Raymond Joseph Heaps

thank you once again my dear friendsi have not been able to face comeing on for some time ...then i
was told in march i had a breast cancer only small caught in time i have now had it removed and
still sore but getting there godbless all who light candles for raymond xx



Raymond Joseph Heaps ..30 July 2004... age68 .... bricklayer buider..born in Batley but lived in
Dewsbury he leaves wife pauline 2 daughters Susan and Andrea 2 grandsons Nathan and Luke 2
grandaughters Naomi and Nikita also 3 sisters and 1 brother ...... lost his fight for life
peacefully at home from cancer .. with his loving family around him ..........Raymond loved and
lived for his children.

At 18 went off to do his national service in the RAF, after he served his 2 years we married then
along came our first daughter Susan 2 years later came Andrea.

He was a good worker and would go anywhere that there was work he travelled to Germany and worked
there a long time and made lots of friends, one time when in Germany they had no money so had to
sleep in tents .. He also did lots of work in Ireland fitting bank vaults and night safes .. As he
got older he had to retire due to arthritus in his hands and legs and had to have new joints in
his hands ... but then took to computer he taught him self lots and could be seen going every day
Monday to Saturday down to Dewsbury library.... you could tell the time by him as he walked down
Halifax Road at the same time every day 6 days a week (an old soldier) .. his work mates always
said they did not need a watch as they could tell the time by him ...haha.

Raymond loved his irish music he would sit at home doing his crossword and drink his can of beer and
listen to his rebel songs. he loved his granchildren to come.......

When one of his grandaughter became ill and was paralyses he went full out for her and spent endless
hours at the hospital with her .. he then wrote a letter to the Pope John paul and asked him to pray
for her .. and got a reply back . He then started to fund raise for the \\\"FORGET ME NOT TRUST
FUND\\\" and was the first person to be awarded a trophy for his continued support which he did
right up till his death (his grandaughter is now fit and healthy now thanks to good care and lots of
prayers )

Raymond was a home bird but his niece did ask him one thing that he would attend her wedding (in
australia )and he did it for her and loved it .. but could not get him to go back again as he said
he had been once .. but I could go ..hahaha on my own .. (A TRIBUTE OF LOVE )LOVED BY MANY NEAR AND
FAR (MAGIC)

UnTILL WE MEET AGAIN

I WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME LIVE IT ALL AGAIN JUST REMEMBERING WHEN YOU WAS HERE TO SHARE THIS
LIFE ..I DONT KNOW WHY IT HAD TO END I TRIED TO HOLD ON TO YOU .. BUT YOU LET GO OF MY HAND THERE
MUST HAVE BEEN A REASON,, MAYBE ONE DAY YOU WILL EXPLAIN... WHEN GOD DECIDES ITS TIME FOR US .. TO
BE TOGEATHER AGAIN XXX GOD BLESS YOU

than you all my g t s friends
thank you all for the candles you light for my husband also all the words of comfort to me and my
family it means so much to us all .... thank you to for all pictures thank you to andy where
would we be without him. xx .also marion x mandy x julie xgemma x and debbie x
and lots more to many to name ... but i thank you from my heart ... godbless you all xx