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John Harkins

(17th January 1943 - 18th February 2024)

In loving memory of John Harkins who passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on 18th February 2024.

Very dearly loved husband to Margaret, much cherished father to Adrian, Edward and Katie, adored grandfather to eight lovely grandchildren, much loved brother to Frank and cousin to Cathy.

Funeral and Private burial for the family.

A Funeral Service will be held at St Michael’s Church, Ashtead, Surrey on Thursday 21st March 2024 at 2pm.

No flowers please. Donations, if wished, to The Cure Parkinson’s Trust.

Our family would very much like to encourage everyone who knew our father, John (or Sean), to write messages and send any pictures to [email protected]. All the messages, photos and candles sent will be collated into one beautiful hardback book for us all to cherish.

Charity Donation In Memory of John Harkins

Donate to Cure Parkinson’s

You can choose to make your donation amount private, if you wish.

Cure Parkinson’s Donations

Pat & Derek Butler

With much love from Pat & Derek on the very sad loss of a very old and dear friend

£100.00 + £25.00 Gift Aid

Olly, Emma and the girls

Sending lots of love to all the Harkins family. Rest in peace Sean.

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Anonymous

A very worthwhile charity.May a much needed cure to parkinsons disease be found.

£30.00 + £7.50 Gift Aid

John & Anne Lewis

I loving memory of a very good friend

£100.00 + £25.00 Gift Aid

Anonymous

£100.00 + £25.00 Gift Aid

Silverstripe Team

Dear Katie, we’re thinking of you and all your family on Thursday. Sending you all our love, best wishes and condolences. From your stories your father sounded a wonderful man. The Silverstripe Team

Anonymous

£25.00

Anonymous

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Katie, James, Olivia, Imogen and Ottiie

Dear Dad, thank you for all the wonderful memories, happy and sad! We will miss you more than words can ever say. We love you! Rest in peace. All our love, Katie, James, Olivia, Imogen and Ottiie xxx

£100.00 + £25.00 Gift Aid

Anonymous

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Anonymous

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Anonymous

£25.00 + £6.25 Gift Aid

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Cure Parkinson’s

£680.00 + Gift Aid of £163.75

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A Few Kind Words...

“I would like to say a big thank you for everything. I had nothing to worry about, it all went so smoothly from the day of his death to the end of the funeral and in the circumstances could not have been better. Thank you so much.

I don’t have a great deal of experience in these matters, but compared to the other funeral directors I had to deal with, Greenwoods are the tops and you personally were a pleasure to deal with, you hit absolutely the right note.”

Ann Bishop

“You make an extremely difficult time easier. Dad’s service was very fitting and I was so pleased to see him dressed in his uniform and hold his had one last time, Jess you did a lovely job. Thank you so so much.”

Clare

“Dear John,

Thank you for the wonderful service, support and help you offered me and the way you looked after my partner Bob, after he passed away.

From the professionalism and courtesy your team showed on that most traumatic moment – taking Bob from our house – to your kindness, and surefooted advice, the recommendation of the Celebrant, and then your kindness in coming to the cremation as well.

It’s been the hardest month or so of my life and yet I was so pleased with how the service went, the wonderful order of service you arranged and helped me with and of course the music as well. Throughout it all you treated me with respect, dignity and gave me such helpful advice. I’m not sure I would have managed well without that. Even more, I can now look back and reflect that the day went well and represented my partner and our love so well.

I think it’s important to thank people when they have done such a great job.”

Douglas

“Lynn, Bruce and I thank you so much for the wonderful understanding and help you have given us over the past days.It has been a difficult time but made so much easier by your guidance. With your kindness, we feel we managed to say our goodbyes to ‘Roger’, ‘Dad’ and ‘Grandy’ – showing our love and thanks to him for looking after us so perfectly over the years.”

Pat Clark

Dear Mr Alan Greenwood, I cannot thank you and your team in Bookham enough, for the excellent service they provided in every respect in the Cremation of my wife.

Your resident Funeral Consultant Mary fully explained all we needed to understand and advised the options available to us.

Her in depth knowledge of all the service providers including, Order of Service, authors and print selection, Celebrant, Hall and refreshments.

So many things which without her I would have been lost.

In the past few days I have received so very many complements and praise for the service you gave.

Do please allow other potential clients to share our experience.

Yours sincerely

Terry Eves-Thorpe

Sheila Eves-Thorpe

“How can we say thank you for all you did to make Robert (Bob’s) funeral so lovely? We felt you worked so hard ,with your company and the Church to make everything so nice. So once again thank you.”

Wendy Dennis & Brenda

“Just a note to say a huge thank you to yourself and the wonderful team at Send Greenwoods, they took care of us all yesterday at Les Ingram’s funeral. I’ve really valued your help and support over the last few weeks and the wonderful men yesterday went beyond their ‘call of duty’. They were certainly there at our great time of need. Please pass on my thanks to everyone. I also enclose four more donations. Many thanks again.”

Judith Hookins

“Thank you for all your kind attention during the funeral of my husband John on the 24th May. The arrangements were so efficiently and sympathetically handled that it lifted a huge burden from my shoulders. I enclose a cheque in favour of the Alzheimer’s Society in memory of my beloved John.”

Catherine Waterman

“We would like to thank you for a friendly and professional service and especially Adam who made a good job of the service, and a big thanks to Jane who was a great help and showed much kindness. We would recommend your company.”

Chris & Mike Whalen

Dear Cindy,

I just wanted to say thank you for yesterday and please thank all the gentlemen who helped us. Everything ran very smoothly and they were excellent.

I was also very happy with the service booklet and photographs.

Lyla

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