Sadie Vickerman

“It’s all our memories that will keep you near.”

Sadie sadly passed away on 3rd June 2022 in the care of Station House Care Home aged 93 years.

Beloved wife of Kenneth and devoted mum of Elaine. Sadie will be so sadly missed but fondly remembered by all who knew her.

Her funeral will take place on Wednesday 15th June at Crewe Crematorium Chapel at 11.30am followed by burial in the cemetery.

For further information and to offer your condolences, please telephone our funeral home on 01270 584447

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We take comfort that Sadie was able to live out her final
years, bar these last few months, in her own home, thanks to
the loving care of husband Ken, helped by other family
members, and kind neighbours in Coleridge Way.
We also take comfort, that in the final days in Station House,
she was surrounded by family and their deep love for her.
She was not afraid of dying. In fact, she was all set to meet up
again with those lost loved ones whom she sensed were
waiting for her, especially perhaps looking forward to
reunion with her own father.
Sadie was born in Crewe in 1928 to Joseph and Ada Brierley.
The youngest of 4 children, she had 2 sisters, Renee and
Norah and a brother, Herbert. She was Aunty to Renee’s
daughter Glynis and Herbert’s daughter, Andrea and great
aunt to Glynis’s son, Andrew.
Sadie enjoyed a happy childhood, despite the fact that life
would have been quite drab and tough in the 1930’s. She and
her friends would play in Market Street or Newdigate Street
or gather under the kids’ chosen lamp-post in Wrexham
Terrace. These youngsters would sometimes serenade the
local residents, who looked out at them from their windows.
Her special song was O Danny Boy (played as a reflective
piece during the funeral).

Straight from school, she started work in CWS Shirt Factory
on Camm Street and during this time, Sadie met her future
husband Ken. She vividly recalled him standing on Burton’s
Corner looking dapper and wearing an eye-catching tie.
Well, he soon started to take an interest in dancing in the
Astoria dance hall in Heath Street where Sadie just happened
to be dancing as well and so to courtship, a wedding in 1952,
a honeymoon in Blackpool, and family life together – first of
all with Ken’s parents and then on to Sorbus Drive, Henry
Street, Calder Avenue and to Coleridge Way.
That marriage was made in heaven. It brought them both
great joy and satisfaction. And it has more than stood the
test of time – 70 years!! But now the loss and heartbreak for
Ken after all those years is so hard to bear. If you have
devoted yourself to someone, if you have had the trust of
someone – apparently Ken was the only car driver Sadie felt
safe with – there is a huge hole now in your life.
In 1960, their only daughter Elaine was born in the Cliffe
Maternity Home in Wybunbury. Elaine has always been an
extremely important part of Sadie’s life. Sadie used to sing to
Elaine when she was young and Elaine especially remembers
her singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow to her. (This song
was played at the start of the funeral.) Sadie and Elaine have
always been very close, especially in later years.
Her family then increased when Elaine gave birth to her
daughter Hollie and then Hollie’s daughters, Chloe and
Emmie joined the family. Sadie was also very fond of Elaine’s
partner John and was happy to meet and welcome Hollie’s
new partner, Chris.

We think of the way being a good mother and grandmother
and great-grandmother is at the heart of loving relationships
and the building of trust and goodwill. A mother’s love gives
us a picture in miniature of God’s love for us, his children.
Hollie, Sadie’s granddaughter, used to spend a lot of time
with Sadie and Ken as she was growing up. Her sense of loss,
like Ken’s and Elaine’s, will be acute.
Each family member will have their own precious memory of
Sadie – perhaps learning to bake or sew, knit and crochet.
Some will remember the way Sadie would tell them she loved
them. They have all learned about relationships, and
faithfulness, and loyalty and lots of other things from Sadie.
Sadie came of that generation which knew the value of
things. “Waste not, want not” was a motto she took
seriously. Such standards and values are run-away winners
when we really think about things, as we try to be good
stewards of the environment, to live within our means.
Sadie had an aesthetic/artistic streak in her life and
appreciated lovely things, especially her figurines.
We can see that also in many aspects of her life – the way
she turned herself out, her dress sense, her dancing which so
entranced Ken, her dressmaking and knitting, her sketching.
The family trusted her judgement on what looked good
although her brutal honesty on your appearance might not
be what you wanted to hear! Still it always made Elaine and
Hollie smile.
Sadie loved shopping and sport, especially the athletics and
Wimbledon and always said she loved to see talent.

Sadie connects us with times and places round here which
many today will not remember. We have lost another part of
our history and roots. Although many don’t appreciate it, we
live our lives today thanks to the lives of people like Sadie
who went before us.
Many things change, but not everything. The importance of
love and faithfulness doesn’t change. Similarly, the value of
honesty and integrity doesn’t change. Loyalty and privacy
were very important to Sadie, and their value is constant.
Sadie had contentment in her heart – she had no wish to seek
out greener pastures. She did not hanker after the bright
lights or the next new thing. That contentment with life is a
wonderful quality. If you have contentment in your heart,
you will probably also have a sense of gratitude – gratitude to
others, gratitude to God. Then you are blessed indeed, and
you have an urge to share blessings with others.

While we believe we will be reunited with loved ones again,
and those who love Sadie will see her again, in the
meanwhile she leaves you fragrant and uplifting memories.
Rejoice in those memories, now absolutely priceless. Smile
and chuckle as she might have smiled and chuckled. Be
better people for having been in her company.
Sadie has now been laid to rest in the family grave – the
grave of the family which she cherished so much. But that is
just a token of something spiritual in the heavenly places. She
now rests in the company of those who have gone before
her, in the peace of God’s love which holds her safe for all
time, and the love which also embraces us all.

Ken wants to thank you Sadie for all the happiness they have
had together. He hopes to see her again.

May she rest in peace.