Mark Elvyn Smylie

28 June 1954 - 1 June 2016

Invitation

Marion, Hamish, Kate and the family would like to thank

you for being with them today

and for the kind thoughts and support received.

Following the service, you are warmly invited to gather with

them in the adjoining lounge for light refreshments

and further sharing of memories.

You are then welcome to accompany Mark

to Awa Tapu Cemetery, Valley Road, Paraparaumu

where he will be laid to rest.

The family will then meet at the “Woodshed”

Kapiti Lights to toast Mark’s memory.

With Love We Remember

Kapiti Coast Funeral Home Chapel, Paraparaumu on Thursday 9 June 2016 at 1.00pm

Officiating: Bill Carter

Welcome & Introduction

Eulogy

Family Tributes

George Hough

Hamish Smylie

Open Tributes

Final Tribute

Kate Smylie

Reflection Music

“See You Again”

Charlie Puth

Verse

“A Pilot’s Prayer

Recessional Music

“How Great Thou Art”

Sir Howard Morrison

HIGH FLIGHT

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air...

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark or even eagle flew --

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee (jnr)