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\nI first met Neil at Bourke Street High School in 1960 &<\/strong> were mates from when we first met.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Norm Pracey <\/strong>& Normie Woods were also in our class and we all played <\/strong>football for the school and from school football I went <\/strong>to Chelsea & played F Grade.<\/strong> When their daughter Brooke was born they<\/strong> On one of our trips we ran<\/strong> It really pleases me to say our sons Adam & Gavin are best mates My Mate Neil Hayward I first met Neil at Bourke Street High School in 1960 & were mates from when we first met. Norm Pracey & Normie Woods were also in our class and we all played football for the school and from school football I went to Chelsea & played F Grade. Neil & Norm Pracey followed me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/strong>
\n Neil & Norm Pracey fol<\/strong>lowed me the next year & we all played E Grade to<\/strong>gether.<\/strong>
\n
\nWe played Presidents Cup & toured Darwin in 1965.<\/strong>
\n
\nNeil married his childhood sweetheart, Glenda Vergona <\/strong>in 1964. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nasked me to be her Godfather and to this day she still <\/strong>calls me Uncle Frank.<\/strong>
\n
\n<\/strong>Glenda, Kathy, Neil & I have <\/strong>had some fantastic holidays and we had some great times <\/strong>down the south coast and also skiing trips with our<\/strong>
\nkids.<\/strong>
\n
\n<\/strong>
\nIn later years the four of us travelled to Hawaii Las <\/strong>Vegas, New York and L.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ninto Norm & Pam Hazzard in San Francisco.<\/strong>
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\nNeil was a very successful businessman owning his own paper recycling business for many years; he also owned several race horses with his mates and as he liked a bet he got a great deal of enjoyment out of them.<\/p>\n
\n
\nNeil was like a brother to me and I miss his laugh and his funny sayings. Lots of times I was the only one who knew what he was talking about (except for Glenda).
\n
\nNeil was killed while working on 29 October 2010, he was semi retired & had told me he would finish up in the following July.
\n
\nGlenda, Brooke, Adam and Rachel, were with Neil right to the end. Stephen (Neil\u2019s brother), & myself, Kathy, Gavin and Gina, were with them for support.
\n
\nNeil is gone but he will never be forgotten.
\n
\nR.I.P. MATE \u2013Frank \u201cBoso\u201d Bostick
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