BRUCE, Marian Alicia

Marian Alicia BRUCE (nee Lawson)

April 15, 1927 – July 12, 2006

Beloved daughter, sister,wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, lawyer and altogether

WISE WOMAN.

Daughter of Jess and John, sister of Gordon, Rodney and their wives Mary and Geraldine, wife of Malcolm, daughter-in-law of Robert and Gladys, mother of Eleanor and her husband Kerry, Claire, Rosemary, Alistair and his wife Jenny, grandmother of Brigid, Patrick, Timothy, James and Natalie, aunt to Gillian, Val,
Pru, Fiona, John, Kim and Xanthe.

Lawyer and Associate for many years at Smithers, Warren and Tobias, later Phillips Fox.

Part-time archaeologist and latin scholar, walking encyclopaedia for her children
and grandchildren, great reader, historian and opera buff, inveterate gardener (“I never thought it would grow that big!!!”), needlewoman, SMH crossword puzzler and obit. reader (hope you like this, ma!!) and so much more.

We love you ma and will miss you to the end of our days.

!!!…the journey doesn`t end here. Death is just another path – one
that we all must take…the curtain of this world rolls back
and all turns to silver glass and then you will see it…white shores
and beyond, a far green country into a swift sunrise!!!