Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer and Harry,
We are devastated to hear of your loss. We send our love and prayers and will hold dear our memories of beautiful Mel.
“He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata” is a Māori proverb that means "What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people“
With much love,
Louisa, Rich, Nathanael, Reuben and Eli xxx
Sending all my love, my thoughts and prayers are with you all x
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer and Harry,
My thoughts are with you at this difficult time. Melanie was a beautiful lady in every way, her kindness and warmth will be missed by so many.
Sending much love to you all, Belinda xx
Jason & family, our hearts go out to you all, no words can comfort you right now, only time will help you all heal. With our love ❤️
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer, Harry, Frances, Katherine, Ben & Joe.
My heart goes out to you all at this time. There are simply no words I know of to relieve the journey and your individual paths of grief you are all on. Your amazing mum, your beautiful wife, your wonderful daughter and little sister, she will always be one of life’s genuinely beautiful people, through and through. Anyone who’s been privileged to have been blessed to have Mena in their life at any point for as long or short as they have, knows this to be true.
Jason, Lucy, Jennifer & Harry, you don’t know me. I was in the same school year as Mena. I went to Grove Road Infant and Junior school, lived round the corner, went to Brownies and Guides with your Mum and Ruth we had fun times . Tring school too, my fond wonderful memories. We worked at Arts Ed as teenagers with another friend Trudi, where we got to wear a flattering overall and hat and behaved impeccably in our roles, when your Aunt Katherine worked there too.
Your Mum, will always be with you, she will never leave you, when you shut your eyes, see her beautiful face and smile and feel her embrace, rest in that truth and celebrate her in everything you do. As you are each precious, just as she was too, and remains so in each of you.
Sent with a hug
Much love
Jo xxx 🌷
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer & Harry
so many happy memories, of crazy days at university, trips to Alton towers in the Mini, your wedding, when you all came to stay in Berlin and the last time we met up in St Malo.
"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on." – Irving Berlin
Sending you love and thoughts xxx
With great sympathy to family and friends
My dear Jason, Lucy, Jen and Harry,
If only I could find the words to give you comfort at this time. Our thoughts, love and sympathy are with you, and will be always, following the loss of your wonderful wife and mum.
For me, I will always be grateful for the 32 years of fun and friendship I was fortunate enough to have with Mena, from Keele, France, our round the world adventure and the Big Brother house in Berkhamsted. The best letter I have ever written was to your mum, and started the most wonderful of chapters in my life and there’s no one else that I would have shared that time with. When you are ready, you will have your own adventures, and your mum will be with you for every single one of them.
You will always be in my heart too, and I’ll be there if you ever want to hear about or to talk about any of those capers.
Remember though, her greatest and most wonderful adventure was always you.
Sending love, Tapper xxx
Our hearts and thoughts are with you and your family. Love Scott, Kim and Percy x
Thinking of you all as you celebrate Mel’s beautiful life. She will live on in your hearts.
Darling Mel, a lovely lady who will live on in our hearts. Rest peacefully xx
Thinking of you all at this sad time. Love Emma and family
In memory of Mel whom we never met, but prayers and best wishes for Jason, Lucy, Jennifer and Harry at this difficult time.
Remembering Melanie and the happy times, with love from The Sanders family
Our sincere condolences to all of Melanie's family, our thoughts are with you all.
With love from The Sanders Family - Jill, Mary, Julie, David, Mark and Emma xxx
A lovely warm welcoming lady whose children and husband we met briefly but made a huge impression on us at George’s birthday last year .
Truly such a sad time our thoughts are with you all as a family xxx
Mel, may your gentle soul journey onward into a beautiful light of everlasting life.
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer and Harry,
Sending our heartfelt sympathy for your sad loss. It was always such a great pleasure working with lovely Mel during our time at Velox UK. Always so friendly, supportive and caring ! We will always remember her this way. RIP dearest Mel ❤️
Darling Mena
How can you be gone?
You who have been with me since the beginning and whom I have loved my entire life. You who have been at my side through my highest highs and my darkest lows.
Making camps together as kids~singing songs with a hairbrush microphone~collecting rose petals and making ‘perfume’~watching The Incredible Hulk from behind the sofa at your house with ‘treats’~making up routines on the rollerskates~eggie bread and grilled cheesers à la Auntie Fran~cheese and coleslaw and our shared love of anything, well, food!~Wham!~Uptown Girl!~Cher!~karaoke down at Hayling Island~riding our bikes up to Deerleap for a picnic by the pool~school trips~ski trips~Ghostbusters fancy dress~Esther and Jennie and our German exchange~Christmas foods and games around the table at Dellfield~Nanny~meeting in Germany at University~double dates~failed dates~and then, thank God, our forever dates ~holding Lucy, Jenny and Harry for the very first time~playing with them in the Wendy house~the trampoline~Molly~all of the wonderful Christmas Eves~the singing Christmas tree~the way you and Jason came running when Mum needed you and I couldn’t make it, despite everything you were going through~being invited to breakfast with The Bees with a full menu and eating nearly all day~you being my stunning bridesmaid and dancing with you on my wedding night~you and Jason and ‘The Time of your Life’~ the joy of spending time with you Bees as a family~the way you didn’t leave me when we did our first 5k despite being much fitter~the Race for Life for Richy and how you bounded off in front of us all~going through childhood photos and trying to remember all the names~birthday dinners me you Jase and Richy~how very much Jumbo loved you~your love of Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf~the way I have always been in awe of you and Jason and the way you are the very best parents I know~and last but never least and indeed there is so so SO much more…..The Jellycats ❤️
A lifetime of memories that I shall treasure forever. Thank you for being the thoughtful, generous, courageous woman that you are. So kind hearted, so full of love, showing us all how to put others first, right up until the end, the very bestest Melanie Millechippa Bee. Night night sweet heart, I shall carry you with me for the rest of my life, until we meet again in the light.
