Weir November 12th 2023 (Suddenly) at His Home 36 Ballyclug Mews Ballymena. Alastair James Beloved Son of the late James and Elizabeth and loving brother of Avril, Shirley and Davis. Brother-in-law to John and Uncle to Sheryl Rodney and Peter. Funeral Service in Stevensons Funeral Home 30 Cushendall Road Ballymena on Wednesday the 15th at 12.30pm followed by interment in Ballee cemetery. House private. Family flowers only please Donations if desired for Macmillan Cancer support c/o James Stevenson & Son (Address as above) Will be lovingly remembered by His Sorrowing Family and the entire Family circle.
Lovely dear old friend from long ago who taught me to draw faces, we lost touch with the passing of time, we first met in 1991 we went to a halloween ball alistair dressed up in coat and tails wild hair, he made me a beautiful black dress in a pam hogg style but with a hemmed silk peplum with subtle edged sequin always an artist and very accomplished in design art fashion, it was a brill nignt 33 yrs ago he took photos that i remember being taken that night, i was in them!, we knew each other until 2001.
The last time i spoke with alastair was on a bus one November evening in ’01 he asked me to call to see him and phillip but sadly i had to leave northern ireland to go to a womans refuge in england shortly after our last meeting because of spousal abuse and my life direction changed very greatly after that, and i had to leave a lot of friends and family behind because of what happened and days turn into years and i bitterly regret never seeing alastair ever again as he helped me twice when i was homeless in the 90’s, but more than that he was a really good friend.
Alastair was a fiercly private man regarding his family who he adored but he let me in as it were and always talked to me about his mum and told me lots of lovely stories of all the people he grew up with, i will always miss you and i was very down and shocked depressed very deeply inside last year when i found out that you’d died, i always thought we’d see each other eventually to catch up, but it was not to be and i feel a sense of loss for you, never ever do you envisage the day such an impactful energy force that is a friend you very much love who you thought of so much over the course of your own life no matter where you are or where you’ve been, you just can’t ever believe they will ever die and alastair was going to live forever to me!
I’m now 51 i was 17 when i first met that powerhouse of funny sweet creative human man, he lives on in my mind as he will in others every time i’ve went to camerons in ballymena i always think of the fact alastair was a window dresser there.
With alastair’s story teller ability and popularity he won’t ever be alone in heaven and he will be dressing up and decorating someones room somewhere in heaven.
Love you! miss you very much now and for always, susan xo.