Stephen WATSON
You are warmly invited to the funeral celebrating Stephen’s life on Tuesday 24th June, 2025 at Dromkeen, 1012 Kilmore Road, Riddells Creek, commencing at 2pm.
Refreshments will follow the service.
Stephen is to be privately cremated.
If you are unable to be present in person, please join us via the livestream.
Service Details
2.00 PM
Tuesday 24th June
Dromkeen, 1012 Kilmore Road,
Riddells Creek
You are warmly invited to the funeral celebrating Stephen’s life on Tuesday 24th June, 2025 at Dromkeen, 1012 Kilmore Road, Riddells Creek, commencing at 2pm.
Refreshments will follow the service.
Stephen is to be privately cremated.
If you are unable to be present in person, please join us via the livestream.
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What a lovely service which truly reflected Stephen’s life and the love he had for his family and friends. He will be sadly missed by the people who loved him the most but, in time, hopefully they can take comfort from the many precious memories Stephen has left behind. He was a special person.
Sending much love to the family.
Kathy,
My deepest sympathy to you and your family. It was special to have been able to have met with Stephen earlier this year in Scotland and share some funny stories of our teenage days together.
God Bless at this sad and difficult time.
Stuart
My profoundest sympathies to Kathy, Anna, Ian, Paul, Jean Anne, and all the family and many friends for the loss of Stephen.
He was a kind and funny man, who will be much missed.
Stephen’s family and mine spent a lot of time together when we were children. Mostly following our dads around as they played for countless hours with yachts, sailing dinghies, speedboats and other water craft then back to their house in Irvine for fish and chips and games such as a rather fiddly 1970s version of table football.
I always valued Stephen’s kindness. He was the eldest child in the group and I was the youngest and the only girl. He was notably kind and always sensitively took care to notice people and their personalities and feelings. That made an improvement to the hours spent on cold slip ways waiting for boat stuff to be done. Stephen realised I was small, cold, bored and tired and often made sure to say something gentle and encouraging.
Stephen was good friends with my dad Stewart, and was super kind in his messages sent when my dad died in 2022; Stephen demonstrated again genuine connection and care.
I didn’t see Stephen again since he emigrated from Scotland many years ago, I would have liked to meet his wife and children but I did hear updates from his mum.
I’m so sorry for his family whose grief must feel so hard to bear. I too have buried a son and I know how very hard it is. I hope Stephen’s mum, wife, children and brother can find a source of comfort as you all walk through this painful valley of the shadow of death.
I am friends with Stephen’s brother and had the privilege to be matron of honour to his best man at Marilina’s and Muir’s wedding. Sending love and sympathy to all his family.
I have known Stephen since he was a baby and over the years have had so many great memories of him. A friendly child, telling jokes and playing with his black labrador Jet, spending many hours at Irvine beach waterskiing followed by fish and chips (only chips for Muir!) back at his home, visits to us in Duart Drive and adventures in boats at Loch Lomond and at our caravan at Roseneath.
He was a gentle, caring Dad to his children and loved to chat on the phone from Australia to my family.
He will be missed by so many, especially Jean Anne, Kathy, Anna, Paul and Ian.
Goodbye Stephen
Stephen, you were an amazing friend and I will never forget our sailing, driving, skiing adventures. We learned so much together.
I am so grateful I managed to visit you in Australia last year and we were able to spend that time together.
It was also lovely that I managed to spend more time with you here in Scotland a few weeks ago despite it being very difficult for you.
I will miss our (long) phone calls hearing about Kathy, Anna, Ian & Paul, our chats about cars, political arguments and most of all your dodgy jokes.
Rest in peace.
I had the rare privilege of attending Stephen and Kathy’s wedding in Scotland, where I witnessed Stephen truly in his element, surrounded by loving family and friends. A few short years after that, he made the brave decision to move to Australia, seeking to provide a better environment for his young family. His dedication to his family was a defining feature of his life, and it was evident in everything he did.
Stephen was a warm-hearted, cheerful, and thoughtful person whose presence brightened the lives of those around him. My heart goes out to his beloved family and friends during this difficult time.
Stephen will be deeply missed, but his spirit and the memories we shared will forever remain in our hearts.
Stephen was a lovely, kind, and encouraging person and I’ll miss our calls and messages and his humour. He was so good to keep in touch despite being half way across the globe. My deepest sympathies and condolences to Kathy, Anna, Ian and Paul and to Jean Anne and all his family and friends.
Epitaph on a Friend, by Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest,
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d;
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.