Mitchell Norris: Life of St Brendan’s College Year 9 student to be celebrated at Yeppoon
Students honouring the life of Mitchell Norris, who died after an ATV rollover, have been asked to wear ‘something bright’ as the community gathers to pay its respects to the Year 9 student.
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St Brendan’s College students will form a guard of honour at the funeral of Mitchell Norris on Saturday.
Family and friends attending the celebration of the teenager’s life have been asked to wear what they think Mitchell would have wanted them to wear.
“Soccer kit, school uniform, something bright” are among the suggestions in a notice detailing the service to be held at 11am Saturday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Yeppoon.
Mitchell died in hospital following an ATV rollover on a private property at Bungundarra on the Capricorn Coast on Friday, August 27.
He was a Year 9 student at St Brendan’s.
Two days later, fellow student Eli Kent, who was also 14, lost his battle with cancer.
It was a devastating blow for St Brendan’s, which lost long-serving staff member Peter Bartlett and Year 11 student Rhys Yore within days of each other in January.
St Brendan’s principal Robert Corboy said this week that the college was continuing to support students and staff as they worked through the tragic loss of two valued members of its community.
“On Saturday the college will be represented in the form of a guard of honour as the (Norris) family celebrates the life of their beautiful son,” he said.
“Mitchell’s fellow students intend to honour his life befitting of a young man who was universally well regarded and a popular member of the college.”
A celebration of Eli’s life was held at the same church on Monday.
He had been undergoing another round of radiation in early August.
He and his family returned to Yeppoon in November 2020 after spending nine months in Brisbane hospitals after Eli was in February 2020 initially diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in his right ankle.
The Kent family shared the heartbreaking news of their beautiful boy’s passing on a Facebook page that was created to keep the community updated on Eli’s journey.
The post said Eli was loved by so many people and would be sorely missed.
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