This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Jean Leiper - Niven, 83, born on November 11, 1927 and passed away on September 2, 2011. In Insch War Memorial Hospital, Aberdeenshire Scotland. We will remember her forever.
Remembrance day brings us to your birthday too
This day is full of memories, especially of you.
Much loved, always
Liz xx
This 2020 has been a very strange year, even so you are always near.
I am pleased to see some new photos of you have been added here.
I think of you daily, sometimes even have a 'silent chat'
Rest easy Mum
Love Always
Liz xx
Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and ever dear.
Love Les and Sue xx
Thinking of you again on my birthday. Thank you for all you did for us and I will always miss you. I will have a wee toast to you tonight. Love Ian xxx
You are always in our thoughts but even more so on this day.
Birthday wishes and our love always.
Les and Sue xx
Sending Birthday wishes and hugs your way.
Always on my mind forever in my heart.
Lots of Love Barbara xxxxxxxxxxx
We should all be gathered round you today, celebrating your birthday.
I will just say:
we remember you now in love,
Your life from start to end,
And we’re just glad we knew you,
As our Mother, and as our friend.
Liz xx
Yet again my birthday has passed, I am a year older and my thoughts turn to the 2nd September when you left us. I hope you are happy now wherever you are because you deserve it. You raised all your children, pretty much on your own and I think we all appreciate everything you ever did for us. Miss you lots mum from a proud son xx
8 years have passed since you were taken away from us all.
You are sadly missed and always will be
Love David and family xx
8 years ago today memories of that day still clear in my mind. I have seen some lovely words written about you today you were a special woman and a special Mum who didn't have an easy life but you fought the fight and made us all better people. I think of you everyday and and everyday I wish you could still be with us. Missed but always in my heart love you Mum - Barbara xx
Eight years have now passed since we said our farewells though -
Those we love don't go away, they walk besides us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and ever dear.
Love Les and Sue xx
I notice the clock at 11.11 and I think Happy Birthday Mum
I always loved your sense of fun
I'm grateful for the many things you taught us all, about how to be ourself and stand tall
You were our rock - always there to cling to in tough and stormy times
Never forgotten, always loved xx
Liz
91 years young today if you were still with us.
You are with us in spirit though.
Love David and family xx
and it is the 100th anniversary of the the day the guns fell silent in the First World War
A momentous day in which you are at the forefront of my mind, missing you as much as ever
Love always
Liz xx <3
I can't believe it is 7 years today you had to go away. Not a day goes by when I don't think about you. You are always in my thoughts and will never be forgotten. Love you always Mum Barbara xoxoxo
7 years gone by already
You are non the less always nearby
Never forgotten and forever loved
Liz xx
Seven years have now passed since you went away,
Within our hearts you are loved and missed every day.
Love always,
Les and Sue xx
Miss you as much as ever and thinking of you on what would be your 90th birthday. Love and respect always.
Ian xx
Thinking of you today more than ever on your 90th Birthday.
Miss you everyday. Always in my thoughts, Lots of Love Barbara xxxx
It's that time of year again when memories of the night we lost you come flooding back. 6 years have gone by now and I still can't believe you have gone. I had some news earlier this year that I would have loved to share with you but I coudn't I do wish you could have been here. I hope you are resting well missing you everyday. Lots of love always Barbara xx
Six years have now passed since we said our farewells though -
Those we love don't go away, they walk besides us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and ever dear.
Love Les and Sue xx
That's your wee loon hit 50! I wish you were still here to celebrate with me (maybe with a sneaky martini and lemonade!) but I will be having a nice large glass of red wine for me and another for you tonight. Thanks for everything mum. Love Ian xx
Forever thinking of you and today is a sad reminder of the day you were taken from us 6 years ago. Miss you,
David xx
missing you very much today
especially with it being Mothering Sunday
Having had a funeral for one of your old neighbours Wullie Will yesterday and your good friend Margret's Charlie passing away and buried on Tuesday this has been a week of sad/sweet memories
Love always
Liz xx
Miss you more and more each day.
Lots of Love Barbara xx
I put flowers out for you bonny red roses and rich burgandy through to pink gerberas. I know you'd love the colours.
It's a real autumn leafy scene there now at your resting place.
Think of you daily Mum but on your birthday even more so
Love Liz xx
Ever in our thoughts but even more so today - your Birthday.
Love always,
Les and Sue xx
Happy Birthday to you. Thinking of you today as I do everyday. I have raised a glass to you and bought a wee bunch of flowers too which are sitting on the dining table looking lovely. I think you would like them. Hope your resting well. Lots of Love always and forever Barbara xx
I'm away at work just as I was for too many of your birthdays when you were still with us. Thinking of you as always,
Love
David xx
We have all said how fast they've gone,
but the memories of laughs and love linger on
Hope you like the flowers David and I put out for you Roses, Freesias and Carnations in all your favourite colours
Five years have now passed since you went away,
Within our hearts you are loved and missed every day.
