Loss, family and disappointment
It's been a big week - not trying to overstate it, just how it is. My father in law John Ernest Harrison, known as Jack, passed away peacefully in his own home last Saturday morning. He was 90, about eight weeks from his 91st birthday. He had been very sick after a bout of pneumonia that he picked up in hospital when he was admitted after a fall a couple of months ago. He was allowed home, where he wanted and needed to be and was in the loving care of family in his final days. My lovely bloke is the youngest of Jack's seven children. Jack's death was anticipated and expected, but still hard when it actually happened. Jack Harrison 18 July 1926 - 3 June 2017 As you can imagine with seven siblings and their partners and children in attendance Harrison family get togethers are loud and chaotic affairs. It is absolutely one of the upsides of sad occasions that family all converge, catch up and reminisce. All seven siblings and their partners were able to make it, 1