It's sad, I'm so sorry.
Also, has anyone been to the live tour yet?
"And now I beleive we have some words from joes grand daughter, grace"
The priest announced and as he did a young girl stood up out of the crowd. Walking along the row, past her brother and her mum and dad, she walked the sort distance up the short aisle and then up to the front where she stood behind the stand decorated in white flowers. Flattening out her dress with her hands, she then pulled a peice of paper out of her pocket which she held infront of her.
Taking a deep breath, those first words then left her mouth.
"First of all, I would like to thank each one of you for coming today and I'm sorry that our beautiful family couldn't meet under better circumstances. To those of you who are friends, old colleagues or simply don't know me, my name is Grace dianne sugg and I'm joes grand daughter"
She said, introducing herself. The church was filled with so many people, some of whom she had been close with her whole life, some who she had never even met before.
"To be standing up at my grandfathers funeral, speaking infront of all you now, it was something I never expected doing. Growing up, I think there was a huge part of me that stupidly beleived my grandfather, or pop, as I knew him, was immortal and he would somehow outlive us all and be here until the last day. Deep down inside of me, especially as I grew older, I knew that wasn't true and I learnt that actually I had let myself beleive that because of the extraordinary man my pop was"
She began. This speech was something she had worked on for a good few weeks now. Discussions in the family had happened about who was going to take care of what. Grace had decided to take on the responsibility of saying a few words about her grandad joe, and had been working on what she was going to say ever since.
"Pop, as I'm sure you can all agree, was a very kind man. He loved golf, and fishing, and playing board games but most importantly, at his forefront of his heart was his family, which is what I beleive made him the person he was. He had two children, my auntie Francesca in 2026 and then my father, archie, two years later in 2028. My pop also had seven grandchildren, me included, who I know he each loved dearly, each of us as if we were his first born child"
She explained. Her family meant alot to her. There was alot of them. So there was lot of love to go around and there always had been.
"Pop also had four neices, and two nephews, all of whom went on to have their own children, so growing up there was alot of us. No matter what, whether you were pops; son, daughter, neice, nephew, granddaughter, grandson, you were no less important to him than anyone else. Pop was the kind of man who if he cut a birthday cake, made sure all the peices were equal so that everyone got the same, and at Christmas would count the presents to make sure nobody had more than somebody else, so as I'm sure you can see, he had alot of love to go around. One thing that strikes me though and will never leave me until my dying day, something that was so special about pop that made him so different to anyone else I have ever come across before, was the relationship he had with my grandmother, who we affectionately knew as nanny dot-dot"
Grace paused, feeling herself almost choke up. Her grandmother was someone who was special to her and even thinking about what she was about to say next made her emotional. She took a deep breath though, knowing she had to power on through.
"My pop and nanny, as I'm sure you all know had a relationship that wasn't even an ounce like anyone else's. Nanny was pops first ever girlfriend and they met on strictly come dancing, a TV show where a professional dancer would get partnered up with a celebrity and teach teach a new ballroom or Latin dance each week, one couple getting eliminated after each of those weeks, until the public voted for their winner in thr final. My pop, who at the time, was classed as what they knew as an 'internet' sensation, was asked to go on the show and after much persuasion gave in. I remember him always telling us stories about how he felt it would be embarrassing to dance on live TV infront of millions each week but glad that in the end he said yes. When I was little he always showed us grandkids, one of his old shriveled note book, and on one of those pages I vividly remember there being a pros and cons list that he had written, all with reasons as to why he shouldn't or why be should not do strictly. Cons: people may laugh at me, no social life. Pros: learn new skill, grandparents will love it, first dance at my wedding will be decent. It was safe to say that his first dance at his wedding was decent, because that's where he met his future wife, professional dancer, dianne buswell, my nanny.
