Stefan Hienzsch
The Graymore Family has been my second family – or as Danny’s mother Kay would put it, spare family – since I first came to see them in Ashburton as a visiting teenager from Germany in 1983. During that most splendid thanksgiving celebration for Danny’s remarkable life at St. Paul’s, and later on at St Bartholomew’s, it was wonderful to listen to so many passionate tributes to a mature and very wise son, brother, husband, father, uncle, colleague and friend. Whilst Danny and I met only rarely as adults – mainly at great Graymore family events, both very happy ones and very sad ones throughout the years – our friendship was one which, as many people found with Danny, would immediately connect in the very same way we left it years before. And, indeed, we went back many years: In 1983, 40 years ago almost to the day, I first came to beautiful, ancient 62 East Street in Ashburton to see and stay with the lovely Graymore family. I travelled from London by coach, and Kay and at least Danny (if not more of them…) picked me up at Newton Abbot station in the tiniest Fiat campervan you can …
- March 26, 2023
- 4:40 pm