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Title: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: one-eyed on December 30, 2011, 01:48:15 PM

Frank, former player himself in the 1940s and father of Francis and grandfather of David, passed away on Tuesday night aged 89. RIP.



BOURKE. - Francis Michael. Of Mount Waverley and Nathalia. Died peacefully in his Ninetieth year surrounded by his family at 7pm Dec 27, 2011 Husband of Desiree (dec.) and Joyce. Father of Francis, Marie, Kerry (dec.), Paul (dec.), Donna, Mark and Stephen. Father-in-law of Kerry, Liz, Helen and Danielle. Grandfather of sixteen and great grandfather of fifteen. Very loved.


BOURKE. - Frank. The Directors, Officials, Coaches, Players and Staff of the Richmond Football Club mourn the passing of Frank Bourke. Frank played 16 games and kicked 48 goals in a promising career at Tigerland during the 1940's that was interrupted by World War 2 and then prematurely ended due to injury. We extend our deepest sympathy to Club "Immortal" Francis Bourke on his father's passing and the rest of Frank's family and friends.

BOURKE. - Frank. The Committee and Members of the Richmond Former Players & Officials Association mourn the passing of Frank who was a longstanding member of our Association. Special condolences to Joyce, Francis and all family members. A GREAT TIGER - Mike Perry (President) and Bill Meaklim (Secretary).

http://tributes.heraldsun.com.au/obituaries/heraldsun-au/obituary.aspx?n=francis-michael-bourke&pid=155233045

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: Tigermonk on December 30, 2011, 04:59:22 PM

RIP old fella. Lest we forget  :pray

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: mightytiges on December 30, 2011, 09:10:37 PM

Condolences and sympathies to the Bourke family.

Three generations of Richmond footballers is pretty amazing. It sounds like Frank would've been a star FF barring the career-ending injury. He kicked 39 goals in the first 8 rounds of 1946 so he was on track for a 100-goal season before going down with a knee apparently. His football talent obviously carried over to St Francis.

http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/F/Frank_Bourke.html

RIP

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: bojangles17 on December 31, 2011, 09:32:53 AM

my condolences to the Bourke family, Im sorry for their loss

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: Mopsy on January 04, 2012, 02:58:27 PM

I have heard it said that the memories people have of you is your heaven, well my memories as a twelve year old boy watching Frank Bourke kick those goals at the Punt Road oval in 1946 will live with me forever. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: one-eyed on January 04, 2012, 04:33:58 PM

Farewell Frank
By Tony Greenberg
Wed 04 Jan, 2012

Richmond is mourning the passing of Frank Bourke at age 89.

Bourke is the patriarch of a famous dynasty in Tigerland history - father of Club ‘Immortal’, five-time premiership hero and 300-gamer, Francis Bourke, and grandfather of David Bourke, who played 85 games with the Tigers from 1995-01.

He was no slouch himself on the football field, having a highly promising career at Richmond in the 1940s, which was cut short because of a serious knee injury.

A 193cm, 85.5kg full-forward, Bourke was recruited from Victorian country town Nathalia and made his senior league debut for the Tigers in Round 15 of the 1943 season, against Melbourne at Punt Road. 

Full article: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/127681/default.aspx

Title: Re: Frank Bourke RIP
Post by: one-eyed on January 05, 2012, 01:45:47 PM

Here's Francis Bourke talking about his dad ...

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/roar%20vision%20archive/tabid/11454/contentid/413514/default.aspx