“Firefighters never die. They just burn forever in the hearts of those loved ones they left behind and the people whose lives they saved.” Cambridge would have made Don Gerrand proud last Saturday. Hundreds of…
“Firefighters never die. They just burn forever in the hearts of those loved ones they left behind and the people whose lives they saved.” Cambridge would have made Don Gerrand proud last Saturday. Hundreds of…
The Waipā community will give Cambridge fire chief Don Gerrand a huge send off on Saturday with a street parade and a service at the Town Hall. Don died in Waikato Hospital on Monday following…
Editor, writer and manuscript consultant Stephen Stratford was so well known in the Cambridge cafés he frequented that before he had sat down, his favourite short black coffee had already been delivered to the table….
Obituary: Louise Clark 1949-2021 By Natalie Akoorie An advocate of children’s literature who was once the pretty girl in the Hogsnort Rupert song of the same name, has died. Louise Clark died at home with her…
At his 60th birthday party, Gordon Grigg raised a glass to a life he described as a tapestry… vibrant with colour, sometimes stormy, filled with contentment, a loving family and lots of mirth and merriment. He…
Iza McVeigh, a fastidious wordsmith with a ‘knack for inappropriate timing’, slipped from this life on July 28 … 77 years to the day from when she arrived in this world as Iza Bisset in…
ALFRED ‘ALF’ KNEEBONE – April 27, 1923 – May 11, 2021 Among the qualities that made Alf Kneebone a legend in his time was his sharp wit, his sense of humanity, and the attention to…
A tough start in life did little to dent the generous nature that characterised Peter Downie. It didn’t stop him from putting down family roots and winning plaudits for the work he did for Cambridge over seven decades. Peter died at his Leamington home earlier this month. The weeks…
Richard Stowers – 11.11.1951 – 20.04.2021 New Zealand lost one of its foremost historians with the passing of Waikato’s Richard Stowers. A titan in terms of his knowledge around military history, the former Cambridge High…
Faith was front and centre of Margaret Vosper’s life. It steeled her against tragedy, became her family’s life-blood and was a beacon for decades spent serving others. Stephanie Vosper, one of her three surviving children,…
