Memorial Service For Robin Heather Thursday

By Ben Meisner

The memorial service for Robin Heather (photo centre) goes Thursday at 4pm at the Westwood Mennonite Church at 2658 Ospika Blvd.

I am writing Robins’ obit this way because had I started it in any other fashion, I’m sure he would appear to chew me out. "What have you got to say Meisner?  Then say it and get the hell out of here” that was Robin Heather, he truly was what a Prince George resident is all about.

I talked briefly with Peter Warner seeking more info on the obit for Robin and he again spelled it all out. Robin Heather was one of us, pure and simple, what you saw is what you got and a lot of people, especially in the court room who thought they had just been matched up with a bush bunny from PG learned the hard way. He was a pleasure to watch at his trade.

Robin died the way he lived, sitting in front of the TV relaxing, he couldn’t have gone any other way it just wasn’t like Heather to do that.

Now what about him?  Well you may not have known he was the son of a Vancouver furrier, worked as a fisherman, oil rig worker, pipe fitter, construction , slaughter house worker, and as Warner puts it ,"good training for his later legal trial work".

Sound like a guy we like to say is one of us?  Read on. He started out in the Vancouver law firm of Fulton, Cummings, Richards, Underhill and Bird. "Fulton" you say, well he was the federal cabinet minister that gave Robin those Tory leanings.

They sent him to PG to open an office and surprise, surprise he teamed up with Dave Jenkins and Murray Sadler to start their own practice .He could be safely called the "father" to a good many judges and lawyers who worked their way through that office.  He was a father figure to them, he left behind a lot of sons and daughters.

Now what was Heather all about?  Well when it wasn’t fashionable to be a duck hunter, he was, a fisherman as well ,  but most of all he was one of the 77,000 people who make up this town, just one of the guys.

Could he scare the hell out of you in the court room?  You betcha ! That was Heather, but the fact that he was on the international board of directors for Ducks Unlimited showed he wore his heart for God’s creatures on his sleeve. I’ll miss Heather, but most of this entire town will miss him because he stood for what we are all about.

Good hunting and fishing Robin.

I’m Meisner

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