Dear Grahame and family, very sad I am indeed, so proud you are and I send you my very heartfelt love. Brenda.
Amazing Grahame when I read the comments list, I saw Gerald Burger, say hello, havent seen him since looking after them during the Rotorua SPOK tour when he did his reporting from my place just up the road from the stadium. This is very sad, I know you will come back with another strength and thinking of you and your family.
We cannot begin to understand. And we have no way to help you carry this load. But we know you'll receive the strength from elsewhere. Thinking of you and your family every day.
As a farther my heart and prayers go to you and your family god bless
We feel privileged to have known a man of such warmth, spirituality and kindness. With all that, a man of such wit and charm. (He wasn't a bad rugby player either!) With broken hearts and prayers for Brucie, Siobhan and Benjamin; Thorney and family; Jenny-Lynn and family; Bernstein family and all of Brucie's many friends. We shall not look upon his like again... The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut, And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears: Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man. So set, before the echoes fade, The fleet foot on the sill of shade, And hold to the low lintel up The still-defended challenge-cup. And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's.
Our sincere condolances. Bruce was a man in a million and a wonderful husband to my niece,Shiobon, and a great dad to baby Benjamin. May you rest in peace Big Boy. You will be sadly missed.
Thorney, we are thinking of you at this sad time, be strong. Kind Regards Jason
Deepest sympathy's Grahame to you and your family.
Sad news, Thorney. Sad news. I am speechless. Be strong my friend. Best wishes,Herman