Anna Grazyna Vickland - Boddy

My beloved wife Anna passed away at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga, at 1am on Tue 27 Dec 2011, aged 60. I was with her right to her last breath. Anna was my soul mate and my best friend. As well, Anna was a wonderful mother to Olga and Marta. We will each miss her terribly. Anna arrived from Poland in 1984 and became an Australian citiz...more

She is gone. You can shed tears that she is gone. Or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back. Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her. Or you can be full of the love that you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live ye...more

A message for my Mum on my birthday Mum, Today for the first time I celebrate my birthday without you. I reflect on the great times we had together on my birthdays in the past; you always made sure that I had a special day. You are forever in my thoughts. I love you. I miss you. Thank you for giving me this precious gift, the gift of life. ...more

🌷 Olga Dekell gave a flower Mum, six months has passed, I still miss you so much. Thinking of you, wishing you were here to share my life with me. Your forever in my heart. Olga.

🌷 Anthony Boddy gave a flower Anna gave me love and hope and a reason for living. A purpose in life. I thought she'd be with me forever but it wasn't to be. In the lonely hours of the night I dream about her still: whole and well and happy.

🌷 Anthony Boddy gave a flower It's six months today since Anna passed. We all miss her very much.

Order of Service - Friday 6 January 2012; Entry Music: “Because You Loved Me”; Welcome & Introduction; Eulogy by Anthony Boddy; Tribute by Victor Vickland; Readings by Olga Dekell and Marta Vickland; Floral Farewell - Presentation of roses by Anna’s children Olga and Marta and grandchildren Aris, Athan, Amber, Adam and Austin; Music: “...more

Loving mother of Olga and Marta. Beloved wife of Anthony Think of me as one at rest. For me you should not weep. I have no pain, no troubled thoughts - for I am just asleep. The living thinking me that was is now forever still. And life goes on without me, as time forever will. If your heart is heavy now because I've gone away, Dwell not lon...more

The interment of Anna's cremated remains took place on her Name Day: 26 July 2012.  Present in her honour were Adam, Amber, Anthony, Aris, Athan, Austin, Cameron, Darren, Geoff, Marta & Olga. The afternoon ceremony was  conducted in winter sunshine.  Olga and Marta brought tulips and roses and Anna's grandchildren made decorations.  The music was ...more

🌷 Olga Dekell gave a flower Mum, a special flower for you on your Name Day. You were such a courageous, amazing and adventurous woman. I miss you, I miss laughing with you. Olenka.

🕯 Olga Dekell lit a candle

🌷 Anthony Boddy gave a flower A year has passed and it seems like a dream has ended. I miss Anna and I miss the life she gave me. Nothing can replace the feeling of completeness that came from being with my soul mate, now lost. Life for me goes on. I know it will never be the same. I will always honour Anna's place in it.

🌷 Olga Dekell gave a flower

🌷 Anthony Boddy gave a flower Today, on the date of our twentieth wedding anniversary, I give thanks for the best time of my life: the years I spent with my dear wife Anna. She was the other half that made me whole. I will never be the same again. She loved life, family and friends and she did not deserve to die so young. She made so many people h...more