Memorial to Tanya Burr, killed 15 September 2002

Aged thirteen to fifteen years

Heading off with great trepidation (as she didn't know any other kids there except her older cousins) to her first day at high school - Freyberg High School. Within 48 hours she had been warmly accepted by the dregs of the school, had taken up smoking (which she previously detested) and was heading into trouble. Whakarongo School, which is a highly regarded, rural school which then had some 80 pupils, does not present its pupils with the type of urban culture that a rather naive Tanya immediately met at Freyberg. Thereafter, she became good at learning a number of things the hard way.

Tanya's first plane flight. Pictured just after disembarking at Palmerston North Airport from a joyride around Manawatu in May 1995. Her second plane flight was en route to Europe.

Below: Tanya and (perhaps) our former jet black tom cat Joseph. Either way, he liked our place and someone else fed him!!!! In 1996, on our front terrace.