Jamieson Hoch, 35, only child of Australian pop singer Lynne Randall dies
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"IT'S unbelievable," says a family friend and who can argue? Barely
three days after scattering his mother's ashes at St Kilda beach,
Jamieson Hoch has also gone. The only child of 1960s pop star Lynne
Randell died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday night, leaving
a widow and two children, six-year-old Jacob and four-year-old Rachel.
"Everyone is stunned," Diary was told. "It's like a movie with a
really bad ending."
His death was so sudden that Murdoch's Herald Sun published an
obituary of Randell yesterday, unaware of her son's demise 48 hours
earlier. It was only last Saturday that 35-year-old Jamieson joined a
group of mourners at St Kilda beach. "He spoke on the night," said one
attendee, "and he was the one who put Lynne's ashes in the water."
Lynne's brother broke the tragic news to friends on Wednesday.
Jamieson's father Abe Hoch, Lynne's ex-husband, is flying in from Los
Angeles for the funeral today.
Lynne Randell took her own life last month after a long drug
addiction. She left gifts and letters for family and friends.
Three years ago Jamieson told Age scribe Peter Wilmoth that Randell's
addiction had "not allowed her to be a mother". He said: "Sometimes
she didn't get out of bed for days and days. I was living on take-out
pizza. I would get up, get dressed and walk down the hill to school
myself. She was thrust into a very adult world as a young person
herself. At five or six she treated me more like a confidant than a
child. In my formative years, when you need a mother, she was busy
being Lynne Randell."
