We created this page for all of you to add your thoughts, photographs, videos and comments which represent your memories of our darling daughter and sister, Becca.
We would like to thank everyone for all of your kind words and loving thoughts that you have shared with us, she was so lucky to have so many wonderful people around her that loved her so dearly.
With all our love,
Mark, Corinne, Gabriella, & Benjamin
xoxo
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I wrote a poem for you. It has been seen by the family, but I thought I'd share it here with your friends. Just a little act to say, you are and will be forever in our hearts and forever missed.
Aunty Paula, New Zealand xx
REBECCA
By Paula de Roeper
She gazes out from the photograph
Large crystal eyes
Reflecting her shining heart.
Pale clothes, pale skin, a wistful smile
Stepping lightly upon the path
Of her life,
Until at last she takes her final step.
Light and graceful, she takes flight.
And as she soars higher in her blissful
Sense of freedom
She is caught in the wings of Divine Love
Lifted even higher than she thought possible.
Enveloped by the Angels.
Protected by the Light that has always been within her,
now surrounding her, showing her the way home.
And when they see her soul
Hearts open in an embrace of excitement
“You are home now my love”
They will cry
And with a look over her shoulder
She blows a kiss of love to those behind
“And now, now I can fly” she whispers.
An Angel always Beside You.
There isn’t any time I don’t think of you, remember your smile, or your nature. I have wanted to write something on here for you since I set up this page with Gabs back in November, but it’s taken until now to come even remotely close to knowing what I wanted to say.
You were a sister to me for so much of your life, and I’ll always be grateful I had a chance to call you my sister in law. To me this wasn’t you becoming anything new to me as I already thought of you as my little sister, but it was a moment for me to be proud of the new addition I had to my family, and a chance to be excited about the future.
I will always remember your humour; your sharp sense of timing and dry delivery was what always got me. I’ll always remember how you used to like to dress me up in tutu’s and zebra print leggings. I’ll always remember how your life came with its own colour scheme and dress code. I think 6 months after we lost you, we have all started to worry we will forget the little things about you that made you who you are, but I’m positive it’s those very characteristics and quirks that will make it impossible to forgot anything about you. Every bit of who you were was so strong that we will be reminded of so many happy memories we shared with you, every day as we move through our lives.
I knew you for almost half of your life, I watched you grow up from a giggling ballerina who loved to embarrass her sister with stringy pants comments, to an extremely driven but popular young lady. It shows so much about who you were as a person, that we have heard so many wonderful stories from such a wide ranging selection of people about the kind, considerate, and funny you were.
For the last six months I’ve tried to understand what has happened, and I honestly don’t feel much closer to an answer than I did at day one. Understanding losing you isn’t black and white, the finish line isn’t what we expected, and we might reach it at a different pace than we planned, but I’ve learnt to appreciate what is important more, fight for the things I care about harder, and to try to forget those trivial irritations in life more often.
For everything you have taught me about who I should be as a person, I will be forever grateful, I don’t have the words to list them here.
I can’t wait to tell my future about you, there won’t be a day you aren’t in my mind.
I love you and I miss you Becs,
Benj
xoxo
I'm sorry I haven't been able to write this sooner I guess a part of me has just been so desperate for me to not need to write this, for you to still be right here. I'm still struggling to know what to say. I miss you more and more with each passing day, your impeccable whiteness(I am yet to meet someone who owns anywhere near as many pieces of white clothing as you!) our random conversations, your smile, your laugh..... What I'm trying to say Becca, is that I love you more than you ever knew and miss you more than you could imagine. You are beautiful in every single way and I will never ever forget that. Thank you for everything xxxxxxxxx
Becca,
A few days ago I went to see you, I got to say everything that I wanted to.... How I'd miss you, how I love you, I got to Thankyou and I got to say goodbye. But I don't want anyone to think for one minute that this is going to be my lasting memory of you because I can assure you it's not. I'll remember the Maltezer eating contests, our awful singing, the walks with Tallie, your infectious laugh, Your ability to eat an entire family sized chocolate cake still astounds me (seriously Becca I was out of the room for 10 minuets and it was gone), our pointless conversations, the odd looks you'd give me across a room to make me laugh (I didn't have to speak to you to know you were there), our risqué inside jokes, your ability to listen to me without any judgement, your absolute weirdness that I have always loved you for, and your acceptance of my weirdness - you are one of the only people I can truly be myself around, your undying love for chocolate, the fact that you could trip over anything even if there was nothing there, your welsh accent, that one time you thought you were gay ("I like holding hands with girls"), your acceptance of my need of a secret handshake, the hatred you had for your braces, your chop stick skill that I could never challenge, your ridiculous ability to keep everything white, the way you used humour to get your frustration out, your ability to get me out of my shell, our incredible chav accents - I can't even remember how to do it anymore without you, your endless film quotations (I would have no clue what you were quoting but I'd appreciate it all the same), your constant need for a plan - if there wasn't one you'd be making it, your love for music whether it was Michael buble or some form of rap you could always keep up with it word for word, our attempts to sledge - they were never particularly successful, the fact that you'd dance with me no matter how embarrassing I got - I don't think I'll ever find a dance partner who is up for doing electric air guitar solos with me in the middle of prom despite not having drunk a thing, your kindness, your ridiculous supply of fluffy socks, the way you'd always be boiling when I was freezing, your overexcitement about the smallest of things, the knowledge that I could always go to you - rely on you, you could make anyone smile even when there was nothing to smile about. I will miss this all, every tiny detail of you - six years was not nearly long enough with you, and I will spend the rest of my life wishing it were longer. I'll never want to say goodbye but I have to, and that fills me with more sadness then I think I will ever feel, I love you Becca. I will complete the plans we made together but none of them and nothing will be the same without you - you were one of few people I knew were going to be in my life for the long run. And now your not. You meant, and mean more to me then you will ever know.
