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Resolution
number MR/2020/83
MOVED by Member A Candy, seconded by Member R
McLean:
That the Manurewa Local Board:
a)
acknowledge Marlene who passed
away at her home in Greenmeadows
Avenue on Friday last week. She lay at home on Saturday 4th
July and
was taken back to Tauranga on Sunday to be interred with
her dear
husband, the late Reginald ‘Doc’
Borell on Monday 6th July.
Briefly Marlene and Doc Borell, together, have absolutely
stamped their
imprint on Manurewa.
Doc was a Trustee/Treasurer for the Manurewa Marae Trust
Board and for
many years the whole family was active in fundraising for
the building of
what was to become the Manurewa Marae complex. In
fact, their son Nigel
became a voluntary student of Whakairo under Peter Boyd
(who was a
tutor at St Stephen’s School). Which led to Peter
mentoring Nigel, as a
James Cook High School student, in designing and
undertaking the
beautiful Kowhaiwhai and Mural artwork within the
Wharenui “Matukurua”
from 1997 through to the opening in 1999. From
these humble beginnings
with the support of his parents, Nigel has climbed the
Arts and Culture
ladder and is currently the Maori Art Curator at the
Auckland Art Gallery.
Marlene was an active member of the Maori Women’s
Welfare League in
Manurewa, and she was the Founder of Te Kaha o te
Rangatahi, initially set
up as a wrap-around service for teen mothers and their
babies in Panmure,
then extended to Otahuhu/Papatoetoe and finally reviewed
and refocused
to youth in general. It is worthy to note that Te
Kaha o te Rangatahi are an
integral part of Manurewa Marae to this day, and
participated in the Covid-
19 response by packaging 30,000 hygiene packs for the
people of
Manurewa.
May another taonga from Manurewa, Marlene Borell, rest in
peace with her
dear husband Reginald ‘Doc’ Borell and rise
in glory.
Moe mai te moengaroa, Marlene, moe mai, moe
mai, moe mai.
CARRIED
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