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Monica Tardiani
10-20-2011
05:29 PM ET (US)
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Monica Tardiani
10-20-2011
05:29 PM ET (US)
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Brian Sullivan
10-15-2011
08:24 AM ET (US)
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Thanks Poppy. The photos are great. I will put some of these into the next JAN eNews
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Poppy  10-15-2011
08:16 AM ET (US)
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See http://josephiteassociatenetworkqld.blogspot.com for photos from the 2011 Mary MacKillop Lecture.
I am hoping to put a transcript of the lecture up as soon as I can get a digital copy.
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Poppy 10-06-2011
12:25 AM ET (US)
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Brian..please use
PoppyMasselos@gmail.com
Thanks
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Poppy 10-03-2011
05:40 PM ET (US)
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Thank you Brian...a beautiful tribute to an amazing person...We will always hold Faye close to our hearts.....hope that you are doing OK....see you next week!
With a Josephite heart always!
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Brian Sullivan
10-03-2011
06:55 AM ET (US)
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Faye’s Eulogy
Faye Maria Walsh was born on 17th March 1948 at Murwillumbah District Hospital to Peter (deceased) and Marie Walsh. Faye grew up at Eviron in the Tweed Valley. She attended Condong Primary School for 2 years, went to Mt St Patrick’s Primary and Intermediate school then on to Murwillumbah High School. She left in Year 11 to do Nursing
In October 1964 she commenced work as a Nurse Aid at Murwillumbah District Hospital and on her 17th birthday started training as a Hospital Nurse, living in as a student at Murwillumbah District Hospital. On 17th March 1969 she completed 4 years General Nursing Training. Faye went on to do Midwifery training at Mater Hospital in 1969/1970
She met John Lipscomb at age 19 or 20 and they were married on 13th June 1970. John at that stage was working for AGC and in 1970 they moved to Dalby where Faye nursed at Dalby General Hospital. John’s father was a doctor and John decided that he wanted to become a doctor also
They moved to Brisbane for John to go to University, living at Camp Hill. Faye went back to the Mater Hospital to continue her nursing. Faye, John and Faye’s sister Pam went to Thredbo for a snow trip, had a breakdown at Thredbo and another breakdown on the way home
Faye and John separated in 1980 and the Dissolution of Marriage came through on 14 Feb 1982. Faye went back to her maiden name in July 1982
Faye went to the United Kingdom to work as an Agency Nurse in London at Westminster Children’s Hospital and Harley Street Clinic between 1981 and 1982. It was there that she met a couple of friends, one of whom was Peter Sims who Faye has been in touch with for many years
At Christmas she went to Austria where she met Lea & Bart Jippes and Appie & Stien Strample. In Easter 1982 she met Janet Phillips-Gray (now Janet Procida) who has been a long term friend for nearly 30 years
She returned to Australia in June 1982 and went nursing in Victoria for a while, then met Mary & Helen Heathwood in Bundaberg. In 1983 she went nursing in Cape York, working in Thursday Island, Bamaga and Edward River Mission. She returned to Murwillumbah in 1985 and worked in Community Health
In 1987, Faye and Roslyn went overseas to do a tour of Europe and meet up with Peter Sims and Lea & Bart. Faye tells the story of a policeman in Ireland and they asked where they could go to do some shopping. The policeman said “Well, I wouldn’t be starting from here, Lass”
At one stage, Kevin asked Faye to come in and scratch Pigs and have a photo taken. She was in a $300 dress at the time. However, she did it
I came across Beginning Experience around July/August 1986 where I did Support Group, which was followed by Continued Beginnngs. I met Faye at a Beginning Experience weekend in August 1987 at a Conference Centre at Coorparoo, which was previously known as the Xavier Home for Children with Disabilities
At that stage I was in a relationship with another nurse who had nursed my Uncle at Holy Spirit Home, Carseldine and we lived less than one kilometre from each other. When I saw Faye, I thought “She’s too flashy for me”. Well Faye thought differently. She and a couple of girlfriends decided that they would “plot to get me”
Faye was in Lismore Team and I was in Brisbane Team. We would regularly meet for Weekends, Follow-up Days, Outings and Team Enrichment Days. At one stage we went over to St Helena Island where we dressed up in prison garb. Faye and her two friends were there and I was chatting with them
We went to a Team Enrichment Weekend at James Byrne Centre, just north of Toowoomba. It was wet and rainy and the cloud was down on the mountains. On Saturday afternoon we were in a group and Faye was there. We were talking about Fears. I let on that I had a fear of dying and a fear of dying alone. Faye piped up and said “Do you mind if I phone you to see if you are still alive”. Three days later she did
