Sad news, Olive Riley, the 108 year old blogger from Australia I’ve talked about here, died today.
I can’t seem to get her blog, The Life of Riley to load right now, but I read it on the RSS feed, and here’s a story about her death.
Godspeed, Olive.
Parents to the left of me, children to the right, here I am.
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6 opinions for Olive Riley, 108 year old blogger dies
Rhea
Jul 13, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I was reading her blog for a while. Sad to hear of her death.
susie
Jul 14, 2008 at 10:59 am
am sorry for your lost keep prayer’s are with her family god bless your family
Keri
Jul 14, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Sorry to lose this awesome blogger. I loved Olive’s updates!
mike rubbo
Jul 27, 2008 at 4:34 am
Hi Ekizabeth, you should be able to see Illie,s blog now. The traffice has thinned out a bit and it’s not crashing so much.
If you do take a look, you’ll find that Ollie was irresistable. I can attest to that, having spent may hundreds of hours with her, recording her, filming her, and just hanging out.
There is a big hole in my life now.
mike rubbo
Jul 27, 2008 at 4:38 am
Elizabeth, I meant to leave you a long comment, but it got nipped. Here’s the rest.
You know, I thought she’d make 110.
When we were shooting her movie, (All about Olive) in Broken Hill in 2004, I saw one day, some newly planed olive trees.
I asked the guy watering them when they’d bear fruit and he guessed in 2010.
“Ollie,” I cried, we gotta come back for that, those first olive’s should be tasted by you!”
Alas it was not to be. Sadly too the interest she’d begun to take in the huge wind farm to be built near her beloved Broken Hill, wont come to anything either.
I thought it was the ultimately amazing thing that here, she was, 108, and she’s worried about global warming and whether wind can be part of the solution.
“You’ve got have her on the payroll,” I told the folks at Epuron, the company building the wind farm, and I think they were almost convinced I was right.
Mike her helper
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