Dear dear Joan where do I start, I think I speak for every staff member at peartree 1 that was lucky enough to work with you when I say that we will genuinely miss you very, dearly dearly. The strength you showed through the years I was beside you showed me what an incredible person you really were, on reflection I wish I was lucky enough to know you before you became unwell. I have been looking at your pictures your beloved John has added and they are unrecognisable to me and although it's seems sad it's also lovely to see the lady you were before knowing me. I will forever remember our little chats and the long ones too and will treasure the time we had to me I haven't lost a client I have lost a friend, and a very dear one too. I will always be grateful for being able to be part your your story and I thank you dearly for that. Sleep tight sweetheart reunited with your little boy. I hope to see you again on the other side. All our love Mary and Rob xxxxxxxxx

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Joan. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.