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Hi David thanks for your interest. Goodness knows what happened to my Dad's ashes. I do know that only men went to the funeral. It was the same when my paternal grandfather died many years later. He stipulated no females at his funeral. Something about not wanting them to get upset and over- wrought. However, my dad did not leave a will of any kind so this must have been his parents choice. I got nothing of my dad's except a few photos, his bible and the cash in of an insurance policy when I was 21. This amounted to a paltry sum of £25. He paid 2/6d a week from the day I was born until I was 9 and then it was frozen until I came of age. I did spend it all at once, much to the rest of the family's disgust. I bought a small gold cross and chain in his memory and I have worn it ever since. It has only been off my neck twice in 35 years, both times when I had to have operations in hospital and both times I insisted it was fastened to the palm of my hand with elastoplast.
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Pennine
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