In loving memory of

Eleanor Hale

A service of remembrance, 1943 to 2026

A service of remembrance for Eleanor Hale, followed by tea at the parish hall. All who knew her are welcome.

The family are grateful for the kindness shown these past weeks. There is no dress code. Come as you would have come to her kitchen.

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The order of the day

10:30 AM
The chapel opens
St Anne’s Chapel
Please sit wherever you like. The front two rows are kept for family.
11:00 AM
The service begins
The Reverend Martin Boyd
St Anne’s Chapel
11:10 AM
Eulogy
Peter Hale
St Anne’s Chapel
Given by her son.
11:25 AM
Reading
Miriam Hale-Okonjo
St Anne’s Chapel
From Ecclesiastes, chapter three.
11:35 AM
Hymn
St Anne’s Chapel
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.
11:50 AM
Committal
Riverview Cemetery
The family will go on to Riverview alone, and rejoin everyone at the hall.
12:30 PM
Tea at the parish hall
The Parish Hall
Across the courtyard. Level access from Willow Row.

At the table

$2,150

of $5,000 · 43%

Messages

Thank you for sharing in our remembrance.

Miriam Hale-Okonjo
She taught me to read music at her kitchen table, with the radio on and the dog asleep under it. I have never once played a piece without thinking of that room.
Peter Hale
My mother kept a list of every person she had lent a book to. It ran to nine pages. She never once asked for one back.
Ada Lindqvist
Eleanor came to the ward every Tuesday for eleven years. She did not miss one, and she did not talk about it either. Half the staff never knew she was a volunteer.
Ruth Nkemelu
When we arrived in Portland in 1987 she was the first person on the street to knock. She brought a casserole and a bus timetable, which was exactly what we needed.
Daniel Okonjo
I married into this family and she made it feel like no such thing had happened. She simply started calling me on Sundays.
Frances Whitlow
Forty years of the same allotment path, and forty years of her talking me out of giving up on the raspberries. She was right every time.
Anthony Reid
She proofread my thesis in 1994 and returned it with one comment: "This is good, and it is too long." Best editorial advice I ever had.
Beatrice Lam
We sang beside each other in the choir for nineteen years. She always found the note first and never let on that she had.