Sad news - Occurred to me some of you may not have heard the news of
Everything Linux Founder Anthony Rumble passing away over the weekend.
Details copied below from announcements made on SLUG, OSIA and LA lists.
Grant and Simon - The LUV committee would like to express our
condolences on behalf of the membership of Linux Users of Victoria, many
of whom have been customers of elx over the years.
I remember Anthony making OSIA t-shirts on the spot for those of us on
the stand at LinuxWorldExpo a few years back, and selling me a couple of
extra t-shirts at cost because I liked them so much.
Whilst I did not know him well at all, I am quite sure he will be very
sorely missed.
And Grant - best wishes for a speedy recovery from your surgery.
No flowers please. There will be envelopes for donations to the
Epilepsy Association of Australia at the funeral.
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From: Grant Parnell <gripz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2009/5/10
Subject: Anthony Rumble
Many of you have known Anthony Rumble from EverythingLinux over
the
years. Anthony has in the past made a huge contribution to the
Sydney Linux Community and Linux in general in terms of
promoting it to businesses and hobbyists through both the store,
the website and for many years before, through SLUG, indeed he
was involved with SLUG from it's humble beginning. Many of the
older members of SLUG and AUUG know Anthony as a friend too.
To all his friends out there it is with deep regret that I must
announce that on the evening of Friday the 8th of May my best,
closest friend has died as a result of an accident at home.
Myself and Sarah (my flatmate and good friend to us) and Anthony
had just had a fantastic dinner at a Lebanese restaurant in
Lakemba and finished off with some tea at his home and we left
about 9:30pm and everyone was in good spirits and well
satisfied. We believe he took a shower and slipped and hit his
head resulting in a quick death but we're still waiting on the
word from the coroner.
Anthony is survived by his lovely daughter Abigail who's only 8
years old (who was at her mother's place), brother Simon (also
on SLUG), parents Chris and Ray and a whole bunch of friends who
will sorely miss him. His girlfriend of the past few years,
Rosetta, who found him Saturday morning, Sarah and Myself were
particularly close to him. I'm sure he has many, many more
friends from the past and other circles who may receive this
email.
We are unsure at this stage when a memorial service will be held
but all will be welcome and we guess it'll be some time maybe
after the 18th of May. I will unfortunately be recovering from
surgery to remove my oesophagus tumour on the 15th of May until
about the first week of June at the very least. You might
therefore be updated with the where and when bits from Simon
Rumble instead.
Oh gawd this is hard but here goes with the send button.
