BERT NEWTON 1938-2021 ‘HE GAVE US SO MUCH JOY’
Smiling broadly and surrounded by five of his six grandchildren, Bert Newton posed for a photo from his bed in a private palliative care clinic. “This is what happiness is,” his beloved wife Patti captioned the Instagram snap. In fact, being with his daughter Lauren’s children had become the highlight of his life. “There is that old saying, the wonderful thing about being a grandparent, is that you give the kids back,” Bert once said. “But in the case of Patti and myself, we don’t want to.”
One week after she shared that image online, Patti was the picture of sorrow the
