Other Friends/Family Of Mine... That's Left Us... Background music:-"We'll Meet Again" Please turn it down softly... Annie Eilleen BESSESEN (nee O'Connor)...My Grandmother...(Born:- 2nd Nov.1906-Died:-2nd Nov.1929 )She died after a long illness (tuberculosis) and left behind Granddad, my Uncle Harold aged 4 and my Mother Colleen aged 2yrs...Never got to meet you Grandma but I will one day as well as our new Aunty or Uncle whom you were carrying for 3 mths within you when you went away...I can say I love you, for through you, you also gave me life and my ability to grant you 6 great-grand children...xoxoxoxox CARL ANTHONY BESSESEN...(Born:- 12th August,1899-Died:- 30th June 1969)...Went on to the next world after suffering from emphesema for years...I still remember, all the stories you told us of your war times and the concentration camp you were in...The time you were stabbed in the hand when you saved a woman from death by a Turkish soldier...I still remember, the times Uncle Harold would play his accordian after our get-togethers in your room and we would sing along or just sit and listen...often I would look over at you and see the tears in your eyes/the rememberance of times gone by...I still remember, how you loved Debbie's and my voices...you would call us in at times to ask us to sing your two favourite songs..."The Carnival Is Over" and "Adelweiss"...My Norweigen Granddad...your my hero... JULIE SKINNER...(Cairns, 1974)...My friend from Badmanton...that's a game version basically of men's cricket...Julie loved horses and of course had her own, whom I met and patted and rode myself on her parent's property...Well, one day she went riding...something happened...who knows...but she fell off and hit her head...then she was gone...Julie was 13 yrs old when she went... PAUL KENDALL...Son of a Paster...Hit whilst riding home from work at a servo on the Esplanade, Cairns...by drunken juveniles...The driver, a brother of one which, come from the same school he went to...He was just 14...1975... DEBBIE KELSO...(mid 1970's)...Left us when she was 17 yrs old and 3 mths pregnant...by asthma... She died on the way to the hospital...Her last words were to her mother-in-law-to-be, was..."GOD help me............." ROSLYN GROGAN...(mid 1970's)..."T" intersection crash...Her last words were before going into theatre were, "Don't worry, I feel fine, just look after the others."...She didnt know they were all dead and sweet Roslyn didnt make it through the surgry.........She was 16 yrs old........ KELLY BUCKLER...and her little niece ? BUTLER...(mid 1970's)...whom she HAD to look after MANY MANY times...They died after the car which they were in (going swimming to Freshwater)...hit the rail line and flew into the air and ditched into a ground gully...The car exploded into flames...The little niece of Kelly's survived a wee time, saying she felt hot and was burning up (my cousin was driving by...and tried to help and stopped only to hear these words...by the way, she still cries over these words)...Kelly was 17 and her niece was 4 or 5 yrs old...Kelly's boyfriend died, 17, as did at least another two...ALL DEAD... WAYNE GREPPO...(mid 1970's)...Same place nearly as where Kelly went away...just past it...His car slid out, hit a ditch and went nearly into a caravan park...He was 17 or 18 yrs old...beautiful kid/friend from school days... CATHERINE MAXWELL...My fiance's mother...died 1977 from heart attack after going to the doctors three times complaining about chest pains...The last visit was a week before she left this world...The doc never took her complaints as serious, nor did he refer her to another doctor...She actually was never a doctor person (like me!!!) and Steve, her son, had to drag her there for treatment...He was the one who went to visit her but instead found her half on the step and half in her doorway...dead...Later Steve went to the doctor accusing him of being the one who killed his mother, by not taking any notice or concern, or doing any tests etc on her...Of course the doctor denied it!!!...Steve doens't like talking about his Muma, as it brings back the thoughts of finding her on what was supposed to have been a "special" day..."Christmas Eve"...and he was only 24yrs old then... MARTIN WELSH...(1975)...As you can guess, Martin was Welsh; over here in Aussieland for holiday...bought a motorbike and had my cousin on it...The same day he bought the bike, on the night, three girls were driving with no lights on, JUST for the FUN of it!!!...and hit into them...The bike having a fibreglass fuel tank, exploded on impact...Martin died instantly, flown at least 20 metres down the road...Michael, well...say no more there...but he did survive...Martin was 18 or 19...My cousin the same age there abouts... PAULY PORT...(1975)...A person didnt give way at the lights...resulting in his death...He was on his way to work...His motorbike went through the back passenger side door...He was decapitated...He was in his mid 20's...Went to see him in the morgue...To see his toe with the tag on was enough for me when the fridge door was opened...I went hysterical then ran off... BILLY SADDLER...(late 1970's)...At a "T" intersection...ANOTHER never gave right of way...smash!!!!!!...He begged the ambulance NOT to take his helmet off...BUT they did...and his head fell apart literally...He was mid 20's in age...PLUS he was/is a beautiful soul...May your spirit live long and free...as you were here Billy!!!!!!!!!! CAROLYN (nee COULSON)...(late 1970's)...My step-sister...died in her 30's from cancer...She left behind, her son, aged 2 and her daughter, aged 6mths and her hubby, Ken...She begged the doctors to give her an injection so she didnt have to suffer anymore...but alas, they weren't allowed to do that...My step-father was there holding her hand and heard her last breath and then sigh as she left this world for the next...The first time Dad cried........ DAVID EDWARD JASPERSON (Born:- May 25th, 1933)...My natural father...He just got out of hospital and his car broke down on a corner farther down the road...a semi truck turned the corner and hit him when he had his bonnet up and checking the engine...but the truckie kept going so I was told by my Aunty Mary (his sister)...Dad was in a coma for 2 hours...he never regained consciousness...then he went on to the next world on the 16th May,1979......He was 45 yrs old... PATRICK...