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Post date: 16-Apr-2020 18:42:10
Aunty Dot will have her little joke - even after death! Joey rang her solicitor and he emailed a copy of her will, whic she updated only a cuople of months ago. She doesn't have much money to leave, so most of it is taken up with distributnig her personal effects around the family. She even included jonah, which is where her sense of humour came in. Knowing perfectly well that he doesn't believe in "all that papish nonsense" as he would have put it (quoting his father, who wasa Baptist pastor and ratehr set in his ways), she's left him a rosary and a holy water font dedicated othe the sacred heart! He's also to have a collection of her notebooks from the drawer in her desk. We none of us know what may be in them and Joey and I hope they don't contain any guilty secrets from our childhoods tha twe dont; want the rest of the family to know about!
Joey and I are executors and residual legatees. I've offered to do the paperwork around applying for probate, but Joey will have to do the legwork going through her savings accounts. She had a funeral plan with the Co-op, so that's all paid for, butwe still don;t know whaty sort of funeral will be possible under the current restrictions. They said on the news this morning that funeral directors are complaining that some local authorities are being unnecessarily restrictive about how many mourners are allowe to attend. Joey's going to talk to the Co-op tomorrow to find out what's allowed in Liverpool. Aunty Dot has opted for cremation, because she doesn't want to give anyone else the responsibility of caring for a grave. That's a bit unusual for a Catholic of her generation, but typical of her down-to-earth approach to life. I imagine it will be up to the crematorium authorities to decide how many people can be there.
My own legacy is Dot's Sunday Missal (a hint that she wants ot see be safely back inside the Catholic fold, perhaps!) and a photograph album. Joey gets an album too. We assume they must be family photos, but we won't know until her things are released from the Care Home. They have to be thoroughly cleaned before they can be handed over.
Lucy and Mariam both get chapel veils, and Lucy also gets a collection of nursing memorabilia fro Authy Dot's time at the Royal Liverpool. Even Ibrahim hasn't been forgotten. She's left him a picture of his namesake, Abraham, at the moment of sacrificing Isaac (or Ishmael, if you prefer the Qur'anic version of the story!)