A Humanist Celebration of the Life of

Stephen Robert Ledbetter

5th December 1953 – 5th August 2020

Mendip Crematorium

Friday 28th August 2020 at 11.30 a.m.

ORDER OF CEREMONYLed by Julie Wright of Humanists UK

MUSIC ON ENTERINGIn Your Own Sweet Way

performed by Dave Brubeck from the album‘Dave Brubeck, Young Lions & Old Tigers’

WORDS OF WELCOME

THOUGHTS ON LIFE AND DEATH

TRIBUTE

A PERSONAL APPRECIATIONfrom Alan Rowntree

MUSIC FOR REFLECTIONRoy Hargrove

performed by Dave Brubeck featuring Roy Hargrove from the album ‘Dave Brubeck, Young Lions and Old Tigers’

READING‘When I am Gone’ by Lyman Hancock

Read by Ralph Ledbetter

When I come to the end of my journeyAnd I travel my last weary mile,

Just forget if you can, that I ever frownedAnd remember only the smile.

Forget unkind words I have spoken;Remember some good I have done.

Forget that I ever had heartacheAnd remember I’ve had loads of fun.

Forget that I’ve stumbled and blunderedAnd sometimes fell by the way.

Remember I have fought some hard battlesAnd won, ere the close of the day.

Then forget to grieve for my going,I would not have you sad for a day,

But in summer just gather some flowersAnd remember the place where I lay,

And come in the shade of eveningWhen the sun paints the sky in the west

Stand for a few moments beside meAnd remember only my best.

CLOSING WORDS

COMMITTAL

MUSIC ON LEAVINGBlues by Five

performed by The Miles Davis Quintet from the album‘Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet’

Lunch after the ceremony to be held at theWestbury Inn, Westbury-sub-Mendip, BA5 1HA,

to which you are all warmly invited.

Donations should you wish to make them are toWeston Hospicecare

and may be left at the service or sent to

W.B.Gibbs & Sons, Funeral Directors,Riverside, Henton, Wells, Somerset, BA5 1PD

Tel: 01749 672450 / 672550