Elizabeth Mary Catherine Rountree
Züchterin „unserer“ Tasco Hunde: 1945 – 2003
Völlig unerwartet verstarb am 14. Mai 2003 Mary Rountree. Als Züchterin unserer „TASCO“-Hunde aber vor allem als wertvolle Freundin werden wir sie stets in Erinnerung behalten.
Im Gottesdienst nach Marys Beerdigung hat eines ihrer Patenkinder folgenden Text vorgetragen, dem wir gar nichts weiter zufügen möchten.
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without an effort, without a trace of shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant; it is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Canon Henry Scott Holland
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without an effort, without a trace of shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant; it is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Canon Henry Scott Holland
