A Funeral Service for Mr. John Brian William VAN DER HEIDEN will be held at Adams Funeral Chapel, 39 Fitzroy Street, KERANG on FRIDAY (10th April, 2026) commencing at 10:30am.
Location of Chapel can be found here
Followed by Burial at the Kerang Lawn Cemetery.
Location of the Cemetery can be found here
We wish to encourage you to express your sympathies and condolences to the family via a post on this announcement which the family are able to access and read.
(All messages are pending the approval of staff to avoid inappropriate content).
John’s Chapel and Burial Services will be live streamed on FRIDAY (10th April, 2026) commencing at 10.30am.
Please click on the Live Stream Tab on our main page where the service will be streamed live on FRIDAY.
Deepest sympathy to Fiona, Alex and Nathan. Great memories of working with John. Thinking of you all. Philip and Sally Thomson.
Deepest sympathy to Tegan Michael and family 🙏❤️❤️
John
Thank you for being my gaming friend for close to 14 years. We met through SWTOR and from there toyed with a couple of other games before landing on ESO. We talked and laughed most days as we played. Yes you were a grumpy old man and couldn’t go more than an hour without going to make a coffee but I will miss you greatly. I am glad you are no longer in pain, rest in peace my friend and be sure that every time a red-headed toon runs past me in whatever game I am playing I will remember you.
A lovely service for a very special man, someone who could make people all over the world stay up till stupid o’clock just to say goodbye. He is and will be missed.
So sad you have gone. But really glad to have met you, mate. Thanks for all the laughs you gave us, watching your streams, and gaming with you. My condolences to your family and friends. You will be a great loss to us all. Johnny, rest in peace.
Dear John,
You will be missed my friend.
My condoleances to all your family and friends.
Leo (Scrumpf).
John you will be missed by so many.
You where a great friends in gaming and in general.
I am still shocked you’re gone.
I’ve known you for the past 8 or 9 years.
I wish you where still here to have one more chat.
Johnny, sorry to hear of your passing. I remember your YouTube streams.
RIP Johnny.
John held a very special place in my heart. We worked together at Jakab’s for many years, during that time his friendship, banter, endless Simpson references, and being a soundboard for me as I navigated early adulthood was something that I truly appreciated and held dear. He came to my wedding, was around when I had my first baby and handed me a lifeline of table tennis, when he knew I had to get out for a break from motherhood. A home cooked cake was something that always brightened his day. Endless cups of instant roast coffee and of course the rollie sitting on his bottom lip. John had a way of reading you and knowing just how you were feeling or that sound thing was going on before you even said. He loved and cared more that he let on. His family was everything to him. He will be greatly missed by those who knew just how special he was. My deepest sympathy to all the family. Much love.
Johnny while we were only Farming Simulator friends for a short 4 years I will miss having our chats. You always were good to check in from the other side of the world with me and that’s one of the things that made our friendship special to me.
Your were the driving force in our little group of farmers that kept us together and we will strive to continue the fellowship you have started.
Condolences to all your family and friends.
Your Farm Hand,
Jamie.
Deepest sympathy to Fiona, Alex and Nathan. Thinking of you all at this sad time. xx
Very sorry to hear John has passed away. Lots of good memories with John when we were in business. He was always willing to help in any way. Sending love to Fiona Tegan and families. RIP.
Peter & Joy Taylor.
Jonny,
Thank you for your friendship and the banter, for pushing me to start making maps for Farming Simulator, and for always keeping me right when I got things wrong.
I’ll never forget the laughs, especially our Friday multiplayer gaming nights and the carnage and chaos of the 24 hour streams.
Rest easy, mate.
Stuart (wonko)
I am sad you are gone. I will miss you. And my condolences to your family and friends your friend Ice.
Rest in peace.