Dedicated to the life of Davida.

We thank everyone for joining us to celebrate the life of Davida Hamilton on Friday 22nd November 2024. As a much loved wife, mother, sister, friend, colleague and member of many different parts of the community, we enjoyed sharing stories and raising many a glass in her memory. 

This site is a tribute to Davida where you can share pictures and memories.

If you weren't able to join in person, you can watch the recorded service online here, with the order of service here. And a copy of her eulogy, beautifully written by her daughter Chloe, and read by her dear university friend Carole Osterweil is available here. 

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We welcome anyone who knew Dee to share photos, memories and tributes on this page. The family will be downloading and collating everything offline.

Thoughts

May our wonderful times and adventures together forever keep us strolling arm in arm down Kenley Lane.
Cousin Leslie, Gloucester Massachusetts
17th November 2024
I’m Davida’s cousin Mark, from the States. My mother was also a Davida and Dee was named after her, a poignancy that compounds the pain because cancer took my mother too early as well. Dee’s strength, courage, and resolve, not to mention her grace and elegance (how was this possible?) in the face of her illness awed me and gave me naive hope. In my last one-on-one text with her a few months back, my sign-off included, “À la prochaine.” “À la prochaine indeed,” started her reply, but I was too wishful for it to register fully. Looking back, she was obviously alluding, with her trademark wit and wisdom, to a space beyond the earthly. Appreciating this affords some solace and makes me recognize more clearly, some eighteen days after the heartbreaking news, that Dee’s presence cannot be extinguished by her illness finishing its course. “Death, be not proud” suddenly resonates in a way that reading Donne as a student never did. Dee is present in all who loved her and whose lives she touched. She will continue to guide and be cherished by her family. She may always be turned to for wisdom or support. She can even make one laugh, through the tears, if they think hard enough. She was so brilliant. She will never be forgotten. I miss her with all my heart.
Mark Rees
15th November 2024
We hope that you find this tribute to Dee a place of comfort, support and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.
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