Je t’aime toujours
Ruthie Rowburger xxxxx
Mel was a very close dear friend who always cared deeply for us all and we will treasure all the fun and happy memories that we shared together. We loved playing silly games, sharing food and laughing at ourselves. From the moment that we met you we realised how important family and friends were to you and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to become your friend. You always made sure we had photos of all of us together and even though the kids at times had to be encouraged to take part, we now feel very lucky to be able to look back at those shared memories that we had over the years. We will miss you dearly but you will be forever remembered and celebrated. You created a beautiful family and you will live on in each of them. With all our love
In loving memory of our dear friend Mel.
Dear Henry, Jennifer, Lucy and Jason
Sending lots of love and strength in these hard times. She lives forever in all of you. Mel was such a kind and sweet person and she will be terribly missed.
Hugs and kisses
Laura, Maria, Geraint and Maria
We are so very sorry to hear this devastating news, Melanie had such a beautiful soul and was a lovely human being. Great friend and we know an amazing mum, wife, daughter and sister...hope that from where she is now, she will send you all the support you will all need to have a beautiful life in memory of her. All our love 💕💕💕
Our thoughts are with you all at this incredibly difficult time. Sending love from Flames Reds - Flames Netball Club
You were such a lovely person to work with and call a friend, we will miss you deeply, always in our heart xx
RIP Mel you were a fab person ❤️
We are thinking of you all
Much love
Auntie Pat and Colin xxxx
With great sadness we send all our love and remembering happy times with you all xxxx
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jennifer and Harry, Our thoughts are with you at this incredibly difficult time. Today and always, may loving memories bring peace, comfort and strength to all of you.
With love, Leigh and Lisa xx
Dear Jason, Lucy, Jen, Harry,
Ruthie and I are devastated for you and with you and are thinking of you all with much love and sympathy.
Beautiful Mena has brought so much happiness and joy to my life from a very young age. Her smile, thoughtfulness, enthusiasm for life and many shared excitements, most recently at the arrival of my little dog, will be treasured always.
There are no words adequate to console you, we will all miss her so much, but I trust your special memories will bring you some comfort at this very difficult time.
Auntie Anne and Daniel
Will be thinking of you all on the 6th and will light a candle for Melanie.
Dear Mel, it's too too sad that you have been taken so soon. I know we didnt see you very much, but you are very dear to us, you were an amazing mum to three great kids, and an amazing wife to one of the nicest men on earth. You will be missed so, so much. Rest in peace. Mike, Liz, Fin and Ellis.
“Melanie was her own unique combination. Superficially a bit quiet. Yet once you got her on her own or with her loved ones a wonderful reservoir of love and laughter would soon become apparent. A smile that lit up a room. Always a worry or three to tell you about, always self-aware that she worried slightly too much. A source of heartfelt wholehearted love, friendship and hugs. We feel lucky to have counted her as a dear friend.” Sending massive Sausagey hugs to The Bees and all Melanies family xx
Dear Jason and family, our thoughts are with you at this very sad time. Lovely Melanie was taken much too soon but will always be remembered with love. Susie, Stephen and family xxx
Sending you love and strength at this incredibly difficult time xxxx
Sending love and prayers xxx
Dearest Jason, Lucy, Jennifer, Harry, Frances, Katherine, Ben and Joe,
Thinking if you all and sending love at this sad time. I was privileged to have so many wonderful memories of time with your wonderful wife, mum, daughter and sister. We met at school with Ruthie and also worked at the Arts Ed, getting up to mischief, singing in her bedroom in Tring and Berkhamsted, school trips to Germany and playing hockey in Holland. She was such a wonderful person who will be missed by so many but her memory will be with you always. RIP Mena. ❤️ xx
Sending our love and strength to the whole family at this very difficult time. All our love xxx
Sending our love to the whole family. Tanja, Claire, Michelle & Family xxx
Thinking of you all today. Wish I could be there, I’m lighting a candle from the other side of the world. Sending so much love to everyone xx
In fond memory of lovely Mel xx
Dear Jason and family
We have been thinking of you all today and send you our love xx
