Thanks a lot Adam. I appreciate your photos very much. Lucie has been looking for a nice place for a long time. Now I know the she indeed has found a nice place for her sister.

I have not visited the cemetery yet, because noone knows when Andrea's grave will be there. I've kind of lost contact to Lucie lately, who doesn't live in Prague but in another town. I'm only in touch with Monica Sweetheart, Andrea's best and closest friend, who is working on the second part of Andrea's biography for this website at present. Neither she nor me have current informations from Lucie when Andrea's grave and the monument will be finished. Monica mentioned that it's a sad situation that nobody can go to a place to worship Andrea, the one we loved. Sometime there will be a place, I'm sure. And time only matters for us, not for her anymore ...

I decided from the chronicle duty to supplement this old topic.

I described my first visit on the graveyard in Dablice in my post from 12 Nov 2005. I wrote you that I had found the special place where  I had felt somehow strange. I suggested that the Andrea’s grave would be in this place.
What happened then was really uncanny . I am doubting that anybody believes me. Nothing similar happened to me never earlier. I know now that I was right. It is a place which I looked for. I marked this place in the satellite photograph.

I arrived in Prague several times since then in order to visit this place. I did also a few photographs. From these photographs I did for you the photographic impression:  " The Three Seasons" ( like Vivaldi )

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The Three Seasons

Fall
   6-Nov-2005

Winter
   21-Jan-2006

Spring
   23-Apr-2006

to be continued ...

 

Thank you very much, Marek for visiting Lea's resting-place and for the latest photos taken.

It was very kind of you.

Best wishes from afar.

Vic, UK.  Friday 20 November 2009.
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Below are Pavel's photos from his last visit in 2009:

The "Scroll Memorial" picture that Pavel kindly laid on Lea's grave was as below:

Thank you again, Angostura. Pavel is intending to visit Lea's graveside again later this year with flowers and a card for all of us far away.

With deepest thanks.

Dear Friends,

I have heard from Pavel in the Czech Republic that the special memorial flowers are being prepared on behalf of us all to take to Lea's (Andrea's) last resting-place at Dablice.  As soon as any photos are to hand, they will be posted here and at Lea's  site within the former CSS Forum.  Best wishes, Victor(UK). 6th December 2010.

Now it is 6 years that Lea have gone from us!

Now she is a new star shining in the sky!

You will always be remembered!

Rest In Peace Lea De Mae

Photos

The above photos were all taken by Pavel at Dablice Cemetery, Czech Republic on 9 December 2010

Pavel visited Lea's last resting-place at Dablice Cemetery in very cold and snowbound conditions on 9th December 2010, the "Sixth Anniversary" of the passing away of lovely Lea (Andrea).  Please see above some of the photos taken by Pavel and also the dedication words on the "ribbon" attached to the flowers placed on the gravestone base by Pavel. Below are some words from Michael and Pavel.

Michael wrote:-

Here follows a stanza or two from a poem by Oscar Wilde some verses are apt for Andrea the lovely golden girl:

Tread softly she is near..under the snow
Speak gently she can hear the daisies grow
All her bright golden hair tarnished with rust
She that was young and fair fallen to dust

Peace, peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnett,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it

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Pavel's E-Mail about his visit to Dablice Cemetery on 9 Dec 2010

"I just came home and lit the candles for Andrea. Against all odds, I had to spend major part of the day at work. You know cursed my boss !  Luckily I saved everything I needed to. Approx. at 1 p.m. I arrived at flower shop, where the bunch has been already prepared, tied with the four-part green-golden fillet and the golden sign on it. 

At the cemetery I was taken by surprise, because everything has been covered with a thick snow-cover, although there was thawing all around in the last hours. Simply told,  I wasn´t able to find out Andrea´s tomb.
 
About half an hour I vainly went to and from. Like last year, there was nobody in sight. I asked the gravediggers, but they weren´t able to help me. Then I went to the cemetery office, where (to my surprise) Andrea isn't in the list of decedents at all !!  The officer ask me for the name of the tomb-owner, which I didn't know exactly. We tried sister Lucie, which was right. I got the grave's number and returned to the gravediggers. After a while we found it finally. I had to ask one of them for throwing off the major part of snow with his shovel. Then they left me and I cleaned up the rest of snow to the nines.

When the gravestone was clean,   I put down the bouquet and both laminated pictures, weighted them down with the candles and lit the candle. I took some photos as you will see. Then I stood in quietness, whispering the prayer for Andrea's soul. I told to myself: "I believe you are an angel in the heaven" This painful destiny still gets me down and probably will never stop to act this way. Indeed. I can´t imagine pain of the parents." 

Postscript "Last few hours the weather turned into frost and now the snow is falling densely again.  I'm afraid that the gravestone will be snowed up quickly!  By the way, yesterday I caught a cold when I was wading in the snow. But it´s all in the hands of destiny. Perhaps today someone else is going to visit the grave and will clean it up again."

