Comments on: She’s gone http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/ Olive Riley is 108, she lives near Sydney, Australia Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rosie http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-10327 Rosie Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:06:03 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-10327 I thought I would check in on Ollie and found the sad news. I have her on my site as an example that potentially everything is possible and age is not a hinderance if you choose it not to be. She is still an example of living life to the fullest and remaining feisty! Bless her. I thought I would check in on Ollie and found the sad news. I have her on my site as an example that potentially everything is possible and age is not a hinderance if you choose it not to be. She is still an example of living life to the fullest and remaining feisty!

Bless her.

]]> By: pitercentre http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-10175 pitercentre Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:13:37 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-10175 Thanks for your efforts to record all Olive's life Thanks for your efforts to record all Olive’s life

]]> By: Dominique http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-10171 Dominique Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:51:07 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-10171 Olive, I miss you so much. From Paris with love. Dominique Olive, I miss you so much.
From Paris with love.

Dominique

]]> By: Barbara Sears http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-10162 Barbara Sears Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:11:10 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-10162 Dear Mike: I hadn't checked Ollie's blog for a while, but mysteriously woke up thinking about her the other day. I am very sad to hear of her passing. Thanks to you for helping bring such a wonderful, lively, and engaged person into all our lives. She is a lesson to us all, and we will miss her. Barbara Dear Mike:
I hadn’t checked Ollie’s blog for a while, but mysteriously woke up thinking about her the other day. I am very sad to hear of her passing. Thanks to you for helping bring such a wonderful, lively, and engaged person into all our lives. She is a lesson to us all, and we will miss her.

Barbara

]]> By: John, UK. http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-9954 John, UK. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:24:26 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-9954 I discovered this blog a while ago, completely out of the blue. I was completely fascinated by it, and immediately read through all the posts i had been missing in my ignorance. I checked this website perhaps twice weekly, to ensure I didn't miss a post. The last time, before now, I checked this website was July 12th 2008, with no updates. I left on a school trip to Peru on the 13th arriving back on the 6th of August and only now realised - whilst flicking through my favourites - i had not checked. Please forgive me for forgetting. The recent updates took some time to sink in, and I am unsure if I can still quite believe it. It's insane how connected you can feel to something and someone so very far away. Aged 17, I am so different to Ollie, but felt a deep connection and sentimentality when I thought of her. I cried when I read of her passing, and am proud to say I did. Rest in Peace, Ollie. You cannot comprehend how deeply you will be missed. I discovered this blog a while ago, completely out of the blue. I was completely fascinated by it, and immediately read through all the posts i had been missing in my ignorance. I checked this website perhaps twice weekly, to ensure I didn’t miss a post.

The last time, before now, I checked this website was July 12th 2008, with no updates. I left on a school trip to Peru on the 13th arriving back on the 6th of August and only now realised - whilst flicking through my favourites - i had not checked. Please forgive me for forgetting.

The recent updates took some time to sink in, and I am unsure if I can still quite believe it. It’s insane how connected you can feel to something and someone so very far away. Aged 17, I am so different to Ollie, but felt a deep connection and sentimentality when I thought of her. I cried when I read of her passing, and am proud to say I did.

Rest in Peace, Ollie. You cannot comprehend how deeply you will be missed.

]]> By: Pat Winter http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-9796 Pat Winter Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:18:12 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-9796 Mike, I am sorry to hear that Olive has passed. You have allowed many of us to met a unique woman,and I thank you for that.I feel like I "knew" Olive through you. I loved how you shared her stories with us as she dictated them,and how she was fortunate to have kept her faculties. Amazing. She will be missed. Goodbye Olive. My condolences, Pat Winter Indiana USA Mike, I am sorry to hear that Olive has passed. You have allowed many of us to met a unique woman,and I thank you for that.I feel like I “knew” Olive through you. I loved how you shared her stories with us as she dictated them,and how she was fortunate to have kept her faculties. Amazing. She will be missed. Goodbye Olive.
My condolences,
Pat Winter
Indiana USA

]]> By: nico http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-9351 nico Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:56:31 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-9351 me dio mucha tristeza realmente la muerte de olive, y si bien no conocia su historia me emociono realmente mi mas sentido pesame nico desde argentina me dio mucha tristeza realmente la muerte de olive, y si bien no conocia su historia me emociono realmente
mi mas sentido pesame

nico desde argentina

]]> By: Lyn F. http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-8656 Lyn F. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:01:42 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-8656 Hi Mike, I just learnt of Olive's passing, and I am so very sorry to hear of it, it seems so sudden. It's been wonderful reading all about Olive and her stories, such a rich treasure trove for future generations to appreciate. Thanks for your efforts to record all that. Also, this was a very nice tribute to a remarkable lady. May Olive rest in peace ... Hi Mike, I just learnt of Olive’s passing, and I am so very sorry to hear of it, it seems so sudden.

It’s been wonderful reading all about Olive and her stories, such a rich treasure trove for future generations to appreciate. Thanks for your efforts to record all that.

Also, this was a very nice tribute to a remarkable lady. May Olive rest in peace …

]]> By: Jane http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-8525 Jane Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:36:29 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-8525 Thank you for tis wonderful blog.......I have only just discovered this today.....How truly beautiful and inspiring this lovely lady was.I'm sad I didn't discover this blog before today so that I may have conversed with her...From what I have read so far she certainly was a grand lady...... May she RIP and thank you Mike and Katya, condolences to you and Ollie's family and friends Jane Western Australia xxx Thank you for tis wonderful blog…….I have only just discovered this today…..How truly beautiful and inspiring this lovely lady was.I’m sad I didn’t discover this blog before today so that I may have conversed with her…From what I have read so far she certainly was a grand lady……
May she RIP and thank you Mike and Katya, condolences to you and Ollie’s family and friends
Jane Western Australia
xxx

]]> By: Tracy http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/2008/07/13/1311/#comment-8427 Tracy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:42:32 +0000 http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/?p=1311#comment-8427 Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you for such a beautiful love filled blob. You and dear Ollie made magic together and that magic will always carry on in my heart and the hearts of so many others. Seeing her sweet happy face, I just wanted to reach through the screen and hug her :) Alas I have been very busy with my own life and my dear mom passing away at 89 in March, so what a shock to come here today and read this. But with the wonderful events that have unfolded in my life since my dear moms passing, well I must say that I do believe her and dads spirits have been with me, as i believe dear Ollies spirit is with you and the rest of her family/friends. God bless you always, may the sun shine on your back and the road ahead be full of joy and laughter Thank-you, Tracy from Victoria BC Canada Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you for such a beautiful love filled blob. You and dear Ollie made magic together and that magic will always carry on in my heart and the hearts of so many others. Seeing her sweet happy face, I just wanted to reach through the screen and hug her :)

Alas I have been very busy with my own life and my dear mom passing away at 89 in March, so what a shock to come here today and read this. But with the wonderful events that have unfolded in my life since my dear moms passing, well I must say that I do believe her and dads spirits have been with me, as i believe dear Ollies spirit is with you and the rest of her family/friends.

God bless you always, may the sun shine on your back and the road ahead be full of joy and laughter

Thank-you,

Tracy from Victoria BC Canada

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