Close friend and fellow SNP politician Mike Russell gave a eulogy at the service, speaking of his “dear, dear friend who brightened our lives and who we will miss as long as we, ourselves, are on this planet”.<\/p>\n
He said Freeman was “a daughter, steeped in socialism and feminism from her early days, a caring and indulging aunt, a sister and life partner of her beloved Susan, as well as a much-loved member of Susan’s wider family”.<\/p>\n
“All those people are grieving greatly but they are not alone,” he added. “Indeed, this hall today shows how much they are supported. And by so many.<\/p>\n
“The golden thread of care and concern about people was at the very heart of her existence. <\/p>\n
“I am heart sick losing such a friend. I’m angry at the cancer that killed her. I’m saddened for Susan that she has lost her life partner just when they were looking forward to spending much more time together.”<\/p>\n
He added: “We need to channel our tears and distress into what she did – into making this a better world by means of personal example, by the valuing of human support, by building human-centred structures and institutions and being more willing just to join hands with others.” <\/p>\n
He ended his eulogy, which he said Freeman had read, by describing his friend of 20 years as “someone unique, someone we will never forget, our friend Jeane Freeman.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close friend and fellow SNP politician Mike Russell gave a eulogy at the service, speaking of his “dear,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-450917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}