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Scottie


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It is with great sadness that we have to inform everyone of the passing of our good friend from Australia, Julia Ward on 2/9/06. A friend of hers wrote to a member with the sad news. She died peacefully at home. I did not know Julia long, compared with some of you, but considered her a good friend. She was funny, direct, outspoken , but above all , a loyal and true friend to Bob Geldof for many years. She would defend him to the ends of the earth. The most fitting tribute, I think, comes from Bob himself, from the song The Soft Soil.


Let the soil be your soft pillow
The grassy blanket keep you warm
Let the leafy branches cool you
And the blue sky keep you from all harm
Let the wind keep fresh your memory
Let it blow across the land
Let the rain refresh your spirit
Let the damp earth hold your hand
Your breath will still be breathing softly
In a night time filled with stars
Drifting like a dream in sleep
Softly beating in you heart.


 I am sure many of you will have memories or messages which you may want to put here.


Hippy Angel



-- Edited by Scottie at 18:25, 2006-09-17

-- Edited by Scottie at 18:30, 2006-09-17

-- Edited by Scottie at 07:00, 2006-09-18

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What very sad news. Julia had posted here just the day before she passed away. We'll remember her as a very passionate woman, who never hesitated to say what she had on her mind.


You will be missed Julia.


 



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I'm shocked to hear that... Even though you don't really know someone, don't know what she looks like or what her voice sounds like, it's amzing to know you'll miss a person. It shows that the internet doesn't have to be all that impersonal after all.


I'll miss your postings with your signature, "I'm gonna be like... me!". Thanks for always saying what you felt was true, Julia! And for adding your intelligent ideas and views.



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RIP



We will all miss you.

-- Edited by rekamakovics at 22:04, 2006-09-17

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RIP yes julia we will miss you and your postings god bless xxx

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That's really sad news.  Although I don't think I had ever communicated with Julia direct I always enjoyed reading her posts.  My thoughts are with her family and friends.

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Still too shocked for words.

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Didnt communicate with her ever,but my thoughts are with her family. Very sad news

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I am not sure that words can express what I am feeling right now.


I first went on the forums/message boards in 2002 just after I had seen Bob in Oxford and had been posting 2 or 3 months when Julia approached me to ask me to correspond with her.  I was really pleased as I really enjoyed reading her posts.  They were always interesting, well thought out and beautifully written.  As the months and years passed by we got to know each other really well, and although we never met, we became close and felt a connection.  We discovered much in common apart from Bob Geldof, but he was a good starting point, and as seems a good ending point.  In the old forum we could choose our rat name and she became Balla Rat, after the place she lived near Melbourne.  I always called her Balla Rat.  I chose hippy angel in my email address and she referred to me hippy angel.


I always found her to be straightforward, genuine, supportive, funny, sensitive, kind, thoughtful, interesting and intelligent.


We had talked about meeting up in 2007 if she could get herself together to come over to the UK.  That will never happen, the unanswered emails from her to me and me to her will never be responded to.  Everything has stopped.  She became a special friend, even without meeting and we both acknowledged that.


For Julia the song ´Friends for Life´is perhaps a good choice for me.


Please don´t ask about her death, I would like to respect her privacy and friendship by not discussing the details.  She did die peacefully.


To Julia with love...



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I can't believe it...this is very sad news...my thoughts are with her family-RIP


"Will you defeat them, your demons, and all the non believers, the plans that they have made?" Because one day I leave you,
A phantom to lead you in the summer,
To join the black parade."
Though your dead and gone believe me Your memory will carry on
Carry on
We'll carry on
And in my heart I cant contain it
The anthem wont explain it.




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RIP -Julia-our thoughts are with her family

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I haven't been able to log on this week so was very sad to read about Julia. I always enjoyed her posts. Her family are in my thoughts...


RIP Julia



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