The "Ribbon" words of dedication on the remembrance bouquet of flowers reads in full:-

"Remembering Lea (Andrea) - from Victor, Michael, Pavel, her fans and admirers everywhere. Dec 2010"

Thanks again to Marek (from Poland) and Pavel (Czech Republic) for their kindness in visiting Lea/Andrea at her final resting-place in remembrance to say quietly a few words to her spirit, on behalf of us all, that we will remember and think of her forever.

This posting also appears in Lea's Forum at the former Official CSS Site:
http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=9318&subForumID=86534&p=2

My visits to Lea's last resting-place at Dablice 12.11.2011

I put flowers on her grave to remember.

Marek F (angostura@wp.pl)

Note:  These 4 photos have also been lost unfortunately.

-- Edited by Vic on Tuesday 8th of December 2015 01:29:29 AM

Dear Marek,

I notice from your nice photos that the Sun is shining!  Last year on 9th December, you'll remember that Pavel had to struggle in the snow and cold to even find Lea's graveside!

Best wishes, Vic.

Thanks very much, Pavel.  I have e-mailed you a few minutes ago.

Pavel is going to Dablice on Thursday 8th with a bouquet for Lea to commemorate the "Seventh Anniversary" of Lea's passing away on 9th December 2004.   Hopefully, we shall get some more photos  - this time without all the snow?

Dear Friends,

Here are some of Pavel's photos from his kind visit to Dablice yesterday in remembrance of the Seventh Anniversary today (9th December 2011) since Lea passed away,...

The wine colour bouquet ribbon's words chosen by Pavel read:

"Always Lea (Andrea) - with love   9. Dec 2011 - Forever in our hearts"

 

 

Very beautiful. She would really like it!

Best regards
Chris


Am 04.12.2011 01:37, schrieb Vic:

Dear Pavel,

 

Please see attached my "Seventh Anniversary" wallpaper.

 

It's a simple one but the photo says it all.  This is my favourite of Chris's informal pictures taken of Lea in September 2003 in Prague.

 

Should you be at Dablice again, please could you place a laminated print of this wallpaper there.  I will of course be happy to send a donation towards the flowers, etc. as last time.

 

With best wishes and thanks,

 

Vic.  4th December 2011

This message arrived yesterday from Pavel (of this Forum) regarding his recent visit last month to Dablice on 8th December 2011 re. the Seventh Anniversary of the passing away of Lea (Andrea) on 9th December 2004...

"The larger part of the year I try to think more about the future and repel racking thoughts. As for my December visit to the grave, this time there was nothing extraordinary. I came to the cemetery about 3 p.m.

The weather was clear, the temperature around zero. Like the year before, there was no one at the cemetery, even gravediggers. As there was no snow, there was no problem to find a tomb. I cleaned it from the fallen leaves, put the candle and laminated pictures on the headstone.

As for flowers, I wanted to be a little different than the previous year. I ordered it by telephone to the same flower shop, and sent them photographs from the previous year. We agreed that it will be somewhat different in colour than the previous two years, while maintaining the character of funeral bouquets. When I picked it up, the florist said goodbye words "See you next year".

As regards Andrea, that's actually almost everything. Every one of us has his piece of sorrow and nostalgia for her. When I was putting the bouquet on the tombstone, I thought to myself something very private. And also, just like previous year, the thought that lot of people will think of her for the rest of their lives, came to my mind. I think, she would be happy knowing that.

A thought occurred to me right now. Sometimes, in the near future, in Spring probably, I will fill all empty candlesticks on the gravestone with the candles and light them.  I know it makes no sense, but somewhere inside I'll maybe feel some kind of relief . Yes, I'll do it, I've just decided."

[Pavel - Czech Republic  9th January 2012]

 

...and thanks to you, Bernd for your kind interest and information on here and the former CSS Forum.

Best wishes for Easter 2012!

 

Thanks very much. Please send us some photos if you have any. Best wishes, Vic.

Hello,

In late November, I was in Prague and I visited Andrea's last resting place. I put down the bouquet of red roses, lit the candles and  said  the prayer for Andrea's soul.

I noticed that a lot of changes have taken place there. There is an array of black marble, from which we can  learn that now this is a last resting place of three people.

Best regards

Adam

 

unfortunately it rained

 

 

-- Edited by Adam on Saturday 1st of December 2012 07:45:38 PM

 

This was a picture for the 9th Anniversary last year.

Next month on December 9th 2014, it will be 10 years since we lost Lea de Mae.

I was wondering who the other two people are who are shown on the gravestone memorial at Dablice Cemetery?

Thanks again to all those admirers and fans of Lea who kindly visited and kept the burial place decorated with flowers before the formal memorial was erected thereby showing fond remembrance for Lea (Andrea).