July
2011 MAGAZINE
In Memory of our Loving Son Stephen Carbine (aged 33) nd
Stephen died tragically in the early hours of the 22 May 2011 in a road accident, the service of which took st place at Agia Kyriaki Church in Polis on 31 May 2011. Stephen is now laid to rest in the cemetery opposite the main school in Polis. Stephen was always a free spirit and dreamed of travel, his first trip away from home at the age of 17 was to South Africa to stay with some relatives . He was in South Africa for approximately 6 months and that was the start of his travelling. He did the normal holidays with friends and worked various jobs but in the Spring of 2000 he started his journey of life. He was in Prague, Czech Republic, when he met the group of friends who would always be constants in his life. From Prague he went to the Canary Islands, then Amsterdam always working wherever he could. It was in Amsterdam that he was introduced to the culinary world and got his first job as a chef.
From here he travelled to Edinburgh where he met Beatrice, who he told me “was the best thing that ever happened to him�, they eventually returned back to Beatrice's home town in Grenoble in France and settled down. He then became a very proud father to Thomas who is now 2 years old. During this period we visited him in most destinations where he showed us the sights and on occasions he came home for short periods. Stephen was in Cyprus for nearly 12 months and we were grateful that we could spend time with him in his last year of life. Brian & Rammy joined him and were great friends to him, also working in the Polis area. We would like to thank all our friends and relatives and Stephen's friends all around the world for being part of his life, his extended family in France and the new friends he met here in Cyprus and especially Beatrice for enhancing Stephen's life and giving us a beautiful grandson, Thomas. Also we would like to thank the community here in Cyprus. We will never be able to thank people enough for the support given to all our family at this sad time. We had regular meals delivered, offers of lifts, offers of accommodation, regular visits, sympathy cards, telephone calls, texts, e mails and lots of hugs. We had a collection in lieu of flowers for Thomas's trust fund which at present stands at 1300 euros. Thank you so much for your generosity. We will never forget the care and kindness of all our friends and relatives, but especially the community in this part of Cyprus. We have only been resident here for just under two years and cannot believe the care and compassion of the small community with a big heart, which we feel very much a part of.
Gillian & David Carbine
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