OPOTIKIT RAGEDY ‘I’VE LOST MY GREATEST LOVE’
May 22, 2022
4 minutes
Words: Kasia Jillings.
In both life and death, Kaye Ene knew how to bring people together. When she married Manu Ene, her partner of 22 years, the small community of O¯potiki turned out in droves, filling the park where they exchanged vows and flooding out on to the footpath. At one stage, it looked like they’d have to close the road too.
And when Kaye tragically passed away at age 41 in February this year after a car crash, people again showed up, lining the streets outside their homes to watch Kaye’s final haerenga [journey] through town before she was laid
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