Like everyone else I have many fond memories of Noor. Noor was special to everyone with a big personality and a bigger heart. Noor had many roles in her lifetime and others will testify to, but to me she wasn't just my Aunt she was also my friend. I met Noor not as a child but as an adult for the first time in the flesh as I grew up on a different continent. But that doesn't mean that I didn't often think of her and her family. As a child I used to borrow her photo and put it under my pillow in the hope that I would meet her in my dreams as well as my reality. To me she looked like my favourite film star: Ingrid Bergman! When I did finally meet her in my 20s she was very different from what I imagined. What I hadn't imagined was that we would have so much in common. We even shared mannerisms which I had not expected! I can only allude to how happy I was that what I felt was a real friendship and respect developed between us. I was fortunate to meet Noor at what was still a formative time in my life. I learnt many things from Noor some of which I feel I must share. Amongst these were a real respect for one's Independence which Noor practiced and cherished till the very end. Secondly that your past and your surroundings defines you as a minor but your future there on is in your hands and you can choose whether you take the past in the future or leave it behind and not least that receiving is as much a part of giving as giving itself as thereby you give the other person the joy of giving, just another aspect of putting others first in her thoughts and actions that Noor lived to. And as you all know Noor was one of Life's givers! I have been very honoured to have known Noor Wolfson and to have been her only niece! Rest in peace and forever in our hearts and thoughts. With all our Love and thank you for the memories. Anisa and Gary
