Parents: We will be buried with Helga
The elderly parents of one of the youngest victims of the Lockerbie disaster have revealed they will be buried in the same grave as their daughter, at Tundergarth Church, metres from where her body was found.
John and Lisa Mosey, from the West Midlands, lost their 19-year-old daughter Helga when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky on December 21, 1988.
The 30th anniversary will be marked with church services in Lockerbie, and at Heathrow airport. Many of the victims were from the US, where a series of events will be held, including a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and a service at Syracuse University. The university lost 35 students in the disaster. Mr and Mrs Mosey’s daughter, Helga, was returning to the US where she worked as a nanny.
Mr Mosey, 78, and his wife Lisa, 80, have regularly visited the cemetery where Helga’s ashes are buried.
This year they will be at an outdoor service and wreath-laying in the memorial garden in Lockerbie’s Dryfesdale Cemetery
Mr Mosey said: “Our daughter’s ashes are buried at Tundergarth Church where her body was found, near where the cockpit came down.
“Lisa and I decided we will have our ashes buried in the same grave plot. Space has been left on the grave stone for our names.”
Mr Mosey also revealed he and his wife decided to forgive those responsible.
He said: “It was either that night or the next night, we stood in the hallway of our house and agreed we had to forgive the people who killed our daughter.”