Left to right: John Montgomery’s cousins Margaret Forbes and Margaret MacEachan, sister Marjory McCardel, wife Angela Montgomery, and grandson Adrian Montgomery, Eileen Gibbs, Keith Gibbs, Lorna Jarman, John’s daughter Fiona Emmett, Roy Rutherford, Elchris McFarlane, John’s granddaughter Maddie Emmett, Sara Rutherford, John’s great nieces Lily McLoughlin and Lorna McLoughlin, and cousin Mike Forbes.
A family journeyed 11,000 miles from New Zealand to Oban on Friday to scatter a relative’s ashes into the bay.
Veterinary surgeon John Montgomery, who died two years ago, spent most of his life overseas but, for him, Oban was always his home.