We have read the website dedicated to Sam and Michala and it is a truly beautiful tribute to them both. Myself and Danielle would like to follow your lead and put a copy of Michala's eulogy on there (see attached).
We have also attached two of our favourite photographs of Michala taken at Danielle's wedding. The first is one of her looking beautiful as ever and the second of the three of us illlustrating our words from the eulogy. Hope they come out ok please let us know if there are any problems.
We hope that you and your family are coping as best you can. The words on this website are proving to be of great comfort to us, thank-you for that.
Danielle and Becky
xxx
Our Michala
Michala was many things to many people – but to us she was our big sister, and this is how we would like to remember her today.
Having a sister as intelligent, talented and beautiful as Michala you could go one of two ways: you could either resent or worship her. We worshipped her.
From an early age we realised that Michala would be a hard act to follow. Even family holidays were lessons in humility. On one family holiday a ten year old Michala walked away with first prize in the treasure hunt, dancing and sand castle competition.
To know Michala was to love her, and this applied to everybody including teachers. I remember one time at upper school during my first Art lesson, a particularly mediocre still-life painting of a plant I had done was praised to masterpiece standards once the teacher discovered I was Michala Emmett’s sister. He soon learnt that Michala was in fact the only artist in the family.
Michala was very passionate about the things she liked and this was evident in her taste in music: from Adam Ant to Jarvis Cocker – Take That to The Smiths, she never did anything by halves. One of her most treasured possessions was a piece of Morrisey’s shirt that she had ripped off whilst at a concert. It is no secret that as sisters our music taste sometimes differed, but to this day we can recite word perfectly various Smiths tunes.
Michala was the most supportive older sister we could ask for, we are proud of what a close relationship we had. We were not only sisters but best friends. This week we feel that we have lost the better part of us, but we have been told that we are in fact three parts of one whole and will forever have a special angel on our shoulder guiding and protecting us as only Michala can.
Whether as a dancing partner, shopping partner or confidante in our eyes Michala was as close to perfect as you are going to get; bar a surprising tendency to road rage.
She was not only the best sister but also the best daughter. As the eldest, mum and dad were thrown into a new situation when Michala suggested her first outing to the Indie club Tumblers. Michala was given a rather tame curfew of midnight. The club only opened at eleven so she had one hour to make the most of, before being picked up by dad. Throughout this Michala was uncomplaining and even tempered as usual merely packing everything into that hour, including a number of 50pence pints which were Tumblers speciality
We find we cannot talk about Michala without mentioning her legendary sense of humour. Her passionate and rather eccentric devotion to Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the comedians from the Fast Show and the Mary Whitehouse Experience is remembered by family, friends and colleagues alike and went some way to helping her hone her own rather unique wit. Sam once explained that one of the things he loved about Michala the most was when he realised a second too late that she was winding him up. Sam himself was the perfect match for Michala’s humour making them the perfect double act and an hour spent in their company was never to be forgotten. Sam was a welcome addition to many family parties thanks to his eccentric interpretation of party tunes and a willingness to undress for any occasion.
As the ‘trail blazer’ of the family Michala wowed everybody with her academic achievements. Michala never made life easy for herself and her hard work ethic was legendary, her graduation from Oxford University and subsequent calling to the ‘Bar’ were two of the proudest days in our family history.
The loss of Michala has left a gaping hole in our lives but we derive some comfort from the fact that we had never seen her happier. The last year with her work, the engagement, hen-do, and wedding was the happiest of her life. Sam was the love of her life and a fantastic brother-in-law. Anyone who saw them together could see how perfectly matched they were.
As Father Molloy, the priest who married them, said "Their love was so strong that even death could not part them."
To our darling sister, we love you and will miss you more than words can express. We have been so lucky to have you in our lives and your absence will leave a huge gap in the lives of everyone who knows you.
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