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The late Charles Thomas West was born on the 18th June 1933, Southwark, London to the parents of the late William Robert West and Florence West, during the time when the world leaders gathered in London to tackle the prolonged effects of the first world war. Mr Thomas Charles West grew up in a large family of 13 siblings before the Second World War forced them out of London where the family members were split and Thomas Charles West was placed with a different family.
After the war, he came back to London and started making a living at the age of 13. Whilst working and living in South London, he met and married his first wife, Jeanette. They lived in a lovely relationship without children until sadly his wife Jeanette passed away.
Mr Thomas Charles West got his second luck at a later year of his life and married his current second wife Mrs Grace West and was wedded in the Summer of 1999. As the second married was during his later age, this meant that they were unable to have children of their own, however, Grace had her own children with her. Mr Thomas Charles West and Grace West as husband and wife enjoyed 22 years of happy marriage. Mr Thomas Charles West embraced his new family wholeheartedly as his own, and the family found love and security in him as the best dad and a grandfather in the world. He led and managed the family in a gracious and compassionate way, which earned him to be known in the family with a respectable title of Grand Dad.
Grand Dad left behind 3 stepchildren and 5 grandchildren and many nephews and nieces.
Poem for Tom
Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort Without the ghost of a shadow in it Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was There is absolute unbroken continuity What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind Because I am out of sight?
1 am waiting for you for an interval Somewhere very near
Just around the corner All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
We invite you to join us to celebrate the life of Thomas Charles West
Funeral
Date: 18/01/2022Additional Info:
In line with current CV19 guidelines mourners are requested to wear face masks and observe safe distancing policies. The church is regularly sanitised.
The cortege, Toms funeral and the committal ceremony will be recorded in HD on 18th January. The recording can be accessed by clicking the invitation that will appear on this memorial site. Please allow a few hours for the recording to be uploaded to the site
If for any reason the recording is missed or interrupted, have no fear the funeral recording can be accessed from the same invitation and will be available for at least 1 month.
Additional Info:
Please note that the funeral will be streamed live from Our Lady of Visitation Church which can accessed via the Church Website:
Roman Catholic Parish of Greenford – Welcome to Our Lady of the Visitation (rcdow.org.uk)
Then search under either Facebook or YouTube
Rest in eternal peace grandad.
I promise to live by your wisdom words as you always teach us papa. Thank you so much for all you did for us. Where and how we would have been without you grandpapa
I can’t stop shedding tears
But I thank the almighty who is in control of all we plan. May He continuously bless your soul to rest in eternal peace. AMEN
We will always miss you big grandad.