Celebrating and remembering the long life of
Edwin Frederick (Ted) Hoy
21 December 1913 - 26 January 2015
Aged 101 Years
Funeral Service For Ted Hoy
Kapiti Coast Funeral Home, Paraparaumu
Thursday, 29 January 2015, at 1.00pm
Celebrant – Don Manning
Welcome and Introduction:
Verse:
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
(William Wordsworth)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Eulogy and Tributes:
Don Manning
Family
Memory Time:
I Love You Because
Jim Reeves
Verse:
On A Friend
(Robert Burns)
An honest man here lies at rest,
As ‘ere God with his image blessed.
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age and guide of youth.
Few hearts like his with virtue warm’d
Few heads with knowledge so informed
If there’s another world he lives in bliss
If there is none, he made the best of this.
RSA Tribute:
Alan Dempsey
Binyon’s Lines
They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
Commendation:
Recessional:
Au Fond Du Temple Saint
(Duet from The Pearl Fishers)