A letter of gratitude (1999)

Parents’ letter, March 1999.
Excerpt from the parents’ letter in Newsletter No. 17 (Easter 1999), p. 2; not a portrait of the family.

In a letter written in March 1999, Neville and Nancy thanked the team at Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre & Hospice. Their daughter had received care there in the final days of her life. The parents described the staff’s kindness and attention and were grateful that their daughter could die with dignity.

The newsletter gives neither their daughter’s name nor details of her illness. The image is an excerpt from the letter published at the time; it is not a portrait of the family.

Source: Newsletter No. 17 (Easter 1999), p. 2. The date shown is the newsletter issue date; the letter itself was written in March 1999.


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