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18 Sep 2011

Hello you have reached the main page for Rosie Reed who sadly died earlier this month. You can make a donation to St Christopher's Hospice on this page, however please click "Read more" to read the full message and see links to alternative cancer charities.

 

Whether you knew Rosie for a long time or not you probably remember what a wonderfully joyful and giving person she was and she is so missed by her family and friends.

 

Rosie fought very bravely against ovarian cancer for the past two years and did not complain once during all the treatments and suffering she underwent.She was looked after brilliantly by a number of doctors, from her GP to her surgeon and then St Bartholomew's hospital led by Professor Iain McNeish and his wonderful team of doctors and nurses.  When unfortunately it became clear that further chemotherapy was unlikely to work and Rosie consequently became very sick she came under the care of St Christopher's Hospice where after care at home she then spent the last three weeks of her life. It is hard to praise St Christopher's enough, their combination of medical expertise in palliative care and compassion made all the difference to Rosie and let her end her days as comfortably as possible and with peace of mind for both herself and her family.

 

Hence if you would like to make a donation to St Christopher's it would be going to a very worthwhile cause particularly since they need to raise a lot of money from donations to keep going.  However, there are also two alternative charities to which you may prefer to donate and which we are sure Rosie would be very happy to support namely Ovarian Cancer Action and Cancer Research UK (where the money will be specified for Ovarian Cancer). These are also two very worthwhile charities where you would be helping towards making women more aware of the silent threat of ovarian cancer and hopefully to finding some better treatments and God willing a cure.  Unfortunately we can't add these charities directly to this page but if you click on either of these links below you will be taken directly to the relevant page where you can make your donation.

For Ovarian Cancer Action click:

http://www.justgiving.com/Rosie-Reed0

 

For Cancer Research click:

http://www.justgiving.com/Rosie-Reed1

Alternatively if you would prefer to donate by cheque then please contact the funeral directors J&R Killick Ltd on 0208 777 4502 who will guide you on what is necessary.

Thank you so much for reading this and for any donations. We hope that your happy memories of Rosie will always stay with you, and take this opportunity to thank all our friends, family, schools and work colleagues whose support has been so fantastic, Robert, Alex, Tom, Ben and Joe

 

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St Christopher's Hospice

St Christopher's Hospice

Charity Registration No. 210667

St Christopher's Hospice provides free care to around 2000 dying patients each year with a further 850 patients cared for at home each day. We must raise around £14 million each year to enable us to provide these services to patients and their families from Croydon, Bromley and South East London.

Donations 89

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Always in our thoughts.

Donation by Terry & Linda Crewes on 16/06/12

£100.00

+ £25.00 Gift Aid

Donation by Clare Davies on 28/01/12

£10.00

Dear Rosie, Rest in peace.

Donation by Farrell Family on 12/12/11

£30.00

Dear Rosie. Rest in peace.

Donation by marie Jameson on 21/10/11

Dear Rosie, May the choirs of Angels come to greet you, and may they speed you to the Lord's House. Chris, Helene, James and Michael

Donation by Christopher Hibbert on 17/10/11

All our love, dearest Rosie. You continue to be an inspiration.

Donation by Kathryn Bradley-Hole on 13/10/11

£150.00

+ £37.50 Gift Aid

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Thankyou, Rosie, for the joy you gave in life and the inspiration you gave in death.

Donation by Anonymous on 11/10/11

Donation by suzanne mapp on 10/10/11

£30.00

+ £7.50 Gift Aid

Hello, sending you and the family every good wish from all of us in Los Angeles and South Africa. Many happy memories of Rosie with love

Donation by Rosina Jacobs on 09/10/11

£100.00

Rosie, I was so lucky to have known you. Your love for life and your family was amazing, and so were you. Much love xx

Donation by Rebecca Eriksen on 09/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Rosie I didn't know you for long, but you were a beautiful and special person and I was blessed to have spent time with you. xxx

Donation by Marissa Simmonds on 06/10/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

You are in our thoughts and prayers

Donation by The Conways on 04/10/11

Donation by Anonymous on 04/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Rosie will always be in our hearts and never forgotten. She truely was an inspiration and will continue to be. Love to you all.

Donation by Mary Bob Alex Peter and Claire on 03/10/11

Robert, we morn your loss and wish you the strenght to move forward as rosie would wish,

Donation by Rick, Nate and Mike on 03/10/11

£150.00

In memory of a wonderful lady, who will be missed by many

Donation by Sue Lawlor on 02/10/11

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Always a smile for everyone, never a bad word for anyone, that was Rosie. Love Claire and Ivor

Donation by Ivor Marsden on 30/09/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

What a perfect send off yesterday. I am sure Rosie was very proud of all of you. We have lost a ray of sunshine but gained an inspiration.

Donation by Liz Jones and family on 30/09/11

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

What a beautiful service yesterday, keeping you all in our prayers with love Mark and Aedin

Donation by Aedin Carlisle on 30/09/11

£100.00

I will always remember your lovely smile. You will be missed by so many people. With love from Angela, Tom, Emily and Zoe Beirne

Donation by Angela Beirne on 30/09/11

RIP Rosie, Your Boys are in our prayers. Iwona and Marek

Donation by Iwona Wiseman on 30/09/11

£150.00

+ £37.50 Gift Aid

Robert, Keeping you and the boys in my thoughts and prayers. Simon.

Donation by Simon Trowell on 30/09/11

Donation by Catherine Melotta on 29/09/11

£20.00

With love and prayers to you all, Rosie was a lovely lady always willing to help anybody. She loved her family Pauline Muggridge xx

Donation by Pauline Muggridge on 29/09/11

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rosie, her family and her many friends.

Donation by Carol, Stephen, Jared & Dominic Walsh on 29/09/11

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£5,640.00
  • Offline donations£0.00
  • Text donations£0.00
  • Total raised£5,640.00
  • Gift Aid£996.25

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