in memory of
Preposition
Meaning
in memory of
Honoring and reminding people of (someone who has died).
Examples
Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
No monument should stand over my grave, only an apple-tree, in memory of the three apples; the two of Eve and Paris, which made hell out of earth, and that of I. Newton, which elevated the earth again into the circle of heavenly bodies.
They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim's feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive.
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower-suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
In memory of those things these words were born.