(mid 1980's)...also of Alice Springs was killed about a week after getting his motorbike...He was about 20 yrs old and just loved his little bro and used to love to hold my babes when I saw him at different work functions...The song by The Pet Shop Boys, "It's A Sin", reminds me of you Patrick...Blessed be young one... ERNIE...(went away 1988)...He came to Alice Springs; where I come from before here (Tasmania)...He also come from Innisfail, near Cairns (plus had a sis in Cairns), from whence I first was...The day he got his motor bike..he died that night...just about decapitated after hitting a road sign post...only 28 yrs old...No One wanted to know you...but I did...We got along sooooo well!!!!!...MISS YA SWEET ONE!!!...You made me laugh/cry and wonder about other's feelings and where they were wanting to go in life...YOU made me think...AND you reminded me of Pauly...Your in MY HEART ERNIE and you shall be always...JUST wondering if you eat raw steak still where you are???...*smiles*... LAURIE RAINBIRD (1990)...a sweet friend who was killed when going back to his mining camp...He was asleep in the back of the car while his other two mates where in front...All had too much to drink and the driver lost control of the car and it rolled and rolled, near flattening the car...all trapped inside dead...Laurie was about 37 years old...and I never found out till a year later...GREAT SHOCK!!!...No wonder I hadnt heard from him for such a long time...See ya soon matey...lubs ya!!! GEORGIE PERKS (went away early 1990's)...my cousin was riding his motorbike and was hit by a car...He left behind his wife and two young children...He was 23 yrs old...Will see you one day soon honey...luv your cousin Kim...xoxoxox... BRUCE COULSON...my stepfather...died of cancer on Dec.12th, 1991...Real hard to see someone you love passing on...One morning a nurse said this is the time for him to go...I couldnt for the hell of it stop crying...Many thoughts and memories ran through mine mind...He actually went that night at 11:21pm...nearly an hour after I left his side.I had been sitting there with him the past two days...no sleep...and none after for two nights...I believe he didnt die...well not his soul anyways...YOUR still here Dad!!!...And I love ya!!! JOHN BARBER...My first husband...died Mt.Isa Mines...Brakes failed on the big jumbo machine (where the wheels are as high as the door ways or more)...The machine and John went at least 60 meters down a pit...machine banging the sides of the shaft as it banged its way downnnnnnnnnnn...John fell out...machine landed on him...and exploded...John went to the next world...He was 39 yrs old when that happened on June 4th, 1997...I know your here but in another dimension...We'll all be there with you soon...{{{{{HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS}}}}}...Dont forget!!! DARREN BIGGINS...The son of my friends Lynne and David...Darren basically grew up with my two eldest kids when we lived in Alice Springs...They eventually moved to Rockhampton here in Aussieland and he got married and had a baby daughter...He was coming home that night after he finished off one of his jobs out of town...only he didnt make it...He was a builder like his Dad, and was on top of an old roof of a factory which he was repairing with new roofing iron when it collapsed...He fell between 20 to 30ft and landed on the concrete floor...He was on a life support machine for a wee time until the doctors said he wouldnt survive without it and also had too much fluid on his brain...So David and Lynne decided to let him go...He was their one and only son, and child, and was just 27 when he went in June 1998...May Jehovah bless Darren, his wife and child, and his parents... WAYNE LONG...my cousin...died Dec.12th 1997...Suicided at the age of 27 yrs by hanging himself...Life just dragged him down, yet he tried soooooo hard to please all and to keep on top of things...I will always remember you as our little Wayne...You were much loved baby...and your Mum (Aunty Olive) told me that your favourite saying was the same as mine "Such Is Life" and that you loved Ned Kelly too!!!...Seems we have alot in common yer Mum says...Blessed be to you babes and to your children!!!...LUV YA!!!...{{{{HUGSSSSS}}}}}... HAROLD CARL BESSESEN...(Born:- Sept.1st,1925...Died:- Aug.10th August 1999) from a long illness and stroke...He and I got along the best out of all his nieces and nephews...I was his "honey lamb", as he nicknamed me...We had such great fun when he'd come up to visit us in Cairns... MICHAEL HAWKES...my eldest son, Jason's friend (Jamie)'s bro...died 1999 from an accidental overdose of heroin...He was found the next day by a friend in an alley way...the day he was due to go back home to his Mum in Alice Springs...He was 20 yrs old...I remember the times you would come over and the times I'd give you and Jamie a lift back home...Sweet one, your still with us... EBONY...Born 1st August, 1985 to 26th Sept, 2000...A beautiful gift given to me in mine arms...at just 6-8 wks old she was...Black as black, my baby puppy was...*smiles*...but a pitbull terrior attacked her many years ago...Ebony developed a cancerous tumour in her mouth...which ate half her face off...(the right side of her)...She wasnt in pain...so I hang on to her until I saw her losing weight, didn't eat much and slept most of the days...also she began to lose her balance and hearing, even her sight in the right eye...I truely wanted to hold on to her but couldn't handle how this thing was tearing and eating away at my Ebbs...so I called the vet to come here to make her sleep...(in mine arms)...just as she was given unto me...many years ago...only this time she didn't stay awake, as she was given,...she eventually slept, in the end...peacefully...My sweet sweet Ebony You know...I know...I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!...See you soon my babe...Mummy xoxoxoxoxoxoxox...I will put you on the front homepage as soon as I get my act together me sweet...*smiles*...We'll meet again, don't know where , dont when, but I know we'll meet again, some sunny day... Havent rememebered all yet...be back soon...Tiers... Last updated July 4th, 2000.