So, after having a friend less than one kilometre from me, I was travelling 140 kilometres to Murwillumbah to visit Faye. We had our first date on 5th August 1988. Faye would often come up to my place and I would go down there. We visited Expo 1988 a couple of times
In early 1989, Faye decided to come up Brisbane to again work at the Mater Hospital. She had a friend who lived near Chillingham and whose son lived in Paddington. Faye moved in with him, completed Year 12 and undertook a Bachelor of Social Science Degree from 1990 to 1992
We became engaged in late 1989 and were to marry in December 1990. However, Roslyn said that her father would probably not last that long, so we were married on 16th September 1990. Faye’s father passed away about 7 weeks later, Melbourne Cup Day
We had good times and bad times throughout our lives, but mostly they were good times. We lived at Ferny Hills from 1990 to 1997 and went to Mass at the Grovely/ Samford Parish. There we met our very close friends Gus & Maureen DeGroot, and were in a Family Group for some years. Faye was coordinator of Care and Concern at Grovely and I was on the Parish Council
In September 1997 we moved to Aspley. Initially we went to Our Lady & St Dympna’s but after a couple of years moved to All Saints Parish. Faye and I read for a number of years, I was a Eucharistic Minister and we were both on the Welcoming Committee. Faye was also in the All Saints Choir for a number of years and did the flowers (natives which Mary MacKillop loved) each August
Shortly after moving to Aspley we joined Marriage Encounter, but left that after a few years. Faye was a Josephite Associate and at an Expo at Nundah in 2003 she saw a brochure to do with Teams of Our Lady. We joined Teams in October 2003, were piloted by Trish & Bob Taylor and have been in Teams ever since. We became Sector Couple at the end of 2009
In 2005 we formed the Josephite Associate Network Qld which became Incorporated in April 2006. Faye was the Inaugural President of JAN Qld Inc and stayed in that position for 3 years
On Mary MacKillop’s feast day in 2007, Faye and Margaret Robertson signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Josephite Associate Network Qld Inc
We have had a number of overseas trips. In 1996 we went on a Trafalgar Tour of Europe, met up with friends in Holland, toured Ireland, went to the USA to meet friends on the East and West Coast and to Disneyland
Faye and I went to a Rheumatology Conference in Perth in 1999 and decided to go to the USA in 2000 where there was a major Conference in Philadelphia. We again visited friends on the East and West coast and travelled around the North-East of the USA before the Conference in Philadelphia
We visited Anne & her then partner Daniel in London, went to Ireland and Holland to visit family and friends Faye met in Austria. We went back to the USA to meet up with Janet & Bob then to Los Angeles and back to Australia
In 2003 we went to New Zealand with Faye’s sister Robyn for a Clan McLeod Reunion. It was a great gathering and after the Reunion we hired a car and did about 6 day’s travelling throughout the South Island of New Zealand
In 2004 we went to Ireland for the marriage of one of my second cousin’s daughter. Liam was working at Longtown, about an hour north of Bristol, doing Outdoor Education. We again visited Lea & Bart in Holland and spent a few days in Dubai
We went back to Vietnam in 2005 where I had served in 1967. We had a great trip visiting Saigon, Vung-Tau, Nui Dat, Mekong Delta, Da Nang, Hue & Hanoi
In 2008 we went to Ottawa for another Clan McLeod Reunion. We did a tour of the Rocky Mountains, went to Ottawa for the Clan McLeod Reunion, then to Calgary for the Calgary Stampede then off to Toronto. We visited Niagara Falls and did a sunset cruise around the Thousand Islands
We went to New York to visit another friend that Janet & Bob knew and to Richmond Virginia and Washington DC. We went back to Vancouver to see a former niece of mine and to Hong Kong for a couple of days, then back via Singapore to Brisbane
We have visited New Zealand on a number of occasions. Faye was very much into Yoga and a Yoga teacher who originally came from New Zealand but has been here for a number of years took us back to Wanaka in 2006 and 2010 for a Yoga Retreat and Adventure Holiday
We had a great time doing different walks, including Siberia Valley, Mt Aspiring National Park, Rob Roy Glacier and jet boat rides
From 1992 to 1998 we went each February to Pottsville Beach South Caravan Park where Faye looked after Peter and Brittany, being there to give Faye’s sister Roslyn a hand caring for her children. We stayed in one of my cousin’s caravans. We had a great time with lots of fun, laughter and a few quiet wines
For a number of years, when Roslyn & Kevin took their children to Pottsville during the school holidays, Faye and I went down to the farm to stay for a couple of weeks. On one occasion, Faye was cleaning out the chook and duck pens, bringing in new straw and hay.
