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Brenda Cochrane
31 March 1949 - 25 December 2003
Funeral Service - 5 January 2003
St Michael and All Angels Church
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich
Suffolk
Donations
If you would like to make a donation to charity in memory of Brenda, please consider the following:
- Macmillan Cancer Relief, Supporter Services, FREEPOST LON16080, London, SE1 7BR
- The Stroke Association, Northampton Resource Centre, 61-69 Derngate, Northampton, NN1 1HD
All flowers were donated to St Elizabeth's Hospice
1 Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring Your love
Where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in You
Oh Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved, as to love with all my soul.
2 Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, only light;
And where there's sadness, ever joy
Oh Master..
3 Make me a channel of Your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life
Reading - 1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Family Tribute
Peter Cochrane:
"The thing I really like about our species is that we are at our very best when things are at their worst"
Poem
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home.
William Wordsworth
Community Tribute
The Reverend Elizabeth Corker
Prayers
The Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For Thine is the Kingdom,
The power and the glory
For ever and ever Amen
Hymn
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
1 Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings.
He made their glowing colours,
He made their tiny wings.
All things bright€
2 The purple headed mountain,
The river running by,
The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky.
All things bright€
3 The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden,
He made them every one.
All things bright€
4 He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell,
How great is God almighty,
Who has made all things well.
All things bright€
Committal
Hymn
Amazing grace- how sweet the sound -
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind but now I see.
2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed
3 Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
4 When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.
The family would like to send our warmest thanks to everyone for just being there for us. It's been amazing to realise just how many friends we have who are ready to give their support and comfort and lend a helping hand. You are truly generous of heart and spirit.
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