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This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Richard Longshaw, 57, born on July 5, 1954 and passed away on March 31, 2012. We will love and remember him forever.

A big man with a giant heart. Richard was an extremely honest and loyal man who never wavered from his beliefs and values. Once he befriended anyone he was their friend for life no matter the circumstances. 

Richard also had a wicked sense of humour, and his dry wit and irony are one of the things I miss most about him.
 
Richard had a great love and appreciation for nature and for life in all it's forms. He not only "stopped and smelt the roses' but he also watched and marveled at the creatures on the roses.

Remembrance
(Author unknown)

Remembrance is a golden chain
Death tries to break,but all in vain.
To have, to love, and then to part
Is the greatest sorrow of one's heart.
The years may wipe out many things
But some they wipe out never.
Like memories of those happy times
When we were together.



 

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Anna Leese
April 1
April 1
Hey Uncle! Our sweet cat Sasha passed away this week, hopefully you and Stefano recognise her and give her some cuddles- she wasn’t a German shepherd but she may as well have been for her character!

Miss you uncle Richard, hope there’s still plenty of coke up there and you didn’t drink it all
Diane Longshaw
October 15, 2022
October 15, 2022
I WALKED

I walked with you today, I took the longer way.
I made some time to tell you all the things I didn’t say.
I spoke to you so softly and so often tears just flowed.
I let you know my secrets, the stories you were owed.
I gave you all my heart, as we walked the pretty way.
I cared not for my timings or the schedule of my day.
Instead I lingered back, picking flowers for my hair.
I showed you our old tree but this time I stopped and stared.
I walked with you today, I took the wilder path.
I reminded you of all the times your antics made me laugh.
I stopped to smell the roses, as I should have done before.
I seized that special moment and I wished and wished for more.
I walked with you today love and with all my aching heart.
I wish that I had not left it too late in life to start…
To start taking the long route, saying things I never say.
I’m sorry that it took me far too long to walk this way.

)Donna Ashworth)
Diane Longshaw
January 1, 2022
January 1, 2022
❤❤❤ it's the 9th New Year without you by my side my love and I wish you were here. Love you always xxx
Diane Longshaw
July 5, 2021
July 5, 2021
Happy 67th birthday my love. I so wish you were here. I will love you always xxx
carolyn leese
July 7, 2020
July 7, 2020
Happy Birthday, Dear Richard.
Loving memories,
Carolyn
Diane Longshaw
July 5, 2020
July 5, 2020
Happy 66th birthday Bub. Miss you so much love you always xxx
Diane Longshaw
March 31, 2020
March 31, 2020
When life seems a blur,
And I can't quite believe
That I'm living without you
And you were taken from me,

I sit back and think
Of the memories we shared,
All the laughs that you gave me
And the times that you cared.

'Til death do us part.
That's true in our case.
I miss you so much,
Your voice and your face.

Time is a healer.
I can't say that it's true,
But life does go on,
Which means without you.

When it all gets too much
And I wish you were here,
I feel thankful that I met you
And I hold you close, my dear.

'Til death do us part.
That's true in our case.
I miss you so much,
Your voice and your face.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/til-death-do-us-part-2
Diane Longshaw
July 8, 2019
July 8, 2019
Happy 65th birthday bub. I wish you were here to share it with me. I love you and continue to miss you so very much. Always xxx
Diane Longshaw
May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019
Missing you so much bub. Seven years and it still hurts like it was yesterday. Always xxx
Diane Longshaw
April 1, 2019
April 1, 2019
I nearly missed you I'm so sorry . You were in my thoughts all day as you always are and always in my heart. I love you. Missing you so much this year darl darl I wish you were here. LOVE YOU ALWAYS xxx
Anna Leese
July 5, 2018
July 5, 2018
Happy birthday uncle Richard. Wish you could have met Matteo. He loves tomato sauce too xox
Mekhaela Cher
July 5, 2018
July 5, 2018
I met you through your gorgeous sister Jen, and I always remember you as a kind, gentle soul. RIP Richard. Much love Jen, xx
Diane Longshaw
July 5, 2018
July 5, 2018
Happy Birthday. I miss you more on on your special day because i cant be with you. Love you xxx
Jen Longshaw
March 31, 2018
March 31, 2018
I wish you were here right now Richie. Doesn't get any easier.
Dave Hosegood
February 8, 2018
February 8, 2018
Hi Rich been thinking about you quite a bit over last few months today i looked out on the paddocks and realised that one of our dreams was slowly coming to fruition. (You would love it)
The apricot tree in the garden has spawned some thirty eight trees here . and soon fifty more.
I call it your orchard
had a few tough months and i really wanted you to be around man i miss you. You would have been good to mull things over with but alas that was not to be, only in my dreams. At least i still have them and your there.
Diane Longshaw
July 5, 2017
July 5, 2017
Your birthday has come around again and I wish i could share it with you. Miss you so much.Always in my heart xxx
Dave Hosegood
March 31, 2017
March 31, 2017
Richard
I miss you heaps man been lots a times recently when i have really wanted to have you around to talk too in person
still talk to you in my dreams we still discuss about problems somtimes wonder if its you thats keeping me sane or is that insane probably the later LOL
Yes probably is i do really miss you Rich
Diane Longshaw
March 31, 2017
March 31, 2017
Love leaves a broken heart
no one else can heal.
But your love leaves memories
no one can steal.
Diane Longshaw
March 31, 2017
March 31, 2017
Still missed so very much. Thank you for being at my side when times were hard or scary or tricky and every other time i needed you.I will always love you Richard xxx I miss you
Diane Longshaw
July 6, 2016
July 6, 2016
Happy Birthday Bub
May the winds of heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear
How much i miss you and wish that you were here.xxx
Jen Longshaw
March 31, 2016
March 31, 2016
I miss you Richie. Keep killing flies in the hope you'll come back and haunt me. Jenxxx
Diane Longshaw
March 19, 2016
March 19, 2016
Thank you for teaching me how to turn problems into adventures. i am a more chilled person because you loved me. i still miss you so much xxx
Jen Longshaw
July 5, 2015
July 5, 2015
Dear Richie missing you today.