Faye had been hosing and left the dairy doors open to dry out the water when the cows came in to eat the straw and hay. As Faye said, “They were like a Bull in a China shop” and crapped everywhere
Faye had a wonderful relationship with Liam and Anne and their families and was a devoted Nan to our grandchildren. And likewise she embraced the extended Sullivan family, and always showed interest in all the generations. As a hostess she was often at the centre of many of our happy family gatherings and was much loved by all
Faye retired on 15th July 2005. In her 41 years of Nursing she had 12 years of General Adult and Hospital Nursing, 15 years of Paediatric Nursing and 14 years of Community Health Nursing
In March this year about 5 day’s before Faye’s 63rd Birthday and fitting in with Kevin Twohill’s Birthday we had a gathering of the Walsh, McLeod, Twohill and Graham families at Roslyn & Kevin’s place at Eviron. There were over 100 people present. A niece came from Melbourne and cousins came from Sydney, Gosford and Bundaberg
In May this year we had an afternoon tea at MacKwood Life which Faye attended. There were about 17 people present. Fr John Scarrott gave a blessing to Faye and another JAN Member, Lenore Bateman
In the past couple of months, Faye’s condition has deteriorated rapidly. Faye had been having difficulty getting up the stairs from the family room so on 4th August Chermside Home Assist came to put in a ramp for Faye to use. Initially she was using the “Walkie Wheeler” then I was assisting putting her on the seat and occasionally the wheelchair
Faye was having breathing difficulties last Tuesday and I took her to the Emergency Department at The Prince Charles Hospital. A doctor who was in the Sleep Unit came down late in the evening and said that he doubted that Faye would last the night. The doctor gave Faye some morphine to calm her and take her to a different ward. I was with Faye when she passed away about 12:45am last Wednesday
My darling Faye, I love you and I will always love you. You have been my rock and my support throughout our married life. You are now in the arms of God and singing with the angels. Until we meet again in Eternal Life, may God hold you in the palm of His Hand
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Brian Sullivan
09-30-2011
08:53 AM ET (US)
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Hi Poppy
We arrived back from Murwillumbah today and I am going back there tomorrow for a Footy-Tips lunch. I will post the Eulogy when I get back to Brisbane on Sunday. Brian
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Brendan and Linda Schostakowski
09-29-2011
03:38 AM ET (US)
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Thanks to everyone for their comments.
I thought it was a truly beautiful farewell for Faye and I was very touched and felt very blessed by the whole experience.
Linda Schostakowski
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Poppy 09-29-2011
01:44 AM ET (US)
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Brian..happy to post your EULOGY if you are up to it.....Poppy
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Poppy 09-29-2011
01:43 AM ET (US)
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Joan..thank you.....YES..it was a wonderful farewell.
John is kindly permitting us to post his homily which I think married Faye's life and Mary MacKillop's beautifully.
Brian..we will truly miss Faye and wish you well as you journey through life with an abundance of beautiful memories of Faye.
I particularly like what Kathryn wrote...her "greatest gift was the dignity with which she 'lived' her illness."
Please enjoy John's homily again. Poppy
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart” (1907)
These words by Mary MacKillop uttered only two years before her death sum up the spirit of all who are gathered here today to honour Faye. Faye lived her life in a spirit of gratitude to God for all she had been given. She was realistic about her condition. In mid-July when the JAN group met at MacKwood to celebrate Faye with Brian, although she openly admitted to one of us – “It’s a horrible illness, it takes everything from you” – she spent the two hours patiently asking after each of us and how we were going. She patiently spelt out all these questions on her communication device. Faye’s whole approach to life was through her heart. Because she lived in her heart she was always full of gratitude. And today we are gathered here in gratitude because she has passed through our lives.
