tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post7507270205548616216..comments2019-10-21T15:56:29.321+13:00Comments on The Kiwifolk Blog: Sam SampsonMike Moroneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15703129652815202956noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-50577664363672718382009-12-19T23:38:17.491+13:002009-12-19T23:38:17.491+13:00Sorry to hear of Sam's passing almost a year a...Sorry to hear of Sam's passing almost a year after the event. Sam and I only ever corresponded online. He used some software I wrote to help create his web sites, fired some questions at me and once we discovered we were both from Oban (although I originated in the Scottish one) a bond was stuck. I was to have been one of the stopping places for the bottle of whisky he planned to send round the world.<br /><br />I fondly remember the photo he sent via email of himself dressed as Santa raising a glass... I think that's how I started the new Millenium. I still have it somewhere, several computers later.<br /><br />A true character, sorry to hear he's gone. He will be remembered by all that met him (even virtually)Jafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04106927659658074281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-27026792689586608952009-02-09T01:17:00.000+13:002009-02-09T01:17:00.000+13:00Oldtimer's disease has struck again! Sigh - anyway...Oldtimer's disease has struck again! Sigh - anyway I've corrected the web link here.<BR/><BR/>To add to Sam's story. At one time I was working on a dairy/vegetable (tomatoes and murphies) farm just out of Blenheim. Sam was in the area too, living in a caravan. I think he may have been teaching at a local school – I'm not sure about this, it was a long time ago – but I do know that he was also monitoring water quality in the local creeks and rivers, running around looking scientific and putting electronic probes into the water twice a day. He had an intense interest in natural history and the sciences.<BR/><BR/>I was pleasantly surprised when I got that email from him, but not that he was living on Rakiura, Stewart Island and Sam were made for each other - the Stewart Island I knew back in the 60s, at least.<BR/><BR/>Frank PovahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-23000592258309547832009-02-08T03:12:00.000+13:002009-02-08T03:12:00.000+13:00I'm just getting my own Blog together and I came a...I'm just getting my own Blog together and I came across this. I knew and admired Sam, we were alike in many ways, yet so different in others: Sam had far more patience than I did at the time I knew him. The last I heard from him was an out-of-the-blue email from Stewart (where I also lived at one time) and it lifted my spirits so much to know that he still thought of me. We're leaving one by one, we old timers, but the messages left here make me think that perhaps we DID accomplish a few things. See you there, Sam me old china. Frank Povah - the Paddimelon's BlogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-75544697918934992982009-01-11T22:34:00.000+13:002009-01-11T22:34:00.000+13:00What a shock to stumble accross the news that cous...What a shock to stumble accross the news that cousin Sam has passed away, I will always remember my last meeting with him 2 years ago when Jean and i were in Invercargill I met Sam at the clinic had my photo taken with him and drove him to the hospital for treatment. We spoke about the farm at Sentry Hill and about people who should be huntered out and added to the Sampson Family Tree <BR/>RIP<BR/>Cousin ColinSamnakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640196699702976718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-76169775142570852082008-12-24T22:50:00.000+13:002008-12-24T22:50:00.000+13:00My name is Mark Heppleston. I am Sam's only Ne...My name is Mark Heppleston. I am Sam's only Nephew. I live in Sydney, but on hearing the news that Sam had incurable cancer, or as I knew him.. "Uncle Charlie"... last year, went for my first trip to Stewart Island to see him after nearly two decades. My mother and my now wife Melanie also traveled to see him and he took us on his final tour of the Island. Stunning, peaceful and perhaps the nicest place on earth.<BR/><BR/>Although we'd never been close in distance, I was always proud of Uncle Charlie's love for nature and creatures, which I in turn have inherited. He never wanted to visit Auckland where I grew up very much as the city scared him. He did however, embrace technology and was very proud of my ventures to this end.<BR/><BR/>When we saw him his mood changed and he was very happy to spend time albeit pretty much bed ridden, with us all! We shared a red wine (albeit cask), and a Winfield red cigarette (not that I smoke). <BR/><BR/>He told me to be good to my lovely wife, to NEVER start smoking, and too look to the stars one day as he'll be looking down on us! <BR/><BR/>I love you Uncle Charlie and miss you very much. Mum only told me of his passing after our honeymoon ended yesterday and it is great to know his friends were there and he had so many friends.<BR/><BR/>Love you forever Uncle Charlie.<BR/><BR/>Mark & Annette and Melanie HepplestonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-21033987109223278972008-12-15T00:13:00.000+13:002008-12-15T00:13:00.000+13:00Thanks Kat, nice to know Sam had such a wide circl...Thanks Kat, nice to know Sam had such a wide circle of friends.<BR/>MMike Moroneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703129652815202956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38604590.post-47043369617439952962008-12-13T18:32:00.000+13:002008-12-13T18:32:00.000+13:00I only knew Sam, "virtually" through the Mudcat Ca...I only knew Sam, "virtually" through the Mudcat Cafe Folk Music site at www.mudcat.org, but he made a lasting impression, signed in as "Billy the Bus." He had a larger than life unique way of getting his point across and telling stories. I felt I was right there on the tour of Stewart Island with him at the helm when he told us about it. I feel a great sadness at his passing and regret that I will never be able to meet him in the 3D world. Thanks for this blog and for your memories of this memorable character named Sam.<BR/><BR/>katlaughing(not right now!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com