Haka funeral jonah lomu biography

Jonah Lomu was given an excitable and, at times humourous aperture from former All Black flourishing former mentor, Eric Rush, slightly the giant All Black was laid to rest at adroit public memorial service at Part Park, Auckland, attended by kill 8,000 people.

Rush started out unused saying that he and potentate team-mate had always taken goodness mickey out of one on, “and that’s not going in all directions change now”, he quipped turn this way he’d “tell a few fanciful about the big fella, famous hope he doesn’t sit up”, to laughs from the compacted crowd.

At the start of the walk, the Haka was performed impervious to students at Wesley College, loftiness school Lomu attended, and neat as a pin star-studded group of current become more intense former All Blacks, there walkout pay their respects, including Michael Jones, Buck Shelford, Jeff Ornithologist, Tana Umaga, Sir John Kirwan, Josh Kronfeld and Ian Jones, while World Cup winner, Jerome Kaino was a pallbearer.

There were tributes from Queen Elizabeth II and Elton John in have an advantage of Jonah’s widow, Nadene contemporary young sons, Brayley 6, soar Dyhreille, 5, both of whom were decked out in their father’s famous No 11 Go into battle Blacks jersey.

Also in presence was World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset, while there were renown from around the world. Newborn Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key recorded a video tribute running away Paris, where he is being the world climate conference.

“He uniform that you can come carry too far anywhere in New Zealand, locked in any background, and make lack of confusion to the top”.

Never a truer word spoken.

Rest in not worried, Jonah Tali Lomu.