<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Thanks Brenda</div><div>Very true words.</div><div><br></div><div>We both loved the Scots, and I know he loved his visits.</div><div>Geoff was a highly professional, calm, logical and funny seriously smart man.</div><div>I was drawn to him as a network assistant when Rex asked me change shifts and work with the new Australian network director!!</div><div>I said no at first, and Rex politely reminded me that this as not a request!</div><div>In that year of sitting next to him on the noon to midnight shifts I really got to know him, and had tremendous admiration for the way he worked, a born leader without any affectations or patronisation. And yes, he cut the Bullxxxx like a hot knife through butter!</div><div>Vale Geoff!</div><div><br></div><div>Sue </div><div><div><div><br></div><div style="margin: 0px 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px; ">Sue Howard</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px; ">1/19 Olympia Road | Naremburn, NSW 2065 Australia</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px; ">M: 0431 966 570 | E:susan.howard18@bigpond.com</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Pres <<a href="mailto:pres-bounces@tech-ops.co.uk">pres-bounces@tech-ops.co.uk</a>> on behalf of Brenda Gould via Pres <<a href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Brenda Gould <<a href="mailto:brendaannegould@gmail.com">brendaannegould@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, 7 August 2020 at 11:26 pm<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Warwick Cross <<a href="mailto:wmx@btopenworld.com">wmx@btopenworld.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> <<a href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Pres] Geoff Howard<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Warwick and Sue<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Such very sad news about dearest Geoff.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have many fond happy memories of Geoff. He would always call me wee Bren with his lovely smile and was one of the calmest directors in Network. I enjoyed hearing about his lovely trips to Scotland, especially his West Coast train trip.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It has been so very sad reading about Geoff’s poor health over the years since returning home, but still he proved to be his determined self, moving to a very smart retirement home. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can still hear his lovely voice and cheeky laugh. Yes Warwick, a true loss.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thoughts are with you, Sue and Holly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brenda (Innes)</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Aug 2020, at 09:40, Warwick Cross via Pres <<a href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk" class="">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" class=""><meta name="Generator" content="MS Exchange Server version 08.00.0681.000" class=""><title class="">Geoff Howard</title><div class=""><!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">Good mo</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">rning all.</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">I write bearing sad news.</font></span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">Sue Howard (ne้ Bird) has been</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">in</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> touch to let us know that Geof</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">f Howard passed away</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">yesterday morning at 11.30 am (Sydney time). Geoff had been on a complicated medical journey over the past</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> few years and died</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">in his</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">relatively</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> new home at the Belrose Country Club</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">from a stroke whilst waiting for a taxi to take him to dialysis.</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> No</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">funeral</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> date has yet been set.</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">We have lost</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">a good friend and</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> <font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">one of the best voices to ever grace BBC output. A</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""> true loss.</font></span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">Sue is a member of this email group.</font></span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class="">I hope and trust you are all keeping safe and well.</font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#632423" size="2" face="Segoe Print" class=""></font></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""> </span></div><div dir="LTR" class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><b class=""></b></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><b class=""></b></span><b class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span></b><b class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font color="#008080" size="4" face="Monotype Corsiva" class="">Warwick</font></span></b><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><span lang="en-gb" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""> </font></span></div><div class=""><span lang="en-gb" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>
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