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Portrait of Wayne Charles McKenzie
Wayne Charles McKenzie

Wayne Charles McKenzie

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January 21, 1949 – December 28, 2018
Lived 69 years
Griffith Cemetery · Griffith, New South Wales
“I keep in my heart the love of the past, for there it was planted forever to last.” “Your presence I miss, your memory I treasure, loving you always, forgetting you never.” “Always a smile, instead of a frown, always a hand, when one is down. Always true, thoughtful and kind, wonderful memories she left behind.”
Life story

Gone Fishing

I’ve finished life’s chores assigned to me,

So put me on a boat headed out to sea.

Please send along my fishing pole

For I’ve been invited to the fishin’ hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,

To fill your heart with every wish.

Don’t worry, or feel sad for me,

I’m fishin’ with the Master of the sea.

We will miss each other for awhile,

But you will come and bring your smile.

That won’t be long you will see,

Till we’re together you and me.

To all of those that think of me,

Be happy as I go out to sea.

If others wonder why I’m missin’

Just tell ’em I’ve gone fishin’

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1949
Born January 21
1956
Wayne was 7 when the Summer Olympics opened in Melbourne
1962
Wayne was 13 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1973
Wayne was 24 when the Sydney Opera House opened
1989
Wayne was 40 when the Berlin Wall fell
1991
Wayne was 42 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2000
Wayne was 51 when the Summer Olympics opened in Sydney
2013
Wayne was 64 when Nelson Mandela died
2018
Passed away December 28, age 69
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