The funeral for Iseabail (or as Elsie Nelson used to say "oor Ish") was held on Monday March 5, 2018 in Edinburgh. Iain conducted it. It was held in Mortanhall Crematorium on a very cold day (5 days after a blizzard with snow still piled everwhere). Iain and Bruce were the main speakers. In other words, we conducted it ourselves therefore it was non-religious and non-Humanist in that respect.
The Order of Service is below. This is a screenshot of the 4 pages. (I produced it.) I also organized Ryan Corbett to play at the service. He is one of our Bearsden Young Fiddlers from a few years ago. It proved to good choice both because he played the selections beautifully and also because he is a quiet lad who suited the setting - solemn but not sad.
Both Iain and Bruce are comfortable lecturing and delivered their eulogies 'from the heart'. What a difference to funerals where the person conducting the service, for very understandable reasons, does not know the deceased.
There were about 100 people there with about 80 coming the to Braidhills Hotel for tea afterwards. That also was deemed a success. It proved an excellent choice of hotel (unknown to us) and we enjoyed meeting and greeting with Iseabail's friends and relations.
Iain set up a webpage on which there are photographs and written contributions:
Remebrances of Iseabail at www.imacleod.com/Ish
Finally somebody on Wikipedia was quick off the mark: Iseabail's date of death was there when I typed in ISEABAIL CAMPBELL MACLEOD on Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iseabail_Macleod
So even though the book is now closed, metaphorically speaking, she is still there on the web and, of course, in all the reference books and dictionaries which formed so much of her working life.
Footnote: Donations at the funeral to the Chest Heart and Stroke Association amounted to £771.17. We topped this up and also 3 other people have sent cheques separately. We also made a donation to the Stroke Unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to buy a piece of equipment. Having arrived in an ambulance she was a patient there for 10 days and, indeed, where she died peacefully. (For those of us who use, work for ... or used to work for... the National Health Service words cannot express our gratitude for its existence!)
There were about 100 people there with about 80 coming the to Braidhills Hotel for tea afterwards. That also was deemed a success. It proved an excellent choice of hotel (unknown to us) and we enjoyed meeting and greeting with Iseabail's friends and relations.
Iain set up a webpage on which there are photographs and written contributions:
Remebrances of Iseabail at www.imacleod.com/Ish
Finally somebody on Wikipedia was quick off the mark: Iseabail's date of death was there when I typed in ISEABAIL CAMPBELL MACLEOD on Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iseabail_Macleod
So even though the book is now closed, metaphorically speaking, she is still there on the web and, of course, in all the reference books and dictionaries which formed so much of her working life.
Footnote: Donations at the funeral to the Chest Heart and Stroke Association amounted to £771.17. We topped this up and also 3 other people have sent cheques separately. We also made a donation to the Stroke Unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to buy a piece of equipment. Having arrived in an ambulance she was a patient there for 10 days and, indeed, where she died peacefully. (For those of us who use, work for ... or used to work for... the National Health Service words cannot express our gratitude for its existence!)
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