The Northern Echo - Memorials
Search Acknowledgements, Death Notices and In Memoriam within County Durham
I'm looking for celebrationsDeath Notice
Violet Agnes Green
Published on 01/05/2017
GREENWELL April 23 of Frosterley, Violet Agnes aged 93 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Norman, loving mother of Kenneth and Vivienne, a dear aunt of Peter, Andrina, Linda and Linda. Will friends please meet for service at Coundon Crematorium on Thursday, May 4 at 2.00p.m. No flowers by request, donations in lieu if desired to RSPCA.
Tributes
Create a tribute, leave a message or share a picture.
Sign in to add a tribute
Adam Greenwell
May 5th, 2017
On behalf of family and friends in New Zealand, I express deepest condolences, together with gratitude to our extended family and friends of my grandmother, Violet Greenwell.
I agree with my auntie's comment that we are a family fragmented around the world. However, occasions like this affirm that some things never fragment beyond physical distance.
Like the unfragmentable bonds of family, history, culture and our shared origins.
I'd like to share one short example from my grandmother's life that goes the heart of all that.
An example that, in my view, sums up my grandmother's special blend of toughness and tenderness.
As a young music enthusiast, I bought every album of music by a certain band whose lead singer I greatly admired and still do. My grandmother expressed her disapproval of strange sounds that a two-year-old could make, and whose lead singer had nothing at all to say except stand there like a can of tinned milk.
A year went by, I would put on a record, and every Vi Greenwell critique would make Simon Cowell look like Pollyanna.
Then Christmas came. One of my grandmother's presents to me was a biography of the band's lead singer - subtitled, "A Man Who Cared."
I think she chose that particular book because my grandmother also cared.
But most importantly, Vi demonstrated what family is all about: Supporting choices our loved ones make, even if they are not our own choices. But because those choices mean a lot to our loved ones.
Rest in Peace, Nana. Thank you for the memories and the lessons in life. Much love, Adam
I agree with my auntie's comment that we are a family fragmented around the world. However, occasions like this affirm that some things never fragment beyond physical distance.
Like the unfragmentable bonds of family, history, culture and our shared origins.
I'd like to share one short example from my grandmother's life that goes the heart of all that.
An example that, in my view, sums up my grandmother's special blend of toughness and tenderness.
As a young music enthusiast, I bought every album of music by a certain band whose lead singer I greatly admired and still do. My grandmother expressed her disapproval of strange sounds that a two-year-old could make, and whose lead singer had nothing at all to say except stand there like a can of tinned milk.
A year went by, I would put on a record, and every Vi Greenwell critique would make Simon Cowell look like Pollyanna.
Then Christmas came. One of my grandmother's presents to me was a biography of the band's lead singer - subtitled, "A Man Who Cared."
I think she chose that particular book because my grandmother also cared.
But most importantly, Vi demonstrated what family is all about: Supporting choices our loved ones make, even if they are not our own choices. But because those choices mean a lot to our loved ones.
Rest in Peace, Nana. Thank you for the memories and the lessons in life. Much love, Adam
Your tribute has been received.
Once your tribute has been approved by our moderators, it will appear on Violet Agnes Green's notice.
