Mary and Rodney BURROWS

 

 

Editor's note - Mary and Rodney are two of six Australians and one New Zealand national who was living in Perth who are missing on flight MH370. There are thousands of articles about the missing flight, but I have only included one here.

 

Bob and Cathy Lawton and Rodney and Mary Burrows dream trip ends in Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 tragedy

THEY were four friends from Brisbane giving one of their own the trip of a lifetime before her eyesight deteriorated.

Bob Lawton told his boss he was taking five weeks’ long-service leave to give his wife Cathy a trip to Malaysia and China to celebrate her birthday “before she lost her eyesight”.

They were joined by Rodney and Mary Burrows.

Close friends have told how Cathy and Bob – an artistic grandmother and a grandfather who would “give you the shirt off his back” – had one last laugh with them before setting off last Monday.

Stunned colleagues from the company where Bob worked for more than 30 years yesterday paid tribute to the “genuine and trusted” employee who was devoted to his family.

“He was a really family-orientated man,” said Rodney Sharp, managing director of Sharp Plywood. “I knew him from when he was a young lad.”

Mr Sharp said Bob had only just started his leave.

“He had only been away a week. He was taking five weeks and wanted to go on a holiday to take her (Cathy) away while she could still see. It’s a tragedy,” he said.

Peter Pallister, another workmate, said he was “still expecting Bob to come into work again”.