Brilliant Lies - Brian Connor Eulogy

Some may remember Brian Conner as the chauvinistic, Wolf Blass drinking, womanizing pig, but the loyal few that gather here today remember him as the man who had his fair share of life’s ups and downs. Although from the outside some may disagree he loved his family true and had always fought his hardest to hold us all together. I remember Katy saying a few years ago following Dad’s operation "I guess any institution that can incorporate sociopaths, [drunken womanizers], homosexuals and Christians, who still manage to speak to one another, must have something going for it."

I think that there where and still are a number of things going for us as a family. Dad’s desire to be a better father and re-write the wrong’s of the past following his life saving operation ten years ago was certainly one of them. That is of course what we are here to honor today.

My father was a fierce little tacker, from birth to death. Although we nearly lost him on November 24th 1943 as he the newborn child fought for his life in hospital, his mother wasn’t so lucky she died on the operating theatre table in order for young Brian to live. We don’t know really know much about what happened to our grandmother Dad never like to talk about it and we never pressed him. Dad was taken into state care waiting until the day his father returned from defending king and country luckily for Brian his dad didn’t meet the same fate as his mother and tens of thousands of other Australian servicemen who gave up the lives for us to live so well today. Brian’s father raised him as best he could and after years of many fights in the playground, the old man pulled him from school and set him to work in the family real estate business, We’re as you all know meant of to make millions, and how he lost it we wont go into as we are here to celebrate he successes and great comebacks.

Brian as a teenager was just like you would except rough and tumble loving footballer who loved his grog and loved his women. Brian through loved one woman a little bit more than the rest through. My mother, at first hated him but after thousands of requests she eventually agreed to go on a date with him, somewhere she saw something in him and they hit it of and here we all are now. I guess its just one of those thinks that happen in the dances between men and women.

Dad was a proud father and he spoilt us so much it was embarrassing well for me anyway, Susy and Katy enjoyed there yearly trips all over the world and gold American Express cards a little too much to be embarrassed. One time when Susy was twelve our mother dressed her up for a party when Dad dropped her off a group of boys where teasing her, Susy was devasted