Where first Mum went to school...
Joel, Dad and Uncle Donald on the way up to first Mum's first home in Megan - confused much?!
Emma, Brooke and Kelly Wilko on the same hill!
My darling Granddad was diagnosed with cancer three weeks before I was due to hit Sydney for my Dec 08 trip. At first it didn't look that serious, but then as more tests were done it become increasingly so. After a couple of days in Sydney immediately after I got here (attending two different weddings - photos to come!), I, along with Brooke and Emma (in the same car) and Mark and Chloe (in convoy) headed up to the family farm in Dorrigo to see Granddad. We were able to spend a few days with him (Joel and Kelly headed up from Hawks Nest to join us) as a family which was great. Not that he wanted for visitors - at 80+ with two wives and healthy farm sized families there were plenty of visitors! Granddad passed away the day after we left to return to Sydney, quietly with family by his side.
We were in Dorrigo the following week for the funeral - here are some snaps from the country life. It was sad, he was an amazing man (until a week or so before he passed he was still running his large farm, driving the tractors and keeping tabs on his 200 head of beef cattle) and had provided a link to my first Mum, his eldest daughter, who passed away over 20 years ago. I didn't know this, but Granddad was a Mason and the final rites at his gravesite ended with “So Mote It Be”.
We were in Dorrigo the following week for the funeral - here are some snaps from the country life. It was sad, he was an amazing man (until a week or so before he passed he was still running his large farm, driving the tractors and keeping tabs on his 200 head of beef cattle) and had provided a link to my first Mum, his eldest daughter, who passed away over 20 years ago. I didn't know this, but Granddad was a Mason and the final rites at his gravesite ended with “So Mote It Be”.
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