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Kenneth BRIERLEY Obituary
Memories and Condolences
for Kenneth BRIERLEY
Sponsored by Mark Rowley Funeral Services.
2 Entries
Ian and Edith Wylie
May 22, 2023
I first met Ken when we started Form 1 at South Wellington Intermediate School in 1951. This was quite a big school with about 10 classrooms. In our case about 30 pupils boys and girls were there. I was seated on the right hand side of the room whereas Ken was over on the window side. In the middle were all the girls. It soon became obvious Ken was a bit of a character. I wondered "Who is that clown over there?". Little did I know Ken would become one of my best friends.
In due course I went to the Brierley home in Island Bay after school where we got into serious backyard cricket, or carried out chemistry experiments in the shed out the back. This sort of activity carried on into the Wellington College years. There we also increased our knowledge of the English language by reading "Donald Duck" comics with tons of laughter. I often got a ride home with Mrs Brierley and she and my mother became good friends. Ken and I were in the same forms at Wellington College in years 3 - 5 and during that time Ken became very skilled at maths and science. Our great maths teacher Sam Meads often had to call on Ken to solve his maths problems! By the 6th form we were in different classes, so did not see so much of Ken. In 1957 I started work and went to Varsity evening classes where as Ken was a day student there so hardly saw Ken at all. Eventually I went to Invercargill for work and Ken went overseas. My Mum sent me a photo of Ken and Freda's wedding which I still have. As the years rolled by my sister moved to Auckland and on one of my occasional visits to the north I became aware of the Brierley name featuring in the Herald. My curiosity was aroused and I looked up the phone book, and there he was only a couple of blocks away from where my niece lived. I knocked on the Door and there he was! Wylie, Come in he said and from there my wife Edith and I enjoyed laughs and delicious lunches at the Brierley home on our subsequent visits to Auckland. Every Christmas since we have exchanged humor filled greetings which I will never forget. We have lost a very good friend and extend to Freda and the family our deepest sympathy.
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