EVA’S TRIBUTE
EVA SUSSANNA CHRYSAFIS
18th November 1944 – 27th March 2025
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Dear family and friends I want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can send our Eva Susanna to her everlasting new world. She’s no longer among us but her beautiful spirit and those that knew her well will always remember her kindness, generosity and her great smile. Eva was a classic lady and everyone loved her kind personality.
For those that travelled from abroad and other places from Cyprus I want to thank you all for your support at such difficult times.
I also want to thank those wonderful doctors and kind nurses at our small Polis Hospital for taking care of Eva and trying their hardest to reduce her pains.
But we all knew that nothing could save Eva from her terminal cancer! It was only a matter of time before she left us all and meets our son Alexis and daughter Tina Marie. We talked about that moment many times between us; one of us had to go first! In fact my Eva has even chosen the dress and shoes she wanted to be buried with.
Sadly she suffered badly for the last few months and the pains were unbearable but she also lost the ability to do things that she liked; walking and the gardening she loved. Nigh time was the worse to deal with.
At this time of the year we would go in Akamas looking for beautiful wild flowers; but not this time! Eva loved all forms of life including little creatures but most of all she loved flowers!
Recently she was deteriorating very fast and the pains never stopped hurting. Each day passing she got worse, lost her appetite, became thinner and I tried my best to care for her and make her walk a little to strengthen her muscles.
At the hospital we sometimes sat in the sunroom next to the Ward so she can get out of bed for a while. Standing and walking for my Eva has become very difficult.
About two weeks ago, Eva managed to walk to the sunroom when we both noticed the dried up garden full of weeds when she said to me, “look Andreas…look at that beautiful red flower, I think it’s a rose”. She said and got excited about the blooming flower and for the first time, she smiled seeing the beautiful red rose.
Only a few days ago I managed to take her into the sunroom again. I noticed that she kept looking outside the dry garden as if she was searching for something when she said to me in her low voice, “look Andreas, that beautiful red flower has now died”.
I was shocked by her observing comment knowing that my own “beautiful flower was also dying” and there was nothing that I could do to save her!
I then made her a promise that I will make sure beautiful roses will grow in abundance in that little Hospital garden so patients can admire colourful flowers full of life and not look at dead ones. That was a promise that I will keep in Memory of my Eva. And so…
Farewell Eva Susanna my loving wife
I hope your journey is a pleasant one!
And the road ahead of you to be a smooth one
Go on to the place where your spirit belongs
And do not worry about me being left behind
For we shall meet again, one day soon!
Andreas C Chrysafis
March 30, 2025
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