Rotorua Daily Post
  • Rotorua Daily Post home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Residential property listings
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Rural
  • Sport

Locations

  • Tauranga
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Tokoroa
  • Taupō & Tūrangi

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales

Weather

  • Rotorua
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Tokoroa
  • Taupō

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Rotorua Daily Post

Kiwi Dreamworld victim Cindy Low 'radiated love' family say at funeral

AAP
3 Nov, 2016 06:05 AM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Cindy Low. Photo / Supplied

Cindy Low. Photo / Supplied

Everything Dreamworld victim Cindy Low said or did "radiated love", her heartbroken friends and family say.

The "vivacious", "compassionate" and "caring" wife and mother-of-two, killed when a theme park ride malfunctioned on the Gold Coast last week, was farewelled on the NSW Central Coast today.

"You rocked our world and we loved every minute of it," her husband of almost 20 years, Mathew Low, said in a letter read out at the funeral in Palmdale.

"I promise to celebrate ... each precious moment."Loved ones would always "look to the stars where you will shine bright," her sister Storm said in a poem.

A haka was performed in honour of the 42-year-old New Zealand expat before the start of the service.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

She was one of four people who died on the Thunder River Rapids ride last Tuesday when a raft collided with another and flipped.

It was "a day when our world fell to pieces", a friend said.

But they tried to focus on happier days, with a slideshow of the family and anecdotes about Ms Low's childhood and misadventures with friends.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

She was an avid photographer, baker and the family's "crazy cat lady".

She was also immensely proud and protective of her children, 10-year-old Kieran and 12-year-old Isla.

Kieran was with his mother when she died and remains deeply traumatised.

The family feels "a deep sense of injustice" over the accident, which also killed Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozbeh Araghi.

Discover more

New Zealand

'Impossible to imagine world without her'

02 Nov 04:38 AM
World

Dreamworld scraps killer ride

08 Nov 08:23 PM

Dreamworld will not reopen at least until after all four funerals.

- AAP

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Rotorua Daily Post

Rotorua Daily Post

'Lit a flame inside me': Programme receives boost to support local men

21 Jun 05:00 PM
Premium
Rotorua Daily Post

'It was my calling': Inside the Taupō farm taming wild horses

20 Jun 10:00 PM
Rotorua Daily Post

'Max capacity': Good news for growing school squeezing classes into library

20 Jun 09:00 PM

Jono and Ben brew up a tea-fuelled adventure in Sri Lanka

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Rotorua Daily Post

'Lit a flame inside me': Programme receives boost to support local men

'Lit a flame inside me': Programme receives boost to support local men

21 Jun 05:00 PM

Referrals come from NZ Police, community groups, and self-referrals.

Premium
'It was my calling': Inside the Taupō farm taming wild horses

'It was my calling': Inside the Taupō farm taming wild horses

20 Jun 10:00 PM
'Max capacity': Good news for growing school squeezing classes into library

'Max capacity': Good news for growing school squeezing classes into library

20 Jun 09:00 PM
'Save a lot more lives': Stage 4 cancer survivor's plea for earlier screening

'Save a lot more lives': Stage 4 cancer survivor's plea for earlier screening

20 Jun 06:00 PM
Help for those helping hardest-hit
sponsored

Help for those helping hardest-hit

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Rotorua Daily Post e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Rotorua Daily Post
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP