Stories
Lendl Oosthuizen
“Mum hugged me and said, ‘Your dad has gone to heaven’.”
Lendl Oosthuizen’s family moved from Zimbabwe to New Zealand in 2003. Settling in Hawke’s Bay, a year and a half later everything changed again for the sixteen-year-old when her father was killed in a car crash.
Kat Schwarzkopf
“If my Papa had lived, I probably would have learned to fly an aeroplane!”
Kat Schwarz’s father died suddenly when he fell through a roof. Kat thinks of her Papa, and his love for aviation, whenever she sees a small plane in flight.