{"id":563212,"date":"2026-08-08T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:34:08","slug":"tributes-pour-in-after-sudden-death-of-titirangi-community-stalwart-rob-teina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563212\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes pour in after sudden death of Titirangi community stalwart Rob Teina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teina died on Wednesday \u2013 three days after turning 40.<\/p>\n

\"MultipleMultiple sports clubs in West Auckland are mourning the loss of businessman and community stalwart Rob Teina, who died from a heart attack on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Daredevil Jiu Jitsu mourned him on social media, saying: \u201cWhether it was at training, on the sidelines at competitions, or travelling with us on international adventures, Rob was always there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mats won\u2019t feel the same. The sidelines won\u2019t sound the same. Our Daredevil family won\u2019t be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titirangi Primary School, which is attended by two of his children, published a tribute on social media, describing him as \u201ca cherished part of our school family\u201d.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Grappler, which runs jiu jitsu tournaments, said his \u201csudden passing has shaken everyone who had the privilege of knowing you\u201d.<\/p>\n

Teina was involved with several sports clubs and had sponsored some of them through Supreme Plumbing.<\/p>\n

His son played for Bay Olympic Football Club, which said Teina was \u201cone of the greatest sideline supporters our club has ever known\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning, the club honoured him at Crum Park by bringing players, coaches and supporters together for two minutes of silence.<\/p>\n

His friend Onny Kaulima said the timing of the death was \u201ccruel\u201d but it also meant that Teina\u2019s family members, who had flown from overseas to celebrate his milestone birthday, could also attend his funeral. <\/p>\n

\"OnnyOnny Kaulima (right) says Rob Teina (left) was “like a brother” to him.<\/p>\n

Kaulima had known Teina for 20 years and said the pair had become \u201cinseparable\u201d over the past decade. <\/p>\n

He described Teina as a \u201cgiant child at heart\u201d and a \u201clovable rogue\u201d who \u201cswore like a trooper\u201d but was \u201cgenerous to another level\u201d. <\/p>\n

He said Teina had been with Violet since high school and was the \u201cgreatest dad\u201d. <\/p>\n

Kaulima and Tom Kerrison, Teina\u2019s business partner, told the Herald he had loved to give people a chance, or leg up, especially \u201cunderdogs\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"RobRob Teina (back, second from the left) with his Supreme Plumbing staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had very high expectations of everybody, but also gave them such opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerrison joined Supreme Plumbing in its early days and built the business up with Teina, which he called \u201ca privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the company\u2019s motto was \u201cmore than a day job\u201d, which reflected how much Teina poured himself into it. <\/p>\n

Kerrison said Teina made it a point to invite every new employee to his home to meet his family, and would go out of his way \u201cto do anything for them\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"RobRob Teina, with his three young children, at a New Zealand Grappler competition.<\/p>\n

Teina built \u201camazing relationships\u201d with suppliers and manufacturers that were \u201cgenuine and impossible to fake\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSupreme was his everything. It\u2019s his legacy that we have a responsibility to carry on with.\u201d<\/p>\n

A public celebration of Teina\u2019s life will be held at Suburbs Rugby Football Club on Monday morning, with his family privately laying him to rest later that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teina died on Wednesday \u2013 three days after turning 40. Multiple sports clubs in West Auckland are mourning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,18919,89,51,6255,46326,1259,634,6179,5988,71,2862,78,2225,15121,111,43,139,69,1118,21522,77461,213,137548,24994,23333,28707,52047,10140,3807],"class_list":["post-563212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aged","tag-attack","tag-auckland","tag-businessman","tag-clubs","tag-community","tag-death","tag-died","tag-families","tag-from","tag-heart","tag-in","tag-loss","tag-mourning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pour","tag-rob","tag-sports","tag-stalwart","tag-sudden","tag-suddenly","tag-teina","tag-titirangi","tag-tributes","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}