a Sunday morning as we returned home to get ready for work on Monday Morning . Dad sold the van after mothers death we still go down to Mablethorpe though as we scattered mams ashes there and it is a bit of a pilgramage now to say hello and what ever else . Today 9/1/2013 in the early hours our dad passed away and joined our mam . He has been ill for a long time and was very tired . Loosing him is the hardest thing . He worked hard all his life his last job was as Overman down Denby Grange coal mine . He was well respected and liked by all that knew him . I worked down the mine with him for a short while he was a good fair man for sure and is missed so much by his family . We scattered Dads Ashes in the same place as our mothers it felt right to reunite them so to speak . How good it would be to see them together again really do miss them so much .