Re: [CH] Tony Flynn
Ted Wagner (trwagner1@yahoo.com)
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
I do not recall... which year did he make it out to OF?
Ted
----- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Irvine <dougandmarie@shaw.ca>
> To: Jim <jim@wildpepper.com>
> Cc: chile heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Sent: Tue, October 27, 2009 10:00:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [CH] Tony Flynn
>
> Jim wrote:
> > It is with a heavy heart that I report that Tony Flynn, LONG time member of
> the list, has passed away. You might recall him as "Retired, Grandad, Bay
> O'Plenty". He met many folks on his visit here.
> >
> > The world is a better place for there once walked within,
> > beloved by chileheads and fishermen,
> > the likes of which there hasn't been,
> > a gentleman named Mr Tony Flynn.
> >
> Rest in Peace, old friend. You have now joined your beloved wife.
>
> A lot of the old timers on the list got to know Tony and his love of hot
> peppers, and he and I were back and forth a lot over the years. He was within a
> couple of years of me, two if I remember so he would have been 81.
> He was born in England, and was one of the children sent off to Australia,
> Canada, New Zealand, during the dark days of World War Two when England was
> besieged by the Nazis and it was believed that there would be an invasion. Then
> of course, the Japanese made a mistake, and hit Pearl Harbour, and the USA came
> into the war to join the rest of the Free World which had been fighting since
> September 1939.
> My one major regret is that I was unable to go to Open Fields the year that Tony
> was there.
>
> Indeed, as Jonathan wrote, He will be missed.
>
> Doug Irvine on an Island in the Pacific