Family's tears after finding mum's hidden note the day after she died
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA grieving son sorting through his mum's affairs the day after she died discovered a heartbreaking note. The handwritten note, penned 40 years earlier, was found tucked away in a file full of paperwork in March 2022.
Steve Butterworth, 64, was sorting through his mum's documents alongside his sister when they made the discovery. The Royal Navy veteran from Ramsbottom told the Manchester Evening News: "We were just going through the paperwork and it was while we were going through that, pressed down in the bottom of one of the files, were two sheets of notepad paper.
My sister was in tears and it brought a lump to my throat." On two pieces of paper was a poem written by his mum, Barbara, who had secretly written it while he was serving in the Falklands in 1982.
Titled 'Something's Missing', the poem recounts Steve's childhood bedroom lying empty and quiet while he was away fighting onboard HMS Intrepid aged 22.
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