Miss you uncle Richard, hope there’s still plenty of coke up there and you didn’t drink it all
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.
Tributes
Leave a tributeMiss you uncle Richard, hope there’s still plenty of coke up there and you didn’t drink it all
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)
Loving memories,
Carolyn
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
Love
Jen
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.
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
no one else can heal.
But your love leaves memories
no one can steal.
May the winds of heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear
How much i miss you and wish that you were here.xxx
Soft soul gentle man
Voyaging now ever more
Leaving us behind.
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
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
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)
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
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
Leave a Tribute
Miss you uncle Richard, hope there’s still plenty of coke up there and you didn’t drink it all
Fantastic memories
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.
memories
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