Francis Roy Thompson (1896–1966)
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Francis Roy died in 1966 at the Mount Barker Hospital in the Adelaide Hills. Writing of Francis Roy's funeral, on a wet grey day in Adelaide, the painter Ruth Tuck recalls the actor Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz stepping forward and, in a moment when miraculously the sun was shining, he paid tribute, “Roy! We have come to say goodbye; we’re here today because we are your friends and we love you. We’ve been to your studio garden Roy and gathered some of your flowers for you. They’re flowers you loved to paint so much. The colour of these flowers you’ve left in your paintings Roy, we’ve bought for you today the soursobs, the salvation jane, the pansies and the lilies and the roses.”