Faye bears a striking similarity to Mary MacKillop. Both died of debilitating illnesses – Mary the results of a stroke suffered over seven years before her death and Faye the consequences of motor-neuron disease diagnosed only eighteen months ago. They are only four years different in their final age. Faye’s courage in facing the limited choices left to her is known to us all. And against great odds they both achieved great things. I met Faye in the late 1980’s when she was a member of Lismore ‘Beginning Experience’ and I was chaplain to Brisbane ‘Beginning Experience’. The whole philosophy of ‘Beginning Experience’ is daring to love again after a lost or broken relationship. And Faye dared. She was the inaugural president of JAN – the Josephite Associate Network. Her strong and loving personality, often mistaken as ‘softly, softly’ carried the day over the many initial stumbling blocks.
St Paul in writing his marvellous hymn to love could well have been referring to Faye. He refers to love: ‘bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things’. Faye was warm and affectionate with her love, but she was also thoroughly practical in putting her love into practice. I have been the beneficiary of this love for almost twenty five years. The loving support she has given my sister Margie and myself has been extraordinary and at the same time eminently practical. Paul goes on to say ‘Love suffers long and is kind’. Faye has suffered long and remained kind and concerned about everyone else to the end.
“There where you are, you will find God” (1871)
Faye found God and God’s love in every area of her life. She truly understood the meaning of the words spoken by John in today’s second reading. She believed implicitly the fact that she was a child of God and that she would not find recognition of this from some around her, but she still offered her love selflessly to those in need. Her presence enhanced any room she walked into. She was a gracious host, a wonderful cook and a true blue friend. Truly we know that she will be with Jesus in the heavenly mansion preparing the room for each of us – and what a room it will be and what a banquet.
For God’s faithful people life is changed not ended. Faye will see God as God really is. She will be re-membered with Jesus. As we gather to celebrate Eucharist we do so with Faye. She is still a part of the Communion of Saints but now we hope and trust, in heaven. She is still a part of each of us. Just as we celebrate the living presence of Jesus in this Eucharist we cement our relationship with him as a member of His Body through Baptism – we re-member Him. And just as we re-member Faye today we cement our relationship with her as a member of the Body of Christ. She is just as alive today as she ever was – only more so. She is living now the fullness of life in Jesus that she so desired in this life.
As Christians we do grieve, but not as those who have no hope as Paul tells the Thessalonians. We grieve our own inadequacy of only being able to see through a glass darkly. But one day like Faye, we shall be known even as we are known. She will leave a large gap in our lives, for Brian especially, for her mother Marie, for her sisters Pamela, Robyn and Rosalyn, and for all of us her extended family by adoption. But she will continue to walk with us and inspire us. Like Mary MacKillop she never saw a need without trying to do something about it. I sure that we will all still see that twinkle in her eye as she laughingly reassured us that it would all work out in the end – if we trusted in God’s provident love.
May we all commit ourselves to the sentiments of the Closing Hymn of today’s Liturgy.
“With a Josephite heart, we can build a better world together”
Faye, may you enjoy the company of the God you loved throughout your life and may you continue to look after each one of us in the spirit of your great mentor and guide – St Mary of the Cross, MacKillop.
Fr John Scarrott
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joan mason
09-28-2011
07:37 AM ET (US)
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Hi Poppy
Thank you so much for putting this together, it means a great deal to me. I loved being with all of you today as we said our farewell to a beautiful woman. John said it all, Faye was always from the heart.
Joan xx
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Annette Arnold
09-25-2011
05:28 AM ET (US)
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Thanks Poppy - the slide show is great - a great tribute to a beautiful woman who was so loving, giving and compassionate to all as well as great fun! Will miss her greatly. Annette
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Margaret
09-25-2011
02:58 AM ET (US)
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Thank you Poppy for expressing so well what is in our hearts. What a special lady and I am sure the other special lady in our lives, Mary Mackillop, has welcomed Faye home and will be close to Brian, Faye's family and all of us in our grief.
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Kathryn Downing
09-25-2011
01:58 AM ET (US)
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Lovely Poppy
Hi Mary
A special tribute to a wonderful woman of whom I say greatest gift was the dignity with which she 'lived' her illness.
See you Wednesday
With A JOSEPHITE HEART!!!! Love Kathryn
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Poppy 09-24-2011
07:31 PM ET (US)
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Can you all forward this link around to people who are friends of Faye's please?
http://www.slideshare.net/poppymasselos/faye-walsh
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