There are some amazing tributes to Mum on her Felicitycorbinwheeler.org website and I thank all those who took the time to remember her with such fondness. In all, she made some 450 televised interviews on Revelation TV, each broadcast to over 100 countries. This is testament to her passion, industry and determination.
She wanted a bold and bright service with no drudgery or depressing organ music. Bold and bright are words I see repeated on her daughter Melanie’s gravestone outside of this church – of course Mel and Mum are together again – a reunion she longed for.
Her love for vivid, bright colours is reflected in the jackets she wore whilst presenting on Revelation TV, which we have adorned around the hearse to reflect her leaving in a burst of colour.
Her You Tube health ambassador videos capture some of her best skills – speaking articulately with great passion about health issues and how to prevent cancer – this is how I think Mum would like to be remembered. We can honour her memory by revisiting those interviews and perpetuating in some small way her legacy.
Sharp minded, Mum was also physically beautiful. See the service cover sheet and inside cover which is a photo from an Italian newspaper referring to her as an English model. Mum modelled in the early 60’s in Dickens and Jones, a big department store in London. One could have lunch and watch the models showing off the clothes down a catwalk. Mum used to walk very well for this reason and showed us as children how to do Paris turns. She was also employed to be a model for the Harrods’s Summer exhibitions in the 60’s.
Mum brought her three children up with our fabulously supportive father, Alan, in London initially and then in Jersey with regular holidays in sunny Portugal.
Mum loved the Algarve and chose to make a new life for herself in Portugal in the early 1990’s. As she was highly persuasive she was a natural at sales and later in life would promote the sales of Portuguese Villas on luxury estates overlooking the prestigious golf courses at Vale do Lobo and Pineros Altos. She met her second husband Bernard Wheeler there and before long they were married, choosing South Africa as their marriage venue (and enabling her to show Bernard places from her childhood). She and Bernard spent many happy years in Portugal until Bernard sadly passed in 2006. Bernard is buried at this Church and Mum will be with him again now and for forever, in accordance with her wishes.
Mum will also be remembered for her love and generosity towards her grandchildren, Alaric, Melora and Kazimira. Alongside her key achievements in life were many ordinary times enjoying family Sunday lunches at Mum’s Links Court flat or on the outside terrace at the L’Horizon Hotel overlooking St. Brelades’ Bay.
The children have fond memories of time spent with their granny; in true Felicity fashion Melora and Kazimira learned how to fold their clothes and together they mastered the art of juicing, later enjoying their healthy creations.
As a child Camilla recollects happy evenings when Mum would put Melanie and herself to bed. Mum would position her arms so as to cast a “swan like” shadow into the bedroom from the hallway light – she’d say “here are the swans who have come to say goodnight”.
The next chapter in Mum’s life was in Spain in Mijas on the West coast near Porto Banús. There her health ministry took off through her collaboration with Revelation TV. Mum was fully immersed in her work there and she reached so many people suffering with cancer and other ailments. Such was her bravery, she would do live televised phone-ins without knowing what people might ask! She was careful to give health advice in her capacity as a “doctor of divinity, rather than medicine” and restricted herself to having well researched views on diet.
She was a fighter and champion for alternative cures for cancer. Prior to her daughter Melanie dying in 1989, in her prime at 20 years of age, Mum promised Mel that she would try to find a better way to treat cancer using the body’s own immune system as a powerful ally. She vigorously fought this view to the last and best proved its efficiency when she defeated her own pancreatic cancer utilizing her own advice in 2003 after being given 6 weeks to live. She survived a further 17 years and died cancer free. Regrettably her commitment to research obsessively for up to 20 hours a day provoked the scoliosis she had as a young woman and it was these spinal bends and the fractures that developed from them that damaged her health. Arguably she sacrificed her own health to help others. I know she would have done this willingly, such was her selflessness.
Mum wished for her Revelation TV programs to be her legacy. She said “be blessed everyone and Get Well Stay Well until the Great Reunion!
May Mum last long in our memories. A loving daughter, wife, mother, a lady of the cloth and a fearless health ambassador. God bless you, Mum.
By Giles Corbin
8th Dec 2020