Magnus Marr
From Moriston Matters, Issue 30, December 1982.
Glenmoriston is once more bereaved of a notable member of our Community, held in high regard by all who knew him, but especially in the congregation of the Church of Scotland, the local branch of the Forestry Commission and the localities of Torgoyle and Riverside Park. For the larger part of his life, Magnus was a grocer to trade. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Scots and the Honourable Artillery Company. His conduct in those arduous years is described in his Certificate of Discharge as “Exemplary , excellent, hard working, reliable and conscientious". When he gave up the pent-up life of the city grocer for the fresh air of the hill and the forest, his co-operators soon got their own touch of all those qualities.
Magnus belonged to a musical family, his first love being the piano. The local Church was grateful that he allowed himself to be impressed into playing the organ. He was an efficient Clerk of the Congregational Board and a dedicated Elder. He had a lively sense of humour and was loved and honoured by his neighbours' children.
His wife, Helen, and his two sons, Ian and Roy, with their wives and children have suffered an early bereavement, and they have the warmest sympathy of many friends in Aberdeen and Glenmoriston and elsewhere. Those who knew him best would say “He taught us how to live and he taught us how to die. We wouldn't ask for more than that”. It can be felt and believed that there is a place here for the highest words. ”I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown" .... “Well done thou good and faithful servant ..... enter thou into the joy of the Lord"..