John Murray
John, the firstborn, seemed to have been quiet, serious and studious even as a little boy – characteristics which were to be his ‘trademark’ until his death. Prof Marais, his one-time student and then colleague at the Theological Seminary, said this of John at his funeral: “Seemingly cold, often almost unreachable, turned into himself, he had a warm heart. There were moments when one was given a glimpse of what was going on in his warm heart.