It was a beautiful ceremony. Rest in peace old cum. I see you later.
I met Allan on Walther´s birtday dinner in Portugal. He sat beside me and immediately we started talking and laughing. Over the years, we met several times (but never enough...)
Allan is a very sensitive soul, full of Light and Joy. Wonderful photographer, too!
I miss you, dear friend
I have known Allan for a quarter of a century. I could write a book about him. Now you are gone, and I will keep this book private in my memory.
Allan was a good friend for almost a decade. He was an exceedingly kind, humorous and generous person. Our common interest to start with was Portugal where we met in 2011. Later we found many areas of common interest, for serious discussion and light-hearted banter. With Allan one could speak about anything and find an intelligent listener and a well-considered reply.
Thank you Allan, for shining a light into this world. I will miss you.
Allan is my best friend cross ages because we have a almost 30 year difference. So I also treat him as my father. I still remember the first time we met in the airport of Trondheim in 2010, just a day before Fathers Day. Allan sent Anders to ask me if I came from China. I said yes. He was so happy that he met a Chinese guy in Norway because he just came back from China and enjoyed the fantastic trip in China as a member of symphony orchestra attending EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. We talked not too much in the airport and air plane, but we talked too much when I visited him after I returned from China a month later. I also invited him to visit me and cooked Chinese food for him. We built a very deep friendship. When I returned China, we kept close touch and often communicate by email. In 2012, he visited us with Stefan and Anders for the first time. Stefan and Anders were no adults yet at that time. In 2015 I took my family to visit him in February and then he visited us again with Oda and Anders in August although he got pneumonia at that time. That is his first time to stay in hospital. And he suffered a lot during back trip to Norway. And in summer 2018, he visited me again with Ida and Stefan when I returned from America. Actually, I didnt fully support him to visit us because of the sickness, and I worried about the long-time flight will damage his health. But Allan insisted on it. He told me this trip perhaps was the last one to China, and visiting me is one of his list things before he dies. I couldnt believe it came true. This visiting was really the last time! Allan, I owe you a visiting! I promised you I would visit you again in this year! Allan, I owe you a call. Just the week before you went, I told you I would call you in the weekend. But I didnt and you left us forever! I still cant believe that. You are always humorous, kind and considerate, I miss you very much. I hope we can meet again in the heaven in the future.
Allan was my pupil at Wigan Grammar School in the 1960's, remained in touch and enriched my life especially in the realm of music. For a lifetime of laughter and generosity with lively, witty and well-informed conversation, thank you Allan, my very best of friends.
Allan was my cousin and he thought of my mother as his second mother. I have very happy memories of the time we spent together growing up in Wigan. Allan was a few years older than me and he was a very interesting person to be around. Allan had lots of interests and a very good sense of humor/mischief. He developed an interest in music from a very young age, I think his first instrument was a trumpet or a guitar. In the 1960's I would sometimes accompany him to the Wigan Orchestra rehearsals, these were held upstairs in a Wigan public house close to the town
centre. Allan was playing the violin at this time, although I didn't play an instrument I enjoyed the rehearsals.
As you know, Allan went on to become a professional musician and lived his boyhood dream. Allan has made friends all over the world. His main focus was his two sons Stefan and Anders who he loved dearly. I'll miss
him terribly and so will many others. I'm so sorry that I can't be with you
all for his funeral. RIP Allan.