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Note: Born as Hilary Joseph Bernard MASON. Changed name by Deed Poll. See KING File MUIR Family and Friends of the late Mr John Bernard Muir of Busselton are invited to attend his Funeral Service to be held in the Bantry Chapel, Busselton Funeral Centre, 105 Bussell Highway, Busselton commencing at 11am FRIDAY (24.12.2010). A Private Cremation will follow. No flowers by request. ***** With his music she told me to tell you that when he was young he had a beautiful voice operatic. A famous operatic singer from wellington heard him sing at a school and approached nan and offered to train him for free!!!! mum said his voice was beautiful. She wanted me to share this with you I presume you probably already know this. Mum said he could have been famous he was so talented and he told her he did love Australia. Also she said the day the two of them wagged school in christchurch and spent the day going up and down the esculator in that big famous shop that burnt down balentine?? something like that she said we had a ball. Mum reminded him of that and he said oh shit thats right I had forgotten all about that and they had a good ol lol!!.. ~~~~~ Nan was good at putting them all into homes uncle david and uncle minty went into the salvation army home. .... Nan was in and out of prison for a little while and mum would stay at St Marys in wgtn..or St Brendons upper hutt Mum said in the weekend that one time uncle minty and grandad accused your dad of stealing money out of nan's wallet he said he didn't and mum said he didn't. So this night they beat him up the two of them (uncle minty 10 years your dads senior and grandad) and then grandad said he had to go into a home because he could not be trusted -mum was devastated.. So that week he was put into a home in Levin at the age of mum thinks 10-11 until he was 16 then he came back home for awhile. While he was in Levin nan went to prison for stealing something so mum had to stay with the Sexton's in waterloo. She so missed your dad she asked if she could go and see him she said she would have been 13 -14 so it was arranged she got the train from waterloo and was met at Levin they spent the whole day together then when it was time to catch the train home mum and your dad sat in a paddock and talked until the train went so they could spend more time together mum said it was funny but she and him got into big trouble and she had to stay the night up their and wasn't allowed there again! Mum spent alot of time with the nuns which did not impress her she stayed in most of the catholic homes around wgtn and upper hutt and she had to board their as nan and grandad spent alot of time in boarding houses in wgtn not having a home of their own until they got naenae when mum was about 9 -info from Erin Taylor Smith - her mum Lorna is dads sister. *****
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