Streaming of Funeral Service
After watching the service online, if you can leave a guest message to let the family know you have joined into the service, that would be greatly appreciated.
This service will have a password applied once edited, you will then need to contact the family for the password to access.
Following the service, the footage will be posted and you can watch at a later time if you were unable to watch at the time of the service.
Thank you so much for enabling us to join in the Celebration of Murray’s life, despite being in England. The four Littlejohns stayed with my parents, Jean (nee Gordon) and Ken Goodman in November 1972 in Somerset, and I visited Patsy & Murray in the family home in Camberwell, but this recording brought out so much more of how our “frog man” cousin in Australia lived his life. Thank you.
I loved Murray’s ability towards the end of a lecture to seamlessly transition into a stream of technical words that were absolutely nonsensical. All with a deadpan straight face. Perhaps the funniest part was seeing so many students assiduously writing it all down!
The humility of both Murray and Patsy was hallmark of these delightful, supremely talented people.
Hullo Andrew and Tim, We want to pass on our sincere condolences on you fathers passing. I remember your father as the Mr. Gadget man with always the latest camera or tape recorder. He was held in great esteem around here in Corowa Landcare circles as the discovery of the Sloane froglet man. In fact he is regarded here as frog royalty . They even call people who look for the Sloane froglet as ‘Sloane Champions’. [There are some around Corowa.] However I think he would say it was Patsy`s discovery as well.. He always struck me as a very modest man who shone in his own specialty. Unfortunately the live streaming ran out after 60 minutes but I think we saw the main parts. Go well, David and Val
What a wonderful memorial service, Andrew and Tim.
I chuckled, I laughed and I shed tears hearing all those stories, memories and accolades.
Farewell Uncle Murray, you certainly left your mark. May your legacy continue.
I think Murray found me a pretty irritating (and slow) student, but never said so, and always kept me thinking.
A true scientist . ” The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.”
Terrific service, amazing man.
I remember the visits from Murray and Patsy to Busselton, WA.
On one trip, Murray was searching for hybrid frogs between the frogs on the top of the Witcher range and those on the lowlands. He came home at about 10 pm on a winters night, highly excited because he had found the hybrids he expected, and I think he had managed to record the frog call of the hybrids. He was highly excited and of course we had celebrate with a drink.
A fitting and wonderful memorial to Murray. I particularly remember his sense of humour and his attention to detail as well as his insights into evolutionary biology.
Great guy, great field work together in central Victoria – me with my leg in plaster hip to ankle. J Dale Roberts, University of zWwestern Australia
Murray was the very definition of a scholar and a gentlemen. An amazing man, with an incredible legacy in Australian herpetology. My sincere condolences to Murray’s family and friends.
Geoffrey Heard
Australian National University and University of Queensland
I too regret that I cannot come to the memorial. Murray was a treasued collegue. He was loved and admired. His influence was broad. For me, it begain before I knew him, my honours supervisor was one of his students. As a graduate student, I found him generous in time and conversation. As a staff member, I enjoyed time I spent with Murray. Generally, though I was the ‘expert’ he generally knew more than me on any technical computer issue; especially with respect to digitisation. I loved him for how he could not help but laugh at his own jokes. Try as he might to suppress it. I love him for his unrequited passion for Vanilla Slices. I hope his field records on the slices are lodged for posterity in the state archives. I loved him for the reaction and stories that would arise when I mentioned his name. He will be missed.
Garry Jolley-Rogers
Patsy and Murray were lovely people and a part of my extended family.