| Location | Grays Essex |
| Age | 74 years |
| Date of Birth | 12/1932 |
| Date of Death | 12/2006 |
| Visitors | 216 since 17/08/2007 |
| Creator |
It was 1994 when I met Les for the first time. I was looking for my daughter Tina, who was with her friend, his daughter. I eventually found them at his house. I always remember my first words to him as he was rolling his cigarette, "you're not going to smoke that are you?" when he was in the room with our grandchildren. I'd forgotten that I was in his home. He went out the garden to smoke his cigarette and check on his flowers, as he was a great gardener. I realised my mistake of where I was and followed him out to his garden to apologise. He gave me a big beaming smile and said not to worry as he didn't smoke in the house anyway and certainly not with children around. I stayed in the garden with him, talking for ages about flowers and gardening, we seemed to hit it off as friends straight away. By the time I left, I'd got an invitation to call in any time I was passing his door. At the time, I lived in South Ockendon and was attending Adult College in Grays, again I went looking for my daughter on the way home from college one day and decided to take him up on his invitation and called in for a cup of tea. I was welcomed with open arms and ended up spending about 5 hours and never stopped talking.
After that day, I found that each time I was going to or from college, I would call in for a cup of tea and chat, which he informed me he looked forward to very much. So our friendship began....
Over the years, we grew that close that we went on holidays together, meals out, shopping and general days out. It was not a physical relationship even though he did ask me to marry him on two occasions. Our friendship was more platonic, we were BEST FRIENDS!
We found we had the same taste in music, films and many other interests.
He was a good listener and I was his advisor.
It was December last year (2006) when I lost my Best Friend... he had a bad chest, which I managed to get him to see a doctor about. Over the weeks it got worse and his breathing became painful. I was with him everyday and it was on one of these mornings (Sunday) when I was just leaving my house to make my way over to his home, when my mobile rang and it was his neighbour to say that he'd been rushed to hospital unwell. But when I arrived at the hospital, I had the biggest shock of my life - he'd passed away on the way to hospital. I'll never get over losing my closest friend ever. The reason I'm writing this memorial for him, is that his wishes were that he was to be cremated and his ashes scattered at his brothers grave in Portsmouth, the place Les loved. Les had been born and lived in Portsmouth until he was a young man. From there Les went into his ' beloved army ' - he had been in the 'Gunners' and very proud of it. I have no grave to vent my sorrow and feel that this site, Gone Too Soon, will help me ease the sorrow.
Les always called me 'His Lady' or 'My Lady Patsy' whenever he introduced me to others, and he certainly treated me like one. He was 15 years older than me, I respected him as a person .. I could never marry him as I didn't want to lose the close friendship that we held between us.
Les, I love and miss you so much... you'll never stop being my Best Friend. Love always your Lady, Patsy x x
Loving you still
Hi my friend I still miss our cups of tea and chats Les.
It is so hard to pass your old house and see some one else living there.
Les It has been my key board, thats given me all the trouble that is why I have not been online.
So with a new one all set up and ready to go we can now chat till our hearts content.
My friend Sally lost her mother three weeks ago. Do you remember me saying, I chat to Sally, she use to live in my house I have now. Well like us all who looses some one we love she, is so up set. I told her about (Gone to soon) and it is helping her, to say all the things to her mum, she felt she did not have time to say.
I now this help Les but I do miss you so much. Like I have said before I talk to your photo all the time. Well my friend its time to start working on the garden soon.
O and I start a new College tomorrow in Basildon. Yes an English class again and also creative Writing again in Aprile. Its been seventeen years college now Les, Do you think I have learnt any think yet. Well at my age ( Bloody hell Less, I'm sixty two this year).
Kids are all doing well. Linda and I often talk about you, she was over today for lunch. She was saying she is fifty eight this May too. Were do all the years go to. Well my darling no one gets any younger, its what you feel that counts and I feel like a thirty year old, ( but he will not feel like me) ha ha ha ha, yes thats me Ill never change. love and miss you so much, your Lady Patsy,
O I didn't tell you, I am a real Lady now, the kids got me a peace of land in Scotland and its named after me, also I have a Rose called Lady Patsy, that my Tina got me. The land is just large enough to plant my Rose on, but its mine and I have a certificate to prove it. Ha ha
Miss you love god bless xx Your Lady.
Friend
When some one has a friendship like ours
Where we chatted and laugh and talk about our flowers.
Then that sad day came and you went away,
To that bigger garden,were you chose to stay,
so dig away my friend, and prune the roses,
I will do the same, were I will think of us in many ways.
God bless my Fiend Les, you may have gone, but our friendship stays and grows just like our flowers, year after year.xxxxxxxxxxxx
Loving you still
Yes Les I still miss you so much, your house is sold darling. I find it hard not to call in when I pass and thats often as you now. You no I talk to your photo all the time, I still had to have our chats. Love and miss you darling. Your lady Patsy.
sorry
Patsy. Best friends are so very hard to come by. Nice to have read your story. Your best friend is now watching over you forever. God bless him and you.
Missing my Best Friend Les...
Friends may think we have forgotten
When at times they see us smile.
Little do they know the heartaches
That our smiles hide all the while.
Beautiful memories are wonderful things.
That last till the longest day.
They never wear out.
They never get lost and
can never be given away.
To some you may be forgotten.
To others apart of the past.
But to those who loved
and lost you
Your memory will always last
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