To Love is to be Happy With.

Annie and myself in Cardiff Bay four weeks before the end

A month before the end of an almost two year battle with lung cancer which had spread to her spine and then brain.

She was everything any man could ever ask for in a wife – loving, caring, honest, faithful, trusting, and full of life and fun.

It took her almost ten years to say yes to my proposals, although I asked her sometimes daily, sometimes weekly.  Every time she said no, I merely said “I will wait, you will eventually say yes.

We became great friends during that time, until one day she finally said “Do you still want to marry me?”.

Ten days later we were married.

Melody Ann 20 November 1958 to 4 September 2008

Twenty nine good years as friend and then wife.

She loved her golf.

She loved her friends.

She loved her family.

She loved life.

Physically gone, but still with me in spirit, and in my memories.

She had an inner beauty that few people have.

May she rest in peace.

And as we say in Jamaica,  “Give thanks”.

Chris Aguilar.