The 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.
What a beautiful warm and thoroughly lovely lady . There is only that one special person who comes into your life that you are all the better for meeting them, and that was Topsy. Will miss our conversation and her positive attitude. Rest in peace Topsy and condolences to her family.
Kathy from Baptcare
My sincere sympathies to all of Topsy’s family. Topsy was a wonderful supportive neighbour and we enjoyed a few vino’s over the years and many fabulous philosophical chats on life, love and everything in between.
I loved Topsy’s robustness, her groundedness, and positive outlook on life, and her down to earth humour.
We received many a lemon from her wonderful tree in Mornington and sometimes she would tuck them under our hedge for us and we would find them later and have a laugh.
She lent me a few self help books over the years and was a firm believer in a positive growth mindset and accepting life’s challenges with grace and humility.
Topsy was incredibly supportive, warm and generous to me during the pandemic. I will never forget that. She is a treasure and will be greatly missed.
The ceremony was beautiful for a beautiful person… Thank you.
Much love to Topsy and well wishes to you all…
Elly and Bec xx
Thank you Castelow family for sharing. A most beautiful service for an inspirational woman. Lots of love to you all.
My sincere sympathies to all of Topsy’s family. Topsy was a wonderful supportive neighbour and we enjoyed a few vino’s over the years and many fabulous philosophical chats on life, love and everything in between.
I loved Topsy’s robustness, her groundedness, and positive outlook on life, and her down to earth humour.
We received many a lemon from her wonderful tree in Mornington and sometimes she would tuck them under our hedge for us and we would find them later and have a laugh.
She lent me a few self help books over the years and was a firm believer in a positive growth mindset and accepting life’s challenges with grace and humility.
Topsy was incredibly supportive, warm and generous to me during the pandemic. I will never forget that. She is a treasure and will be greatly missed.
The ceremony was beautiful for a beautiful person… Thank you.
Much love to Topsy and well wishes to you all…
Elly and Bec xx
Thank you for the opportunity to share in your lovely tributes to my beautiful friend Topsy. Our lives paralleled each others in events and timelines so that she dubbed us the Merry Widows! It was my great good fortune to share many beautiful hours with this generously giving, thoughtful, funny and unselfishly loving person who greatly enriched my life.
May you all be richly blessed with strength and comfort as you adjust to this massive hole in your lives.
Take care
Lorraine Higgins
Thinking of you all as you say your farewells to Topsy.
Such a beautiful service to say goodbye and I know she would be so proud of all your love and strength at this sad time.
So many wonderful memories of days gone by in Lower Templestowe.
May your special memories of Topsy give you all so many more reasons to smile than shed tears.
Sending love xx
Karen, Paul & Robert Schneeberger
Therese and I watched the beautiful service from Chicago. Such a sad occasion, but also lovely to hear about Topsy and her life, old times in Lower Templestowe, and to see Sue, John, and Simon. Our condolences to all the family.
My sincere condolences to all the family. Watching the ceremony and photo tributes from my office in Sydney brought back so many memories from when I was young and the many times I would visit the Convenience Store in Randwick and the family home in Perouse Rd with my mum Dolly, Nellies sister and Topsy’s aunty.
Thank you also to Belinda Jane for the production so that the many people could also be there on the day
Hello Castelow family, So wonderful to view the Service of darling Topsy and to listen and see her family. Golly, you have all grown up so quickly. Many wonderful memories of the past and lots more to remember as we go thru the comments here and in the service.
Our love to you all and know that Topsy would have loved to be there with you.
Thanks to Karen for setting all of this up.
Maxine and David xxxxx
Words cannot express how I feel now watching Topsy’s life unfold. You all did a magnificent job for her service, she would be very proud of you all. I’m just so sorry I couldn’t be there.
I’m sure I’ll never meet another person that could compare to Topsy, she had an incredible way with people and you couldn’t help but love her. Her generosity of spirit never failed her, even when she was tired and sick she couldn’t stop helping people. I will miss her terribly as we used to talk on the phone nearly every day and she always knew of something new that was out there to help someone medically or physically, she was just an amazing woman.
To all Topsy’s family my heart goes out to you all.
All our love Gai & Georgia. ❤️( Gai one of the op shop girls)
A wonderful warm and generous send off for your beloved mother, grandmother and friend. My heart is full for all of you. When I think of Topsy I will always remember her big smile. Sending much love.
Inspirational women, a beautiful service, thankyou for sharing
Our sincere condolences to Topsey’s family. It was a beautiful tribute to an incredible and caring lady, we are so glad to have had the chance to get to know her and call her our neighbour and friend. She will be deeply missed.
What a beautiful service to honour Topsy. It was all very special – the words, music, and incredible photo and video tribute. You should all be very proud. Topsy was an incredible woman – kind, inspiring and funny. Thinking of you all at this difficult time. Vale Topsy, a life so well lived.
What an absolutely beautiful send-off for your beloved Topsy. So many wonderful memories shared. Thinking of you today and always. Amanda xxx
Sincere condolences from the Bryson family. All the best, Topsy was a wonderful lady and will be sadly missed.
We will miss Tospy very much. We enjoyed visiting Topsy a few times with our mum, Shari. She was a beautiful lady who enjoyed life.
A wonderful lady who will be sadly missed by family and friends. She was always there to help out people in need and changed the lives of many.
Sincere sympathies from Charles and Ann Emerton – Charles has known Topsy almost his whole life, and Ann for the past 50-plus years. Topsy was always a kind and generous relative and friend to us and our two sons. We’re going to miss our election nights together.