I am Darren's Auntie Pat and knew him from the day he was born - 2 months before our 2nd daughter. We had some good family gatherings when he was young and always spent Christmas together.
Darren helped us when we had a party at the local tennis club for our eldest daughters 21st birthday, he was indispensable, hard working and willing. Darren was very intelligent, a thinker, but also was very skilled in a practical way, he could turn his hand to anything. When we lived in Wellington in recent years I met him for a coffee sometimes and we talked politics, usually for well over an hour.
I was working on the 14th floor of a building in Wellington about 8 years ago and I looked out of the window and there was Darren abseiling up the building. Another time he was in the lift which was crowded and I didn't recognize him at first as he had his cap on and it was pulled right down. I asked him why he wore a cap all the time and he said because he was losing his hair, that came from the Yates side of the family I said. I suppose it was hard for him as he had beautiful hair as a child.
We think of him often.
I am Darren's Auntie Pat and knew him from the day he was born - 2 months before our 2nd daughter. We had some good family gatherings when he was young and always spent Christmas together.
Darren helped us when we had a party at the local tennis club for our eldest daughters 21st birthday, he was indispensable, hard working and willing. Darren was very intelligent, a thinker, but also was very skilled in a practical way, he could turn his hand to anything. When we lived in Wellington in recent years I met him for a coffee sometimes and we talked politics, usually for well over an hour.
I was working on the 14th floor of a building in Wellington about 8 years ago and I looked out of the window and there was Darren abseiling up the building. Another time he was in the lift which was crowded and I didn't recognize him at first as he had his cap on and it was pulled right down. I asked him why he wore a cap all the time and he said because he was losing his hair, that came from the Yates side of the family I said. I suppose it was hard for him as he had beautiful hair as a child.
We think of him often.
