Many people will have known Viv Easton, from Collieston Offshore Rowing Club. It came as a huge shock to learn that she passed suddenly on 17th February 2025. She was often described as a ‘force of nature’, in our rowing community taking a leading role in organising the teams for the North East region at the Freshwater Sprints, jumping into an empty seat at any regatta if other crews were short, leading weekly HIIT classes CORCFIT, and generally taking on any task with gusto…
Today, in a packed church in Oldmeldrum, members from at least 14 different rowing clubs from Queensferry to Ullapool and everywhere in between as well as Durham and Bristol joined her family and their many friends at a moving service to say goodbye to this larger than life character. It was standing room only, a testament to the huge number of people whose lives she had touched. After the service, 32 oars were raised in a moving salute as Viv’s coffin left the church.
Viv would have appreciated the subsequent gathering at Meldrum House Hotel! It gave friends from far and wide the opportunity to reminisce and share stories and she will be sadly missed.
