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RIP Mike (Johnny) Downes (OG 1951)


RIP Mike (Johnny) Downes (OG 1951) sadly passed away on Friday, 18 December in Hermanus after a long battle with cancer. He was 86. Mike as many will remember him was a great friend to the school and attended many of the Old Georgian Union function. Mike attended the 170th Celebration dinner joining the vintage table of contemporise form his time at SGGS.


I chatted to Mike during the early part of the lockdown in May, he shared with me that he has enjoyed a long and very happy life; thanks to 62 years of marriage to a wonderful lady, loving children, and not regretting one minute what SGGS has done for him.




Mike started work on his memoires sometime back, he shared the chapter with me of his time at SGGS. It was a wonderful insight to the life and times of a 12-year old in the late 1940s.



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