A timber home surrounded by a flourishing garden

Pam
Shand

Pam reading with a cat asleep on her lap
Pam smiling with her arm around a family member
Pam reading on a sofa with a family member and dog
Pam standing in a leafy garden

There will be an informal memorial service for Pam on the 27th of September in Peka Peka (Kāpiti Coast).

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If you have any memories or photos of your time with Pam, we would love to see them.

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Memories

It's kind of impossible to pick a single memory, a single image, a single story. I will remember Pam for over-stuffing tacos. For loving the dogs. For always asking such good questions. For wanting to move to Peka Peka so she could be a part of the intergenerational conversations around the big table. For her beloved garden, and for how furious she was the bunnies for eating it. For the number of exclamations marks she used, with such enthusiasm, in her emails. For the sound of the laundry door closing, knowing it was a Pam. And even now, sometimes I find myself hearing the laundry door being closed and I think 'Oh it's just Pam'. How I wish it was just Pam. (Photo, Christmas at Peka Peka, 2017)

Tink (Pam's daughter in law)

When I think of Pam, the picture that comes up is this kind of shrewd, funny, knowing, playful? look that she would do. I don't have a word to describe it, but it was very cool :-D

Chad