Farewell my friend - Iona x
Last year in summer Rebecca lived in our house for two weeks while she attended an internship in the primary school of our village. In the morning she went to school with a big smile in her face. Pupils were just happy with her and the teachers she supported were very content.
During that time the song “Shut up and dance” was popular in the German radio. Whenever the song was played she immediately joined in with her nice voice. For us, this very song became her song.
Rebecca, we will always keep you in our heart. We pray for you.
Lots of love to you and to Corinne, Mark, Gabriella and Ben xxx
Karla, Georg with family
Every second that I spent with you was filled with beautiful smiles, contagious laughter and our constant chatter that would last for hours. Growing up with you has given me so many amazing memories and you have really impacted on who I am today, I cannot thank you enough for how happy you made me. I can't even express how much I already miss you.
I will love you forever Becca x
We first met at Guides where I remember one evening watching the fireworks at Fram College. We kept laughing throughout the night despite it being absolutely freezing! We lost contact for a few years so when I found out we both had a job at The White Horse I was so happy! It was lovely working with you, always giggling and smiling. You were the best at getting the glasses out the glass washer - how were you so strong?!
BEEEG won't be the same. We will all really miss you, Becca.
trust me, I miss you so much and so does everyone else!
Sleep right beautugil girl! <3 you'll be forever missed xxxx
I will never forget her or any of the times I spent with her. I will always miss her and seeing her smile around school everyday.
Forever loving and missing you Becca <3
I had the pleasure of meeting Becca whilst working with her during the summer. The few shifts I had with her are filled with laughter and her smile. She was a lovely person and I am glad I had the opportunity to work with her. RIP ❤
Love lindsay, kevin and family xxx
My beautiful niece Rebecca (Becca) will be forever in our hearts. Her light shone brightly for the 16, almost 17, years she was with us and her tender love touched us all. Our world was just too harsh for this sensitive and radiant soul. Now she is held in the arms of the angels and surrounded by Divine light and love. Always loved, never forgotten.
A friend of mine lost a child a few years ago. She sent me a text which I would like to share:
.......... nothing can take the pain away, though it heals in time. It will feel like their world, reality and energy has been smashed into a million pieces. It is so deep and profound the way this is registered within one's energy, that it belongs to a category of its own. The mind will want to make sense of it but won't be able to. Gentleness and letting love and Spirit (God, the Divine) support is the only thing that works. No one who goes through this does it alone. I send them and you my prayers of support as someone who knows.
My daughters and I picked flowers. We put some in a vase and lit a candle. The candle burns every day on our table beside the flowers. A soft gossamer pale pink ribbon surrounds these items. We held hands and prayed for Becca with the candle in the middle. We have walked to a river near where we live, with a bowl full of flowers from our garden. Each flower was thrown individually into the river with special words for Becca. Sometimes it was a sentence, sometimes just a single word. The flowers floated away on the current. They looked beautiful in the New Zealand Spring sunlight. Representing the beauty that was Becca, her softness, her charm, her light, her love, her very presence. They floated away, as she has floated away. An angelic gift who came to us for a short time, and now has returned to the place that suits her best - a place of pure love.
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A poem by Henry van Dyke:
Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying...
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Walk into the arms of loved ones who have gone before you and who greet you now Becca. Let them hold you and love you and support you - in the safe keeping of Divine Love forever.
And in my heart there is a special, soft and warm place for you, where tender love surrounds you always.
Your loving Aunty, Paula xxx
My thoughts are with your family,lots of love.❤️
We were also dancers together in the lower school production of breakers yard and we would end up in fits of giggles for most of the rehearsals because lets say my dancing was not the best! We ended up on the same bus again last year,and with out a doubt she never failed to make me laugh and smile.
Becca was honestly one of the kindest people I have ever met, her amazing laugh will never be forgotten and our friendship and memories will always make me smile. Loads of Love Becca, rest in peace xoxo
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A selfie lesson with my beautiful niece. X
I love and cherish these photos of us Bec's. X
You are teaching me how to do selfies :-)
We are celebrating at Gab's Hen Party.
A very happy day. xx
My heart aches darling.
I miss you.
We all miss you. X
Thank you for the light you continually shine upon us.
You are with us always, as we are always with you.
I love you.
Aunty Rachel xxxx