Ross MILNE Obituary

1.11.1945 – 4.7.2024

A warrior. A soldier.
A mighty tōtara has fallen in the forest of Tāne.
Kua hinga te tōtara i te wao nui a Tāne.

Your journey, my love, does not end here.
"The end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

As we plant anew, we honour the enduring rhythm of life,
the soil holds both memory and hope -a beginning.
We carry you forward-in earth, in roots, in memory, in love

"…some time beyond place, or
place beyond time, no
mind left to

say anything at all,
that face gone, now.
Into the company of love
it all returns." - Robert Creeley

The LWs – (Christine and Charlotte)