Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

I don't remember much about my grandfather except his loving kindness. He would recite my multiplication times table with me, which is how i remember 6 x 6 = 36!

He used to tease me and say he was an alien and his blood was blue. We lived so deep in the southern highlands we couldn't get proper TV reception, so every time he visited he would buy the latest and grandest outside antenna, then spend his whole time trying to improve the TV reception. It would always befuddle him why it never worked but he never stopped trying.

He had a lotto system that he played religiously, and had a notebook with all the past winning numbers since he started playing it.

He bought me a Michelangelo teenage mutant ninja turtle and would give my brother and I money. One time he had a $5 note in one hand and change in the other, he gave my brother first choice and he chose the $5 note, leaving me the change. I was upset because my brother got the note but my grandfather told me to count the coins. When I did there turned out to be $7 there, so I was very happy.

One day dad got a phone call informing him that my grandfather had suffered a stroke while mining for tin or copper. We got to the Atherton Hospital and found that he was unable to talk. He could only communicate through squeezing my hand. Granddad died 5 days later, even though the day before he died he had got out of bed and walked to the toilet. We were contacted by a nurse from the Atherton Hospital early the next morning to inform us that he had passed away.

He was alone and without family by his side when he passed, even though we rushed to be by his side. I feel it was in vein for what he sacrificed in his life he deserved at least to have his family by his side when he passed.

He had a dawn funeral and they had bagpipes playing, and that is every memory I have of Arthur George Hines. - Posted by his grandson, Lucas George Larry Hines, first born son of Rex Arthur Hines, who was the first born son of Arthur George Hines.