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Andrew McMORRAN Obituary
McMORRAN Peacefully, in Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31st January, 2012, Andrew Age 34, soulmate and cherished husband and companion of Aisha, wonderful stepdad to Lara, beloved son of Russell and Ann and an inspirational big brother of Grace and Kenneth, incredibly missed by all family, friends and colleagues. Funeral Service took place on Monday 6th February 2012.
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Kenny
February 21, 2025
Under a sky, no one sees
Waiting, watching it happening
Don't hurry, give it time
Things are the way they have to be
Slow down, give it time
Still life, you know I'm listening
The moment that you want is coming if you give it time
When you wake up, when you wake up
You will find me
Under a sky, no one else sees
Your shape appears in front of me
The sky clears, the sun hits, I'm here
Waiting, it's happening
The moment that you want is coming if you give it time
Russell McMorran
May 24, 2024
Do you see O brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life... all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed..
love, dad xx.
[extracts from Walt Whitman]
Kenneth McMorran
August 29, 2023
Find love, build it on sand, build it on bricks, build it on land
Find love swinging in the wind, watching it some more, build it back again
Find love lying on the shore, drifting out to sea, lost forever more
Find love, strangest of thing but chaos inside, peace that it brings
Oh, oh, oh watch me slowly fall apart
You've gotta give up the things you love, to make it better
Holding on but only holding on is hurt
You've gotta give up the things you love, to make it better
Russell McMorran
January 28, 2023
May eternity hold you, in the hollow of her hand,
May a soft wind enfold you as you travel distant lands,
May the moon and stars delight you as the daylight dims,
Till the morning sun warms your face, till I see you again...
May you never be a stranger, may you never feel alone,
May you reunite with family and friends, may they walk you home,
May love embrace you in a dance that never ends,
May you rest in gentle arms, till I see you again.
It's poetic licence Andrew, but I still hope.
Another birthday son, and we're all thinking about you, and we miss you of course.
Love forever; Mum, Dad, Grace and Kenneth xxxx
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Russell McMorran
May 3, 2022
Miss you still Andy, think about you everyday. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
October 11, 2021
Where're you walked Andrew...I try to remember. I will always strive to remember, you should never be forgotten ❤.Dadxx
Russell McMorran
August 21, 2021
...The words have come from men and mouse,
but I cannot help thinking that I have heard the wrong people...
Oh, money is free but love costs more than our daily bread.
And the roof is hard to access.
So I'm trying to leave something behind.
Oh, wisdom is lost somewhere in the trees...
and the roof is hard to access.
And its time to leave something behind.
When my son is a man who knows what I mean,
I was just trying to leave something behind.
(John Rowe)[Paraphrased].
Mum and me brought you, Grace and Kenny into the world, and we were trying to leave something behind. In any case, our family will always be inseparable. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
June 30, 2021
Thinking about the Elysian Fields, about you amongst the beauty and serenity, and perhaps meeting you there someday Andy.
In any case, I think of you much of the time. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
April 5, 2021
... but your always around. You will always be around your family Andrew. God only knows how much mum and me miss that big smile and big hug! Enduring love, Dadxx.
January 29, 2021
Andrew, I wont leave you behind or move on. You are always in my heart. Wait for me. My love always, Grace.
Russell McMorran
January 29, 2021
I's your Birthday again! Sleep, sleep in peace and rest...and we're keeping the night watch Andy. I hope there will be another morning. From your family xxxx.
Kenny
January 15, 2021
I can't reach your hand
I can't liberate you
I know you're alive
But in my heart I've said goodbye
So tonight, I'm sleepless
Afraid of what I might become
Of course I've tried to ignore
But still it leaves me feeling numb
I wished I could've done more
It's taken over every cell
Why are you drowning yourself
When you are so unwell?
I can't reach your hand
I can't liberate you
I know you're alive
But in my heart I've said goodbye
So tonight, I'm sleepless
Sleepless, sleepless
I keep this out of sight, out of mind
But I never left it all behind
I never left it all behind, behind
I can't reach your hand
I can't liberate you
I know you're alive
But in my heart I've said goodbye
So tonight, I'm sleepless
I'm sleepless, sleepless
I'm sleepless, sleepless
I'm sleepless, sleepless
Russell McMorran
December 19, 2020
Musing, remembering you, and so it will always be for the time that is left to me. The hurt has not diminished, but neither has the love that mum and me feel for you. I know nothing of what the future may hold, I'll just have to wait and see! dadxx.
Russell McMorran
October 24, 2020
We can't pretend it never happened, it is what it is, we are are where we are and all that - but it hasn't become any easier, it never will.
Miss you my boy, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
August 24, 2020
We were all caught up in the Whirlwind Andrew, and mum and me are still spinning!
To say that we miss you is a serious understatement, we just don't have the words to express how we feel. Love from all your family,xxxx.
Russell McMorran
July 3, 2020
We stood together and looked up at the starlit sky. The shooting stars came and went, in a moment, and we both wondered Andrew. I cherish those beautiful moments, but they couldn't endure. Your life was bright and brief son, but my love and longing will endure. Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
May 28, 2020
When tomorrows plans were made...yes, but mum and me learned that some of those plans never came to fruition. we just shouldn't plan ahead I guess, and we grieve and mourn still. Love forever, mum and dad xx.
Russell McMorran
April 22, 2020
Remember me when I am gone away...
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned...
[ Christina Rossetti ].
Dad and family, love for ever xxxx.
L H
April 13, 2020
Andy
Today I spoke to you. I hope you heard me.
L
Russell McMorran
March 28, 2020
Forever and always son. Would love to give you a big hug today, but it can't be. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
February 26, 2020
Have lost many conversations that we would have had, and so it is. Miss your voice, miss all of you. What it is to be without you cannot be told out. But you have lost the most, I know it son.Love, dadxx.
Russell McMorran
January 28, 2020
It's your birthday on January 29th - I have no words son.
Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
December 26, 2019
Lux aeternum- your light will always shine Andrew.
Mum and me miss you terribly, especially at Christmas time. Love, Dadxxxx.
Russell McMorran
November 25, 2019
Hello son. I think about you every day. I hope you know, in some way, how much Mum, Grace, Kenny and me love and miss you. Missing you will never go away. Dadxx
Russell McMorran
November 1, 2019
When I call out your name Andrew, and I still do, will I ever hear your answering echo?
Miss you son. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
October 6, 2019
Met you on the path in the Botanics. You looked up, recognised me and smiled your wonderful smile.I knew then that this was a meaningful moment,but didn't know why at the time. Your family miss you so much Andy. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
October 6, 2019
I saw you walking towards me on the path in the Botanics. You lifted your head and recognised me and smiled the most wonderful smile.My heart skipped more than a few beats Andy, my soul was touched! I knew this meeting was of some import, but I didn't know why at the time. Your family misses you so much son. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
August 25, 2019
The Sun was shining and the sky clear.The flowers were yellow and vibrant - we could see Shell Bay too. Outwardly peaceful,but inwardly our hearts ached. Miss you so much Andrew. Love always, Mum and Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
July 25, 2019
Lay it down...lay it all down son.
Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
June 24, 2019
Dad's birthday again, and you should have been here beside me...
Missing you so very much. love, dadxx
June 24, 2019
Dad's birthday again...and you should have been at my side. We are all missing so much.
Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
May 26, 2019
Yes, we long for yesterdays and hindsight...
dadxx
May 4, 2019
And we know that 'nothing gold can stay'.
But mum and me still have two of the three precious golden vessels left, and they are a wonderful comfort!
Dadxxxx.
May 3, 2019
Sweet dreams little brother X
Russell McMorran
April 26, 2019
living my life with you on my mind,
Thinking of things that I left far behind,
It's been so long.
doing all I can do,
To get back to you...
Love everlasting, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
March 27, 2019
What is life to me without thee,
What is left if thou art gone...
[Orfeo ed Eurydice; Gluck].
Mum and me must carry on Andrew, for the sake of your sister and brother, and your little nieces and nephew. But life is not the same without you!
Love for ever, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
February 24, 2019
Where does the uttered music go?
What is this creature,
Music, save the art,
The rhythm that the planets journey by,
The living Sun-Ray entering the heart,
Touching the life,
With that which cannot die?..
(John Masefield).
All the little musical utterences that you heard from mum and me when you were a child, may they always be with you son. Some thing will never die, surely. Love,Dadxx.
and love never dies
Russell McMorran
January 24, 2019
Watchman, what of the night?...
Mum and me must believe that there will be a new dawn. And in that moment we will see you silhouetted against a beautiful soft red rising Sun; and us eagerly awaiting your loving embrace.
We miss you so very much Andrew. Love,Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
December 26, 2018
I embrace you with my spirit son, and with all of my being. It is another Christmas without you and no easier to negotiate than those in the intervening years.
Love, dadxxxx.
Russell McMorran
November 27, 2018
Still wondering, still heartbroken, still waiting for the sun to shine again...
Love, Dadxx
Russell McMorran
October 22, 2018
What love, what loss!!
'Thinking about you today Andrew'. Remember I used to text that little message to you? And you always replied: It's alright, I'm fine dad.
No one will ever know how much mum and me miss you! Love, dadxx.
October 4, 2018
I ruffled your beautiful white hair again Andrew, saw your face and heard your voice - but it was only in a dream; how cruel!
Forever with you, love, dadxx.
Russell McMorran
September 19, 2018
What if, what if..?
I know what happened can't be changed, but I can't stop asking - it's just the way it is!
I miss you son, Love, dadxx.
Russell McMorran
September 1, 2018
..rivalling the glittering sunshine with his glorious golden hair...(paraphrase).
and so he did!
Love, Dadxx
Russell McMorran
July 7, 2018
We will all sit together under the Plain tree again Andy - where we will continue our conversation. You will have a story to tell, I know. Love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
June 17, 2018
Father's day today Andrew! You should have been here at my side son - That's how it's meant to be, right?
He was born to be our friend...
Love, Dadxx
Russell McMorran
June 8, 2018
Thinking about you today again Andy.
Mum and Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
May 26, 2018
On turning I saw that the Sun had dimmed...
And so it has been ever since that day. Forever remembering, love, Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
April 16, 2018
...Time and Truth, and one could add Justice - it will all be told out son.
Your mum and dad, who will always love and remember you.xx
Russell McMorran
March 23, 2018
Sometimes in those still, quiet moments, I listen for your voice or your characteristic buzz on our flat entry system. To see you coming through our door perhaps, but my heart sinks, for it cannot be! Oh, son how we love and miss you. Dadxx
Russell McMorran
February 21, 2018
Soon the night will pass,
through tears and graft-
What promise will the sweet morning bring?
Oh, sweet, sweet is your memory my gorgeous boy!
Dadxxxx.
Russell McMorran
January 28, 2018
Your birthday tomorrow Andrew (29th January)- it would have been your 40th. Mum and me will miss celebrating that moment with you so very much. Yet we still look back in wonder at your birth, gazing on your beautiful for the first time.We will never forget son!
Our hearts ache, for you lost so much, and so have we.
He trusted in Him that he would deliver him...
Dad and mumxxxx.
Russell McMorran
January 20, 2018
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people...
We know that you are comforted Andrew. Mum and me continually seek comfort, but much of the time there is only a cruel void. Love, Mum and Dadxx.
Russell McMorran
December 29, 2017
The wind carries your spirit hither and thither Andrew! I watch and listen for a whisper or a glimpse of something meaningful - I long to hear your sweet, gentle voice again son. Love, Dad xx.
December 7, 2017
Andrew, and it still hurts terribly son. Remembering the wonderful times we all had together. Mum, Dad, Grace and Kenneth.xxxx
Russell McMorran
November 27, 2017
Your little Gran has crossed that boundary today Andy! [27/11/2017]. Can it be that there will be some kind of reunion? Let us hope that it is so. Love, Dad xx.
November 4, 2017
Another month has passed since we lost you. Another month added to the many Andrew, but we cannot turn back the clock son. Mum and me still cannot comprehend the enormity of all that happened - but we must continue to remember you and reflect on all that we have lost. We love you of course but we miss you more every day. Dadxx.
russell mcmorran
October 9, 2017
We climbed the hill together son. This time you have sped ahead of your old dad, and I know that you are waiting for mum and me at the summit. I cannot describe how much we miss you Andrew. Love, dadxx.
russell mcmorran
September 18, 2017
What of love? It wasn't enough to keep you with us, yet we continue to love and remember.It is all we have left apart from sorrow.
Love, dadxx
March 4, 2017
Not yet the morn Andrew!
Beneath the quivering leaves,
where shelter comes at last,
all sorrow sinks to rest,
or glides into the past.
His sweet eyes prison'd now
in their soft silken bars,
oh, my son, calm he sleeps beneath
the trembling stars!
Ah, wake not yet from thy repose,
a fair dream spirit hovers near thee,
weaving a web of gold and rose,
through dream lands happy Isle
to bear thee.
Sleep, son, it is not yet the dawn,
Angels guard thee, sweet boy, til the morn!
[Paraphrase from Godard's 'Berceuse'.]
February 6, 2017
It was the hardest thing that mum and me ever had to do - that February day in Markinch. Our hearts broken, we proceed with great difficulty through this life. Love from mum and dadxx.
December 20, 2016
trying to remember the many Christmases we spent together son; can't remember them all but the remnants are precious. We will miss your special presence this year again Andrew - a wonderful son! Love, dad,mum, grace and kennethxxxx.
November 23, 2016
sorrow and love flow mingled down...
love, dadxx
October 29, 2016
remembering your gentle voice son.
dadxx.
September 20, 2016
Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. A person labouring under calamity is usually sad. Then, there is a contempt of the landscape felt by him/her who has just lost by death a dear friend[son]- paraphrase.(Emerson).
dadx
August 21, 2016
What's this all about son? Can hardly take it all in.Your family miss you, we miss you more every day - our hearts ache for you Andrew. Love, dadXXXX.
July 21, 2016
think of you every waking hour.
Love, dadxxxx
May 21, 2016
Watchman, how much longer until morning? When will the night be over?...have you seen him whom my soul loves? (extracts from an intriguing collection of ancient texts). Thinking of you always, dadxx
March 27, 2016
'Easter' - can we dare to hope?
love, dadxx
March 19, 2016
On my mind continually son. There was so much still left to do Andrew. Love you and miss you always, dadxxxx
February 22, 2016
'If ye had been whar I ha'e been...' and we havn't been there Andrew! It's not fair son, but little in life is fair. See you at the top of the Braes. Love, dadxx
January 29, 2016
Was it yesterday that I held your hand
As you slipped away.
No it just seems that way.
I held your hand as you grasped life and I held it as it slipped away
Four years to the day.
As my baby slept then
So you sleep on today.
January 24, 2016
Love that will not let me go...Dadxx
December 22, 2015
Not together physically this Christmas Andrew, but our hearts and spirits are certainly joined to you son. Our hearts are forever sore. Miss you and love you. Mum, dad, grace and kennethxxxx.
December 22, 2015
Not together physically this Christmas Andrew, but our hearts and spirits are certainly joined to you son. Our hearts are forever sore. Miss you and love you. Mum, dad, grace and kennethxxxx.
November 30, 2015
St. Andrew's day; such a noble and meaningful name.Mum and me named you after him.
Love, mum and dadxx.
September 26, 2015
we can't love you more than we do Andrew, but we miss you more every day- and the hurt remains. Love from dad, mum, grace and kennethxxxx
August 24, 2015
...but he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sunrise. From Blake, one of your favourite poets Andrew.Miss you son, love dadxxxx
July 26, 2015
Mum and me would love to give you a big hug again.language is unable to express just how much we miss you. Love, mum and dadxxxx.
June 22, 2015
where no storm clouds rise...an unclouded day. love, dadxxxx
May 27, 2015
Always thoughtful and generous; such a great loss. Love dadxxxx
April 29, 2015
like a little candle burning in the night;love from mum, dad, grace and kenneth xxxx.
March 18, 2015
I'm listening son: love dadxx
February 25, 2015
on my mind;dadxx
January 2, 2015
dad: missing you son
September 3, 2014
russell mcmorran
August 6, 2014
Beate Heinrauch
June 23, 2014
dad: missing you son
June 1, 2014
Emma x
May 17, 2014
from dad,with a broken heart
February 7, 2014
ann mcmorran
August 19, 2013
russell and ann mcmorran
August 19, 2013
russell mcmorran(dad)
January 31, 2013
Emma ramsay and ann x
April 18, 2012
Doug Pitchers
March 1, 2012
karen serbert
February 15, 2012
Beate Heinrauch
February 10, 2012
Stuart Peterson
January 21, 2017
The Rowan Tree
Now you are gone,
We meet no more,
Beneath the Rowan tree.
But hallowed thoughts,
Around you twine,
Oh Rowan tree.
You will always be dear to me.
You were with mum and me when we chose our Rowan tree. It grew with us for a few years, we observed it together. It still grows Andrew, we can see it from our window. It is your tree son and it reminds us of you, although we think about you every day in any case. Your birthday is approaching and we miss you more than ever. Love from your family; dad, mum, grace and kennethxxxx
October 18, 2016
Come Back
If I don't fall apart,
will my memory stay clear?
So you had to go,
And I had to remain here.
But the strangest thing today;
So far away.
And yet you feel so close
I'm not going to question it any other way.
There must be an open door -
for you to come back (Pearl Jam).
One of your favourite groups Andrew.
These words mean much to me son.
Love, dadxx
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