🕯 Nicole Bessant lit a candle A venue for Besso's Wake has not been finalised yet. For those wishing to attend, details can be found here within the next 48 hours (Wednesday afternoon).

🕯 Colin Grinyer J.P. lit a candle Thinking of you & your family at this sad time.

Mike,We came to your 40th birthday party 20 years ago,after which we spent a lot of time with you, Fran,Nicole,Sarah and Luke. After golf on Saturdays there were your famous BBQs. We ate, chatted,laughed and played with the kids. Then came the serious business. THE GAMES! We played late into the night always wanting to even the score. Fran and Jen...more

🕯 Garry and Jenny lit a candle Rest in painfree peace Mike.

Yes I totally agree Jane M, taken far too young. Lots of memories throughout our lives together with our children and of course lots of golf memories. One comes to mind when Mike was teaching me to play golf. The rules of golf we will all be learning and trying to remember (golfing people will agree) - playing at Muirfield Golf Club in the 80’s (be...more

Those golf trips to the junior tournaments with the kids from Camden Valley. Especially the Port Kembla week with all the kids on your bus and stopping at the caravan park. We had more fun then the kids. And at the Collaroy hotel that beautiful afternoon with you and Julian. (who was watching the kids)

Besso, remembering the day when you and I were in a cart waiting on the 27th fairway and Lee Tan came over laughing hysterical asking if we needed help as it looked liked we were bogged.(Don't know what he meant...hadn't rained for three months....)

You left us too soon BUDDY. We may not have seen each other all that often, especially in recent years, but when we did we always had a great time. You made me feel like I was your best mate. You will be greatly missed. Thanks for the memories.

Glad that you are resting peacefully now mate. I will always remember the day we won the pennant final at New Brighton. You were manager. I played terrible. You kept me in there with threats of violence if I got beat. I was 1 down playing the last. You came walking back down the fairway with arms in the air when we got that 4th win and the match...more

I only had 500 characters for my last message to Mike. This is the rest of my message. Well, Willy was sent into taste the beer. He came out & told us beer was SHIT. We asked him what was the name of the beer, he said 'root beer' . For those who don't know what root beer is, it's a soft drink. As you would gather, we didn't buy that. I'll miss you ...more

Mike, RIP (return if possible). I remember traveling on our bus trip around the USA in the early 80's. We were very young, in our early 20's. Those were the good old days, before kids FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND WINKING EYE. You were in charge of packing the bus after every stop. Your reason why, you didn't want to do the cooking, washing up & p...more