Love always,
Les and Sue xx
Love Ian xx
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Mother of seven
A memory from long ago, when were we based in Rotorua, well Ngongotaha, and still had Dad with us.
Being Mum to seven kids was always a busy hectic time, each day much the same as the one before.
Washing, cooking, cleaning, caring for the little ones.
This particular day Mum and I went, with the two youngest boys, to do the shopping.
All went pretty well, no-one fell and hurt themself, or got lost, we managed to get everything we were needing too!
When we got home one wee chap needed his bottle and put to bed for a nap and we needed feeding too.
I bottle fed and changed our youngest, after helping Mum unpack the shopping bags.
Lunch was duely made, consumed and the dishes done, 2nd youngest went out to play with a pal, and as Mum and I were about to sit down for a cuppa, she suddenly realised she had not seen her purse since returning from the shops!
Well we searched the shopping bags, the little fellas pram, looked high and low to no avail.
I can still hear her saying (in her bonny Scot's accent) 'fars ma purse..oh meee, fit hiv a deen wi it' !?!
A cup of tea while the pot was still hot, that was the ticket...sit quietly and think, because she was sure she had her purse with her when we left the shops
Mum put out the cups and poured the tea, I went to the fridge for the milk.
Lo and behold! What was this?
Sitting by the new pack of butter in the fridge....Mum's purse!
Well we laughed and laughed, she must have put it there while putting the butter and milk away!
Poor Mum was always so busy thinking twenty steps ahead, planning dinner while ironing or doing the washing and cleaning the house, making beds etc...she just was always on the go!
Little wonder she lost her purse from time to time, in fact amazing she did not lose her sanity with us lot!
You taught us all to be organised and self sufficient Mum, ( 'dinae dee fit I dee, dee fit I say'...was a frequently used term), shared some grand stories and good laughs.
Hope you are at peace and able to relax now.
Love always,
Liz
Mums Visit to Sydney for her 70th
Mum came to visit me in Sydney November 1997 and we had the best time. Some of the time she was home on her own while I was at work so when I came home I would say to her what did you do today and she would sayy I went for a walk here etc she walked places I had never been too. On the weekends we went out and did things and one Sunday we walked down the end of my street to Botany Bay and sunbathed on the beach there. Mum was wearing a straw hat to keep the sun off her head and a sudden gust of wind came up and blew the hat off her head. So me being a good daughter haha set foot to retrieve the hat well everytime I went to pick it up of the sand a gust of wind would blow it away and further up the beach. After running a fair didstance I managed to get the hat. I got back to Mum exhausted and breathless and she was just laughing her head off at how funny it was that everytime I bent down the hat blew away again. Was a real laugh. My good friends Hans and Esma and Jenny joined Mum and I for Mums 70th birthday dinner. Esma kindly organised a white stretch limo to pick us up and take us the 15 minute ride into The Rocks at Sydney Harbour. Mum didn'y know about the limo, we thought we would surpirse her so I was keeping an eye for it coming and when it turned up I said to Mum right lets go thats the taxi (she couldn't see the limo until we got further down the drive). When we got in sight of the limo she said thats not for us is it and I said yip thats our taxi ride into town. She just beamed a big smile and climbed in like quite the thing and sat back with a glass of Champagne enjoying the ride and the view. When we got to the Harbour a mob of Japanese tourists surrounded the limo cameras at the ready wondering which celebrity was arriving. Well Mum was first out and she flashes a big smile and says "its only me". The Japanese weren't sure who she was obviously but were disappointed I think that it wasn't Nicole Kidman or Russell Crowe. Yet another funny moment. Also while Mum was in Sydney Michael Hutchence from INXS committed suicide (accidentally??) and his funeral was aired live on t.v. It was through the week so when I got home from work I got in the door and Mum was all puffy eyed and looked emotional. I said whats wrong have you been crying. Aye she says I was watching Michael Hutchence funeral and it was afa emotional I've sat here greeting a efternein. I laughed coz it was so cute a 70 year old woman getting emotional over a rock stars funeral. We went to New Zealand for 2 weeks as well during Christmas and New Year and had a great time visiting family and friends and it was great she got some time with our dear brother Alistair who sadly passed away February 2011, 7 months before Mum. I have many Mum stories but the time she spent with me in Sydney/New Zealand was the best time ever and after she left to go back to Scotland I was so lost without her for a good month. I would go to places we had been and cry because I missed her so much and that feeling is with me now permanently because the empty lost feeling I felt then is with me all the time now because we won't ever share laughs like we did then ever again but I know she is with me and is watching over me. I love you Mum so much and miss you more than words can say. Hope you are up there looking down on me and getting a laugh some of the time. xxxxx