Our family has created this memorial to celebrate the life of our much loved matriarch - Margaret Joan Wood.
Collecting your stories and memories here will offer us great comfort. Please add your photos, videos and memories to the page.
Click on the yellow heart below to let us know you were here.... see moreOur family has created this memorial to celebrate the life of our much loved matriarch - Margaret Joan Wood.
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OBITUARY
Margaret Joan Wood
Our Dear & Much Loved Matriarch - Mum, Nana, Great Nana, Great Great Nana - aged 96 years, passed away peacefully on March 7 2022.
Mum to Lesley Jane and Susan Murgatroyd (David). Nana to Patrick (Tutik), Rachel, Paul (Avril), Clare (Pete), Thomas (Hannah). Great Nana to Amy (Josh), Cassandra, Zoe, Tara, Alex, James, Sophia, Lily, George, Edie. Great Great Nana to Oliver.
A private cremation... see more
Margaret Joan Wood
Our Dear & Much Loved Matriarch - Mum, Nana, Great Nana, Great Great Nana - aged 96 years, passed away peacefully on March 7 2022.
Mum to Lesley Jane and Susan Murgatroyd (David). Nana to Patrick (Tutik), Rachel, Paul (Avril), Clare (Pete), Thomas (Hannah). Great Nana to Amy (Josh), Cassandra, Zoe, Tara, Alex, James, Sophia, Lily, George, Edie. Great Great Nana to Oliver.
A private cremation will be followed by a service of thanksgiving for Margaret's life at Baildon Methodist Church on Tuesday March 29th at 2:45 p.m. We ask friends to please meet at the Church. A reception will follow at Wesleys Cafe.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to The Methodist Flower Fund, a collection box will available at the service. You can also contact Desmond Jackson (Funeral Director: Tel 01274 582640 or Pat Bentley: email bentley0101@tiscali.co.uk)
I am so thankful to have been blessed with my Nana and I miss her light, friendship and her wisdom.
Throughout my life when things were not going well for me she was always my strongest supporter, she encouraged me to always try to do my best to make... moreI am so thankful to have been blessed with my Nana and I miss her light, friendship and her wisdom.
Throughout my life when things were not going well for me she was always my strongest supporter, she encouraged me to always try to do my best to make the most of the difficult situations I found myself in.
I believe she had a very accurate moral compass, her internal values and objectives were constantly guided by her unwavering love of her family, all of us in equal measure, cherished and supported.
I would like to share a memory from the 1980's, when I was a young lad doing my apprenticeship at Pool Paper Mills and Nana was working at Farnley Gardens with Bob cultivating Geraniums in the greenhouses there. Very often, during my lunch break, I would ride my motorbike from Pool to Farnley to meet Nana and share our lunchtime together. Such happy memories eating our sandwiches in the greenhouses together with the scent of Geraniums filling the warm humid atmosphere.
Missing you Nana, with my love, Patrick x x x less
We will miss her dearly & keep her close to our hearts.
It's been my greatest sadness in life to live so far away from my extended family, as I've missed out on spending time with loved ones, like my Great Nana - the... moreMy Nana Up The Hill/Great Nana,
We will miss her dearly & keep her close to our hearts.
It's been my greatest sadness in life to live so far away from my extended family, as I've missed out on spending time with loved ones, like my Great Nana - the last of my Great Grandparents.
Two of the last video chats we had were on her birthday in November 2020, when Josh and I told her that we were expecting her first Great Great Grandchild, and in June 2021 shortly after Oliver was born, when my dad was visiting with his mum and Nana (Great Nana) - they toasted Oliver's arrival.
I will always feel a sense of loss because she never got to meet Josh in person, and she had yet to meet Oliver.
I adored my Great Nana's baking, especially her Victoria sponge, and I can clearly remember spending warm moments in her magical garden as she showed me different plants and we stood in awe of various flowers. Maybe my sweet tooth and love of plants are things I inherited from her. I affectionately called her Nana Up The Hill, and she gave the best, most loving and heartwarming hugs.
My earliest scent memory is of patchouli, a perfectly earthy, balanced, fragrant and warm scent, which my Nana loved. I had her drop some on my puffalump when I visited so it would smell like her when I went home.
A fond memory I have from when I was a teenager, and she was still able - I had asked her to sit beside the bath, which she'd run for me, and at the end she embraced me all snuggled in my towel and sang: 'Rub a dub dub three men in a tub'...and managed to do the fake drop between her legs when she got to.. 'and turn em out knaves all three.' We had a good laugh about that, and it's a song I sing to Oliver - drop action and all, after he's had a bath. I think of my Nana each time. less