I met Susan in a Psychology of Religion class we both took at King's College in 2000/2001 time. I remember seeing her and recognizing that she too was a mature student like myself and that she just looked like such a kind and friendly person I hoped I would get to know her. I became friends with Susan and was lucky enough to accompany her to Greenbelt a couple of times. On one of those trips she met her then future husband Andrew at Greenbelt and it does not seem that was almost two decades ago. Not only did she make the effort to stop by to visit me on her way to a relative's wedding in Palm Springs, but again in York when I returned on a summer trip in 2018 she came up for the day and we stole a few hours child free to have a coffee in York and walk the medieval streets.

Susan always made the effort for people and valued relationships with people above all else I would say. She had that rare ability to accept people graciously with all their flaws and find the good in them and I am sure all who have known her have benefitted from that kind of unconditional love that few people are able to give in the genuine way that Susan did.  Deeply kind, generous, thoughtful and gentle are the words I would use to describe Susan.

She was so quietly proud of her two children Rachel and Joel who brought her so much happiness in the years she was able to spend with them. I remember visiting when both Rachel and Joel were newborns and she was just so suited to being a mother and so happy to spend time with them both.She delighted in both of you as babies and I am sure in all the years after that.  Susan was a special person the likes of whom we don't meet every day and she really lived out her Christian faith in her being every day. Lucky are we all to have known and loved her and been loved by here and we only wish we could have had her in our worlds for longer, no one more than Andrew, Rachel and Joel. We will be thinking of you all as you adjust to life without your beloved Susan and we will all miss her for the time to come.