Excerpts of messages from Pentti’s family and
friends
Read at memorial on 12 February:
We loved Pentti with all our heart, we have lost a
brother, we have lost a friend, an enormous bereavement has flowed through us
Your support for our family has given us strength
to try to overcome deep bereavement.
You were the jewel in the crown of Pentti's life.
Your dealings with Pentti were the fundamental
foundation for his activities and his
life.
You were Pentti's inspirers, promoters and friends.
Our deepest thanks to You
Today, Pentti
has left us, however his memory will stay with us forever.
Pentti’s
eldest son Janne identified brothers and sisters on day of memorial in
My uncles are Pekka, Juhanni, Mauri, Timo, Aunts
are Katarina & Marjatta. My grandmother is Eeva. My mother Marja
will be there also. I wish we could be at the event as well, I know it will be
beautiful. Note: Eeva now lives in
From Urho
Lempinen’s about the Helsinki memorial on February 3:
It was a moving memorial that will remain in
the minds of all of us who were fortunate enough to be able to attend. After
opening words, welcome and his recollection by Mr. Berndt Arell, Director of
the Kiasma Museum of Modern Arts, several distingushed speakers described their
personal friendship with Pentti. Speakers included, among others, Jorma Ollila,
Chairman of Nokia and Shell, Björn Wahlroos, Chairman of Sampo Group, Mario
Draghi, Governor of Bank of Italy, Ms. Lenita Airisto, Lady Elena Foster, Philosopher
Esa Saarinen and Father Ambrosius. Uniform in all of these accounts was the
portrait of a man of great intelligence and creativity, of enormous artistic
vision and capacity, of huge scope of interests ranging from deep science to
everyday human life, but in particular of a great friend and supporter. Lenita
Airisto said that after having been introduced to Pentti some 25 years ago, they
had spoken over the phone literally on every day since then until early January
this year. Esa Saarinen said that in Pentti he lost one of the finest men he
has ever had the priviledge of knowing, a man who was able to lift up his
friends through his optimism despite of having received huge repeated knock-out
blows and dismeriting especially in
I hope we all keep in our hearts and minds this vision of a great man, instilled from the
accounts of his closest friends.