Eric Fetzer contd. from pg.10

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 3, 16 June 1987, Page 14

Eric Fetzer contd. from pg.10

He served with the Ohakune Volunteer Fire Brigade for 17 years, he was a member of the Ohakune Primary School committee for 21 years and he was a Borough councillor from 19.66 to 1968. He was also a member of Lions for a number of years and was frequently involved in fund-raising activities for a variety of worthwhile causes including the construction of the Ohakune Swimming Baths, a project to which he donated a lot of time and machinery. He was also closely involved with the Pioneer Club and was its president for a number of years. He is remembered by former colleagues and friends with warmth and affection ... as well as his dry wit and fearsome driving! Of his three surviving children (one died in childhood) only his son Mike still lives in Ohakune. His other son Bryan lives in Australia and his daughter Kerry resides in Auckland. Until he entered the Waimarino Hospital in January during his last illness he continued to live in the Tawhero Road house which he first occupied in 1939 when he left the family home in Lakes Road. In recent years he has shared this home with his son and daughter-in-law Mike and Lynn and their four children. At his funeral in Ohakune yesterday the Ohakune Volunteer Fire Brigade provided pallbearers and all the support services including speeches by present and past fire brigade chiefs who paid tribute to their former colleague and friend, Eric Louis Fetzer.