Michael Norman Howe
Michael Howe Interment Ceremony
On Wednesday August 10, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in St. Mark’s Church (Byron St., Niagara-on-the-Lake) Memorial Garden, Marsha was joined by a number of family and friends for Michael’s Interment ceremony.
As it was not possible for everyone to attend in person Marsha hopes that this video brings you comfort and memories as you consider the impact that Michael’s life had on each one of us.
Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W. H. Auden