My firstborn son Stephen in loving memory 💕

Some favourite memories of my son Stephen James Leppan.
He started orphanages.
He helped old folk to keep their retirement home that was set to be demolished.
He helped impoverished people to get potable water and flushing toilets.
He organized marches against crime.
He was unofficially part of local government - an activist in the DA working for a better society for all.
He loved animals (had a pet pig). He wrote a book "7 Keys" on finance. He wrote regular articles for two glossy magazines Die Helderberg and Simonstown.
He acted as my advocate in a successful out of court settlement against a high powered attorney.
He was the Chairperson of not just one, but several organisations.
He appeared numerous times on the radio and Carte Blanche exposing ponzi schemes.
He rid the town he lived in of numerous criminal hot spots where illegal arms were confiscated.
He organized Toy Runs - hundreds of South African truckers came to Cape Town to give toys to sick children. He arranged funding for those sick children at Red Cross Children's Hospital.
He saved the life of a little boy that had no funding to undergo chemo.
He stopped the people in Sir Lowry's Pass dumping effluent into their stream so that today it runs pristinely into Gordon's Bay. He was an artist - my favourite painting of his is a lighthouse, because that's how he was. A light in the dark.
He was highly creative, made plant holders such as open hands for holding plants, usually Bonsai. Loved clay molding.
His greatest pastime was creating Bonsai. His garden was full of very expensive beautiful Bonsai and objects of peace where he loved to meditate by his swimming pool and the lapa with a background of Hottentots Hollands beautiful mountains. He had dreams - to settle in the Karoo off the grid after his girls finished varsity.
He travelled everywhere in South Africa taking joy in meeting people that even spoke with different dialects.
He made a friend of everyone he met. He was very much loved. He had immeasurable amounts of friends.
Second to creating Bonsai, his greatest love was scuba-diving on Sundays in Simonstown or away at Sodwana Bay, KZN. There are several You Tube videos of his underwater dives.
He loved to fish - here in Knysna on the lagoon or out at sea catching the big ones.
He loved life so much. Challenges of any kind. Hikes. Parachuting. Flying.
He was a loving son. A loving loyal and faithful brother to five siblings.
A successful businessman, a leader of note, kind hearted to the extreme, a loving father, husband and gentleman and a Rhodie who did his army training for South Africa.
I've no doubt missed a great deal about him because he lived his life to the full so much. Too much to share here.
He was my firstborn son. The one who made me a mother at 17. I turned 18 a month later.
But evil prevailed. He was found in a basement parking where he never parked in his closed yet unlocked vehicle at midday deceased from a gunshot wound meticulously, accurately and directly shot through his temples.
He had been breathing in blood for a while. His cruel lying PA watched as he died lying, saying the car doors were locked. They were not. Could not be resuscitated by the time help finally came by a lady passing by.
It was 8th April 2021.
That wonderful loving, giving, kind, huge generous heart stopped beating.
☆Stephen James I love and miss you so ☆
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