Mary Juelsdorf

Dear Maureen, Celia and Linda. I have just come across Mary's obituary. I have your dads, Carlo Maulini's - attended funeral in 2009, Bill Chapman's - funeral attended in 2016, and my Dad Jack's 2005, together in a saved document I created. I wish I had known of Hans, and Mary's - which was not that long ago. I would have wanted to be there with you. Your parents and each of you played a large part in mine and Phil's early lives, (I have the photos to prove that), and Linda, I remember us laying in a haystack playing somewhere in our early teenage years, a distant memory, I liked you even though you were a couple of years older than me. I loved Hans and Mary. I fondly now remember Hans chasing me and my mates off from playing football on the grass outside # 27. We were the little '****' (his phrase), who kept kicking the ball landing in your front garden. Hans eventually planted shrubs on the grass I believe, to curtail our antics. Mum and Dad were great friends of your parents and all were members of the Conservative Party, which I was briefly a member of Young Conservative before having to leave on joining Hampshire Constabulary. Since my retirement I have got involved again. I look back on those years and our associations with great fondness and happiness. Our two families were very good friends (Hans and our football antics aside), which is why I was saddened to have missed both Hans and Marys funerals. We grow up we move on and away and lose touch sadly. My mum died in 1998, and dad in 2005. Please know how very fond I and my parents were of your family and for the long association we had, particularly mum Carol and dad Jack had with Hans & Mary. Both dad & Hans served in WW2 for our future freedoms, they were great people. Our mums were the stable influences in our lives, though Phil and I think our mum was a bit crazy!! Well I hope u get my reflections/recollec
tion on some of our lives as next door neighbours. Trevor : trevtherev440@gmail.
com