Soft soul gentle man
Voyaging now ever more
Leaving us behind.
Diane Longshaw
July 4, 2015
July 4, 2015
Oh bub i miss you so much. Happy 61st birthday my darling Richard.

If memories bring us closer then we are never far apart
for you are always in my thoughts and forever in my heart..
I’ve lost my life’s companion, a life linked with my own,
You’re still mine to remember, a husband proud to be my own..
Many a tear I’ve shed since I lost you,Many more will continue to fall,
You took my happiness with you,The happiest hours of all.
Love you forever xxxxxx
Diane Longshaw
April 2, 2015
April 2, 2015
I MISS YOU SO MUCH. It has been three years but you are my first thoughts every morning and my last thoughts every night. When you left a part of me went with you. I have come to realize that I will never get it back. i will Love you ALWAYS.
Dave Hosegood
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
Another mate year surley it has not been three it seems like It was only yesterday
Still we talk in on our Dreams
We still have those debates wished you could stay though
But alas It's not to be so ou are missed by many and all
carolyn leese
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
Saw someone who looked just like you in the street this week-what a shock it gave me and evoked sad memories
Debbie Melling
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
Gone but not forgotten. Rest in peace Rich. Lots love Tony & Debbie
Diane Longshaw
October 7, 2014
October 7, 2014
I miss your comfort and humour. You could always make me see the sunshine through the cloud and darkness. Some days are just harder than others without you. Love you bub xxx
carolyn leese
July 5, 2014
July 5, 2014
Happy 60th Birthday Rich. Missing you and thankful for your life. Walk tall out there xoxo
Jen Longshaw
July 4, 2014
July 4, 2014
Happy 60th dear Richie. Miss you more each day. Love, Jen
Diane Longshaw
July 4, 2014
July 4, 2014
Happy Birthday bub I wish you were here so we could celebrate your 60th together. I miss you so much xxxx
Diane Longshaw
July 2, 2014
July 2, 2014
Time does not bring relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, 'There is no memory of him here!'
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.


Edna St Vincent Millay (1892 -1950)
carolyn leese
March 31, 2014
March 31, 2014
Rest in Peace..Richard.
I suppose you are wondering if I will arrive up there one day with a computer under my arm needing to be fixed?
Watch over Diane, xo
Jen Longshaw
March 30, 2014
March 30, 2014
Not a day goes by Richie when you aren't missed. Wish I could be even half as accepting of all the stupid in the world as you were. Or half as patient.
Diane Longshaw
March 30, 2014
March 30, 2014
Richard it's two years today and I love and miss you more than ever.

You always waited for me,
Anxious, if I were late,
In winter at the window,
In summer by the gate,

Although I laugh and seem carefree,
And make no outward show,
What it meant to lose you
No one will ever know.

Love you bub xxx
Diane Longshaw
February 17, 2014
February 17, 2014
Richard, I miss you so much. Once again i am sleepless aching for just a glimpse of you, I try to be strong but the nights are so tough without you.You were always there for me and believed in me.and that gives me the strength to get through the days, but the nights are still bad. I love you Bub. xxxxxxx
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August 11, 2018
by Brent Bennett

My name is Brent Bennett and have lived in Australia for the last 40 years.In my early years in Napier as a teenager I used to hang around with Richard,jumping in his Mk 1 Zephyr and sharing many wonderful early years experiences.Richard was such a great fun loving guy to be around and it is through Richard these wonderful experiences i shared with him have stayed with me forever and I truly would love to thank Richard for these.I am saddened time past I lost contact with Richard but will forever be grateful that I met Richard. 

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December 4, 2012
by DAVID HOSEGOOD

Richard

You have and always will be my friend you are so missed.

Even more so when I have some of those hairbrained schemes , we would talk about and disuss at lenght in to the we hours of the night or when we would go fishing or just having coffee at your place .

About how to reinvent things , how to put the world to right , thise wierd what if scenerios these are the things I miss the laughter the tears the mistakes the good the not so good.

They are all memories I cherish and hold dearly.

I will always remember you now as the physical being is not present dosen,t mean you are not there

You are are in my dreams and thoughts and somtimes in the dead quite when I am deep in thought pondering some of those hairbrained schemes

I hear you discussing it in the back of my mind saying try this try that 

Forget you never!!  your with me always

D

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