---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Grant Parnell <[email protected]> Date: 2009/5/10 Subject: Anthony Rumble
Many of you have known Anthony Rumble from EverythingLinux over the years. Anthony has in the past made a huge contribution to the Sydney Linux Community and Linux in general in terms of promoting it to businesses and hobbyists through both the store, the website and for many years before, through SLUG, indeed he was involved with SLUG from it's humble beginning. Many of the older members of SLUG and AUUG know Anthony as a friend too. To all his friends out there it is with deep regret that I must announce that on the evening of Friday the 8th of May my best, closest friend has died as a result of an accident at home. Myself and Sarah (my flatmate and good friend to us) and Anthony had just had a fantastic dinner at a Lebanese restaurant in Lakemba and finished off with some tea at his home and we left about 9:30pm and everyone was in good spirits and well satisfied. We believe he took a shower and slipped and hit his head resulting in a quick death but we're still waiting on the word from the coroner. Anthony is survived by his lovely daughter Abigail who's only 8 years old (who was at her mother's place), brother Simon (also on SLUG), parents Chris and Ray and a whole bunch of friends who will sorely miss him. His girlfriend of the past few years, Rosetta, who found him Saturday morning, Sarah and Myself were particularly close to him. I'm sure he has many, many more friends from the past and other circles who may receive this email. We are unsure at this stage when a memorial service will be held but all will be welcome and we guess it'll be some time maybe after the 18th of May. I will unfortunately be recovering from surgery to remove my oesophagus tumour on the 15th of May until about the first week of June at the very least. You might therefore be updated with the where and when bits from Simon Rumble instead. Oh gawd this is hard but here goes with the send button. ---<GRiP>--- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
