On the 3rd. Anniversary.

Remembering You. RIP.

I would like to send my sincere condolences to Sheila's family. I met Sheila during the late 1980s during our summers at Reading University. We later met during the mid-1990s but lost contact after that. When I think of Sheila now, I see her smiling and hear her laughing; she had a way of bringing joy into every room she entered and into the lives of those she met. I'm grateful to have had the chance to spend time with her.

In Memory of the 2nd. year anniversary : You may not be here - but you are living our mind & heart.

With sadness Ifty

It was over 50 years ago , since I last saw Sheila . I lost her contact - but I have never forgotten her .  For years , I have been searching for her in the internet .  On 26 September,2021, I do not know why , I was looking for her on the Google search & to my surprise and horror discovered the dreadful  unexpected news. It was devastating - I did not want to believe it . It shook me so much that it took me all this time to recover and gather my thoughts.  After One year , Six months & 14 days of her passing away , I am now joining the rest to mourn and remember Sheila.

I am Ifty Ahmad , a long lost friend of Sheila. In 1969 , we met in London through a...

As many times as Sheila visited us in Scotland, my memory of her is best summed up in the fact that she introduced me to the 12 step programme, which became a big part of my life and SAVED my life of which I am very grateful to Sheila for...........Today, the programme is still part of my being and my soul's journey..............and happy memories of her as part of my life.  I wrote this poem for Sheila............

                             GO LIGHTLY

GO LIGHTLY, AMIDST THIS LIFE, THE BEAUTY AND THE PAIN,

SUCH WONDER I SAW IN YOUR EYES, BEYOND THIS WORLD  OF SORROW AND STRAIN.

GO LIGHTLY, AMIDST THIS LIFE, SHARING AND CARING AS WE DID.

GO LIGHTLY, WHAT JOY YOU BROUGHT TO ME REFLECTED IN YOUR EYES.

GO LIGHTLY WAS YOUR MESSAGE,

GO LIGHTLY AMIDST THIS LIFE

TAKE ME WITH YOU, WHEREVER YOU GO.........

LOOK DEEPLY, BE PEACE.

I WAITED FOR YOU,

FOR I AM,

GO LIGHTLY AND BEYOND

Blessings to you all.

Just a few memorys from me. I was a swiss student in the period january to June 1980 in the Bornemouth international School. Sheila was one of my teachers. Since the first day, we had a good contact and our group maintained a fantastic contact to Sheila. We organised parties and just had good times - sheila was always in the middle. I knew Sheila as a wonderful person - she was "crazy" in a very positiv way.

After June 80, we kept contact, a few times by telefphone, once with a visit in bournemouth and every year, I sent Sheila a x-mas card an wiss chocolate for x-mas.

I keep her in mind with a lot of respect to a person, which was happy depite the life not always was easy.

For Christine: Thanks so much that your informed me - and yes: I was the one with the red hear at this time!!!

Urs

Peter knew Sheila when he was teaching at Shino la Tewa School north of  Mombasa and Sheila was teaching south of Mombasa. Friday night was when we all met for the big night at the Rowing Club. Not much rowing was done but a lot of Tusker was drunk and stories shared. This was usually followed up on Saturday morning  by having coffee ( or more tusker ) on the terrace of the Castle Hotel and awaiting  Sheila's arrival . I can still see her now , striding up the Kilindini Road with ribbons in her hair. We made some safaris to Tsavo where we were well looked after by Sheila's game ranger friend Aggrey. We  always kept in touch with her when she came back to Salisbury when she would delight us with stories about the Swahili class she was teaching and show us the "safari shower " which she had rigged up in her back garden.

I'm Sheila's youngest sister, Christine. She was much older than me and like a second mother and I have many happy memories of our adventures together.

Sheila and I went skiing in Scotland one Easter where we had gone to visit a Kenyan friend. We borrowed skis from his school and went up the mountain. I was only able to slide backwards downhill and was just getting up from another fall, when Sheila called my name. I looked up and saw a wave of dark fog moving rapidly downhill towards us. John MacDonald, her friend, had expressly warned us about such a possibility, and had told us to get off the mountain immediately. Lucky he had, because by the time it took to pick up our skis, and get to the car, which was mercifully on the road nearby, the dense fog was upon us, but we were able to get away. It frightened me so much that I have never been skiing since. So she saved my life!

 

Another time she saved me was another Easter when I persuaded her to hitchhike to Greece for our 2 week...

Sheila and I were friends for 60 years. We were both students at Bedford College at London University in 1960 having come from disadvantaged backgrounds we both had achieved State Scholarships which was a very prestigious award. We both worked very hard to achieve our degrees and spent our graduation day together with our families. We were very privileged to receive our degrees from the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen mother.

We had met walking back from Mass one day to our accommodation and shared our deep Catholic faith the whole...

I knew Sheila for 50 years, she was a dear, true friend of mine. I shared a house with her for 2 years in Matuga in Kwale District, Kenya, where I taught. I was a newly qualified teacher and the school was a small girls boarding school in the rural area so I was pretty lonely and scared. Then came Sheila and immediately we took to each other like a house on fire.

We would often make trips to Kwale (town a few miles away from us) to visit the Irish Catholic priests...

I hope I can make contact and tell you that I am sorry that you have lost a sister,  Sheila.  She was a wonderful person and I was lucky to have her as a friend for many years.

I met Sheila in 1970 when she came to Kenya.  I was teaching at a school in Mombasa and Sheila...

We have heard that you have lost your sister Sheila and we would like to extend our sympathy to you at this difficult time and to share a couple of happy memories.

Having known Sheila for almost fifty years we were aware that her life was becoming increasingly difficult but we will...

Thank you for sending me your memories of Sheila and the beautiful photos.  She was special and how wonderful to have her as a sister and aunt.

I met Sheila through our dogs.  Some years ago my last dog Phoebe fell in love with Buster when we...

I'm Christine's daughter, who is Sheila's youngest sister.  We've always lived with at least an ocean between us and I had always wanted to make a trip to see her and get to know her better as an adult.  Unfortunately in putting it off, I missed that chance.  I am so grateful for my childhood memories of her.

During the 1980's she lived in Sulmona, a little town in a mountainous region in Italy.  She taught English at...