A very moving tribute Ian. Your words leave me with the feeling I knew her personally. We will all miss this great ambassador for our sport. Gliding certainly does attract some great people. Count yourself amongst the best of them Ian. > > > I was not looking forward to the service for a 27 year old girl - > Lucy's farewell. When I arrived I thought this may be a little > different. There were displays of Lucy's life. I learnt she was the > youngest Ski instructor in NZ at the time and topped her year at Law > at University. The service started with Lucy singing a traditional > Maori song then followed a spectacular electronic slide show. Views > were of where Lucy had been and had seen in her life. Brett Iggulden > told us of the life of Lucy who he had known since age 3. She never > went to regular school up to age 10 instead traveling around USA in a > Kombi with her parents. She was a powerful debater and after law > school went into acting. Regretfully one boyfriend died in a ski > accident and another drowned in Fiji. Unfortunately she had experience > with young people funerals and had time to think about her own > service. Brett only had boys and Lucy became his "daughter" as she > would often visit Bellingen and Byron Bay over the next 20 years. The > service ended with I think four powerful talks by Lucy looking at us > straight in the eye. Messages included how to live our life to the > fullest and how having fatal disease turned her life around and was > something special. It left us all saying Woo - that was powerful - > that was some special girl. She only had praise for all her doctors. > As her father said she never had the opportunity to organise her > wedding - instead she organised her own very special farewell service. > Evidently the messages were recorded mid 2003 and as Gavin said he was > on the video and all of a sudden he was hearing these special messages > from his daughter and thought this is powerful stuff. Brad Edwards, > Brett Iggulden and Giles Taylor (her Aussie doctor) and myself sat > around to the wee small hours of the morning - well what are we going > to do with the rest of our lives? > > I pass this on to gliding people as until the last VHS club video dies > in 20 years time we will see Lucy learning to fly or promoting our > sport on those rainy days. Many people from around the world replied > back to me and I urge you to email Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucy's > mum Ann lives separately but sure it will get passed on. I > particularly noticed how many of those that sent on their kind > thoughts also had lost a son or daughter and would now feel for Gavin. > > I now have a regret that I did not chat to Lucy a little more when she > was around as she was a real special girl. > > Ian McPhee > Box 657 Byron Bay NSW 2481 Australia > Tel +61 (0)2 66 847 642 Mob +61 (0)428 847 642 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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