Rodney and Keith

Life even at it’s best can be very fragile and fickle as we recently found out. We humans, for all of our own arrogance and self beliefs do not have any control of life itself which can be taken from us in the blink of an eye.

Over this Christmas period, one of our Austin Pond Society Board Members, a young fellow of 35, passed away after a very short illness. Two weeks ago, he and his Partner Rodney who is also a Board Member, attended a Christmas Party at the APS President’s house. Keith was not quite his normal cheerful self putting it down to a bout of the flu which had caused him to miss the last Board meeting.

A week later, his Partner called to inform us that Keith was in the hospital and the day after Christmas, Keith passed away. He will be missed in many ways. He was always cheerful and never had a bad word to say about anyone. He was helpful wherever he could be and very talented as he could manipulate the programs on his computer far better than most. He also had the fastest thumbs I have ever seen on the tiny keyboard of his smartphone. Our sympathies are with his Partner, Rodney that he leaves behind who being the older of the two exclaimed, “It is not fair. It should be the other way around. Keith was supposed to look after me as we grew old together.”

Unfortunately, no one ever said that life was fair.

Rest in Peace Keith. You will be missed. Rodney, you have our condolences.

Written 12/27/2017