On Tuesday 12th February, 2013, at 3:00pm a service of thanksgiving to celebrate the life of journalist, Robert Larry Klinger, was held at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street.

The BIDDING PRAYER

The Venerable David Meara delivered the bidding:-

We have come to St Bride's today to remember before God our dear brother in Christ Larry Klinger, to give thanks for his life, to commend him to Almighty God and to comfort one another in our sadness. We remember a man of wit and culture, thoughtful and sociably, a journalist who loved the culture of the old Fleet Street.

As we commend him today into the care and keeping of Almighty God, so we give thanks for all that was good in his life and for the memories we treasure today. Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon him. May he rest in peace.

Amen.

ADDRESSES

Diane Spencer

David Lennon

READINGS

Tim Homfray read John 14: 1-6

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Zoe Philpott, Larry's daughter, read extracts from  The House at Pooh Corner
& Winnie-The-Pooh and All, All, All

MUSIC

The choir & organist of St Bride's performed the following anthems and songs:-

Burial Sentences - Croft

Requiem Aeternam from Requiem - Verdi

Un bel di vedremo from Madame Butterfly - Puccini, sung by Gerardine Arthur

Brindisi from La Traviata - Verdi

Hymns:

Amazing Grace

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer