At 8:35 on the morning of Wednesday 20th Dec Dave gained his angel wings
We were all with him holding him tightly
He’s taken a piece of our hearts with him 🕊✨🌈
‘’ How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard”
Grief after all is the price we pay for love ❤️
This is what I want in Heaven
For words to become notes
Conversations to be symphonies. 🎶
We know he’s now at peace and will be looking over us always listening to all the very best music
Forever riding on a crest of a wave 🌊
Now the time has come to bring down the curtain 🎭
Husband 💖
Dad 💙💗
Grandad 🤍🖤💜💙
Skip 💚
Grumpy 💛
If there ever comes a day
When we can’t be together
Keep me in your heart
I’ll stay there forever ❤️
He changed and enriched the lives of so many children, young adults, pack leaders and so many more.
And really was simply the best, better than all the rest
If we could write a story it would be the greatest ever told of a kind and loving man who had a heart of gold. 💛
You will remain in our hearts and memories always
We will love you forever
On the day the dress code is no black, no uniforms but red Gangshow scarfs can we worn.
Only family flowers, everyone else can bring one flower to lay on top of the coffin while leaving after the service, the curtain will remain open so you can walk by and say “see you again on the other side” or just reflect for a moment or two.
We will also be adding a live feed so friends and loved ones near and far who can’t attend can feel part of the service and be with us all in spirit and pay their respects, and again say goodbye or just have a moment or two to reflect on the memories made and shared with us all.
The service will of course be full of music because that was his biggest love after his family, and lots of pictures of his life, we want to celebrate his life and remember all the good times and memories made. As well as giving Dave/Dad the best send off. 🎉
Please add pictures and leave messages of condolence, add a poem, share a memory or whatever you would like to share. This will all bring mum comfort over the coming months.
The funeral details are on this page and the wake after will be held at the village club in Norton Fitzwarren. If you could kindly tick if you are attending the funeral, wake or both just so we have a rough idea of numbers. Many thanks.
For those wishing to join the service online please visit https://watch.obitus.com
USERNAME fuji0517
PIN 943074
I promise to keep going, enjoying life, keep looking up, looking for beauty in everything and most importantly keep on making you proud. I always was and always will be a Daddy’s little girl. I love and miss you so very much Dad xxx
You will never be forgotten and will forever be in our thoughts and hearts ♥️ now and always 🌟
I found this little beauty on a bad day it made my heart smile 🥰 I know it was you ✨
You leave me feathers 🪶 and I have a Robin and mum Has butterflies 🦋 and she had a little yellow one with her every day on holiday, even when out on a boat trip for the day, one lands on her back, and even came out of her handbag 💛
🫶🏻
Thank you for all the feathers you keep leaving me 🪽
This is just something I woke up with stuck in my mind and it seems fitting for here.....
As I write from the celestial realms, know that my spirit dances alongside you. The veil between worlds is thin, and I watch as you navigate life's tapestry.
Live, my girl, daddy's little girl. Not merely exist, but live. Breathe in the dawn's promise, taste the rain on your lips, and let laughter ripple through your soul. For in your joy, I find solace.
Follow your dreams, as constellations guide sailors across uncharted seas. Chase sunsets, paint with abandon, and write stories that echo through time.
Your dreams are my legacy-the ink of our shared existence.
Remember our whispered promises-the ones etched in stardust. I am the wind that tousles your hair, the warmth in sun-kissed mornings. When doubt creeps, listen to the rustling leaves-they carry my encouragement.
And when the night sky weaves its cosmic quilt, look up. I am the brightest star-the one that winks, saying, "I am here." Our love transcends earthly bounds; it's the melody that lingers after the song ends.
Live, dream, love. For in your living, my soul finds purpose. And when your journey leads you home, I'll be waiting-arms wide, heart aglow.
With eternal love ✨
This little Robin at work watches and follows me around all day and even talks to me now ♥️
This would be my only wish ✨💖
You were with us in spirit singing and dancing along 🎶
I took your seat Dad I went and got there signatures and explained everything and they gave me a hug 🥰 a very special night x
Dandelion fairies 🧚 full of rainbow's 🌈 perfection ✨
“…Maybe instead of learning how to live without you, I’ll just bring the best of you with me.
Maybe we're not meant to move on, we're meant to move with.”
- J. Raymond
To me this is the money line.
This is what I learned to do and it made all the difference in my grief story.
A small section from The Best of You
And I think this small section sums up everything I need to know ✨🤍♥️
ANGELS
I like to think angels pull souls from their bodies, before pain and tragedy strike. Wrapping them in their loving arms, pressing their eyes and ears against soft wing, so they see no evil, hear no evil and know no earthly suffering. Only love, only safety, only peace. I think, no matter how they leave us, they are protected as they go. And whilst I cannot give you proof, just like I cannot show you the invisible power that is hope, or love…I feel it to be true. Just like I feel, no I know, that people live on, that love lives on…long after the angels lift us up and take us home. I will keep living for the both of us I promise ♥️
Happy heavenly 6 months Dad , I promise I will continue making you proud. I know we are still together I am in you and you are in me. Keeping shinning bright like a diamond 💎 so I can always find you ✨ I love you with all my heart, and miss you so much
Oh my goodness I can’t believe this! I got this book for my Dad last year and this evening I opened it on page 111 Where ever I go ✨ could this be the connection with the song, was this the poem you went to most. Lifted my spirits & made my heart spike ❤
Happy heavenly 4 months Dad ❤️I found this picture at Ed’s last week and he kindly let me have it. The only one I have with you & Grandad in, & with it being his 10 anniversary in heaven I found this picture rather fitting. I love & miss you beyond word ✨
Dad tonight we are going as a family to watch the Taunton Gangshow that you started. I know you will be with us in spirit. And up on the stage singling along with the gang 🎶🪽✨🎭🎼🎬⚜️
And my heart ❤️ is full of love and pride and I have a lifetime of stories to share ✨🪽 love and miss you Dad xxx
Thank you for this beauty Dad 🌈✨ absolute perfection 💞
I want to smile again, without feeling guilty.
I want to miss you, without coming undone.
I want to celebrate your life,
without my heart breaking.
If there’s a good side of grief, I’ve yet to reach it. It’s not getting any easier. Time isn’t helping. Some days I feel as if the pain deepens.
The roads ahead seem longer without you walking them beside me.
It’s like I’m resistant to joy.
Pushing back against my own happiness.
I’m afraid that healing means forgetting,
and I’m not ready to leave.
Let me sit here for a little while longer.
There are things I needed to tell you
that I never got the chance to.
Things you deserved to hear....
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry for not doing more.
If it was possible to bear your pain,
I would have.
Even when distant, my world was better because you were in it.
I was always proud of you.
My love for you is constant,
unconditional, eternal.
There are pieces of you I’m discovering in me. Little gifts you unknowingly left behind.
Even your absence is filled with moments worth revisiting.
Maybe instead of learning how to live without you, I’ll just bring the best of you with me.
Maybe we're not meant to move on,
we're meant to move with.
Hi Dad 🥰 we’ve actually found your favourite flower the snowdrop that has a face on & it's actually called Grumpy 💖 your Gangshow nickname But all it does is make me smile 😊 what a beautiful little flower 🤍 Shine ✨ bright like the diamond 💎 you are
LISTEN FOR ME
Listen for me in the music in the songs we held so dear I'll find a way to play them so you will feel me near
each verse will lift your spirits embrace your weary soul each word my soul is sending to help you feel more whole
listen for me in the music and nature's music too
the birds will sing my message they'll chorus my love for you
the wind will play the trees as you are walking by if you listen very closely my heart's in every sigh listen for me my love
I'll find a million ways to whisper in your ear that I'm not so far away.
You are forever with me Dad in my heart, my thoughts, watching over me and still guiding me.
Keep leaving me signs 🌈 🎶 🪶 🩵 (orbs) and watching over me.
Love you with all my heart ❤️
I can’t believe it’s 3 months this week since you gained your angel wings 🪽 I miss your voice, I miss your smile, I miss your hugs, I miss having our discussions, I miss that smirk. I miss you so very much Dad ♥️ you are so very loved 🥰 xxx
Happy Heavenly Birthday 🎁 my love
Here is a gift 💝 from me to you for the charity that meant so much to you. I carry you in my heart ❤️ always. And my love for you reaches beyond on the moon and more than all the stars ✨
Shine bright my love
Forever yours Jackie xxx
I promise to keep going, enjoying life, keep looking up, looking for beauty in everything and most importantly keep on making you proud. I always was and always will be a Daddy’s little girl. I love and miss you so very much Dad xxx
You will never be forgotten and will forever be in our thoughts and hearts ♥️ now and always 🌟
I found this little beauty on a bad day it made my heart smile 🥰 I know it was you ✨
You leave me feathers 🪶 and I have a Robin and mum Has butterflies 🦋 and she had a little yellow one with her every day on holiday, even when out on a boat trip for the day, one lands on her back, and even came out of her handbag 💛
🫶🏻
Thank you for all the feathers you keep leaving me 🪽
This little Robin at work watches and follows me around all day and even talks to me now ♥️
This would be my only wish ✨💖
You were with us in spirit singing and dancing along 🎶
I took your seat Dad I went and got there signatures and explained everything and they gave me a hug 🥰 a very special night x
Dandelion fairies 🧚 full of rainbow's 🌈 perfection ✨
Happy heavenly 6 months Dad , I promise I will continue making you proud. I know we are still together I am in you and you are in me. Keeping shinning bright like a diamond 💎 so I can always find you ✨ I love you with all my heart, and miss you so much
Oh my goodness I can’t believe this! I got this book for my Dad last year and this evening I opened it on page 111 Where ever I go ✨ could this be the connection with the song, was this the poem you went to most. Lifted my spirits & made my heart spike ❤
Happy heavenly 4 months Dad ❤️I found this picture at Ed’s last week and he kindly let me have it. The only one I have with you & Grandad in, & with it being his 10 anniversary in heaven I found this picture rather fitting. I love & miss you beyond word ✨
Dad tonight we are going as a family to watch the Taunton Gangshow that you started. I know you will be with us in spirit. And up on the stage singling along with the gang 🎶🪽✨🎭🎼🎬⚜️
And my heart ❤️ is full of love and pride and I have a lifetime of stories to share ✨🪽 love and miss you Dad xxx
Thank you for this beauty Dad 🌈✨ absolute perfection 💞
Hi Dad 🥰 we’ve actually found your favourite flower the snowdrop that has a face on & it's actually called Grumpy 💖 your Gangshow nickname But all it does is make me smile 😊 what a beautiful little flower 🤍 Shine ✨ bright like the diamond 💎 you are
I can’t believe it’s 3 months this week since you gained your angel wings 🪽 I miss your voice, I miss your smile, I miss your hugs, I miss having our discussions, I miss that smirk. I miss you so very much Dad ♥️ you are so very loved 🥰 xxx
We all went to snowdrop valley yesterday for you Dad 🤍 you were very much in our hearts and thoughts and I think you stopped by to say hello when the sky turned blue and the sun ☀️ came beaming down ✨ we love you xxx
Hi Dad, happy heavenly birthday 🤍 I hope you are having a party 🥳 up there and listening to all your favourite music 🎶 singing away & tapping those feet ♥️ I will eat your birthday wine gums 💝 you are in our hearts & thoughts as always, shine bright ✨
I know I’ve got this! Even though right now it just feels I’m just making it through each day. Love ❤️ and miss you so very much Dad ✨
♥️
And your story wasn't finished yet. There were many pages and chapters that should have been left to write. it wasn't supposed to end this way. I am really struggling this week I really miss you Dad 😔 ✨🤍🌟
Beyond forever ♥️ Oh Dad what I would give for a hug right now 💞 My bright shining star ✨
The stars ✨ have called you home Dad 🌟 Goodnight sleep well 💫
It's the badge of the scout in the Army because he shows the way: so to a peace Scout shows the way in doing his duty and helping others. ' Baden-Powell renamed the symbol after the heraldic fleu - de - lis a stylised lily symbolic of peace and purity⚜️
The Scout Promise On my honour, I promise that I will do my best to do my duty to God and to The King, to help other people and to keep the Scout Law. Scouts ⚜️
Grandad and Paige ♥️
Grandad and Paige 💖
Grandad and Paige 💞
"But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people." Lord Baden Powell Scouts often describe someone who has died as having “gone home” by using the tracking symbol ⚜️
Snowflakes are kisses from the ones we love who are now in heaven. ❄️ This evening it started snowing, I know it was you Dad 🌟 come to cheer me up. Just like every snowflake is unique, so were you, one of a kind. How lucky was I to get to call you Dad 💛
A beautiful picture of my parents with Jayden & Paige ♥️
🤍✨🪽🕊️🎶💞
I went to see Dad yesterday 🤍 he looked so peaceful, made me miss him even more if that’s possible. I left him with keepsakes and private letters from us all along with his treasured lord of the rings book, family pictures, and a packet of wine gums ✨🪽
At the gang show.
At a cub camp
Jayden helping his grandad in the garden ♥️
Dad & Nan’s joint birthday party 🥳 Dad 70 & Nan 90 with our 4 children Lauren, Bailey, Jayden & Paige 🥰 precious memories 💞
Dad around 18 months old ♥️ the most blonde Curley hair with thr most beautiful smile 🥰
Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can't we just go back to page one and start all over again? Sorry, Pooh, but all stories have an ending, you know. Oh, bother said Pooh 🤍
You were my here, biggest supporter, told me to stand up with what I believed in even if that did get me in trouble. you showed me how to love unconditionally. Now you will be my shining light & I will leave the window cracked open for you to come & go 💫
This is where I will find you now 🤍 Hidden beneath the laughter is a sadness that I will live with for the rest of my life. This is the scar of grief. After all grief is the price we pay for love 🤍
Dad I found you some snowdrops! Not just any kinda of snowdrops either, a variety of different kinds. I’ve made two posies up one for you to hold onto and I’m pressing the other posy for mum to hold onto until you are together again. 🤍
Debenhams May 1993.
Happy Heavenly New Year Dad 🤍 I hope you are having a fabulous party up there and singing and dancing away ✨ and having a cheeky Jack Daniel’s or two 🥰 Love you with all my heart and miss you so very much ♥️
Found this picture of Dad yesterday while sorted through a folder of documents. Made my heart smile 🥰
A beautiful double rainbow 🌈 over Minehead yesterday ✨ I know that’s you Dad letting us know you are okay and you always knew rainbows made me smile 🥰 Thank you for making my heart ❤️ smile and that you are watching over us 🌟 xxx
Dave wetting himself laughing as Jackie directed my dad backwards until he fell over 🤣
Will always remember Dave making these children laugh and smile with his song. He taught them all of the actions despite the fact they couldn't speak a word of the same language.
Dave on holiday with us all in Kenya.
Family holiday memories with Dave on a glass bottom boat in Kenya.
OH DAD THIS IS HOW I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU, DEFINITELY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PICTURES OF YOU. MISSING YOU SO VERY MUCH 💔 BUT I KNOW YOU ARE AT PEACE NOW. WHENEVER I’M FEELING SAD I’LL LOOK AT THIS PICTURE 🥰
Oh DAD HOW I’M GOING TO MISS THIS SMILE 😊 THIS IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE PICTURE OF YOU. THIS SUMS YOU UP PERFECTLY. MISSING YOU SO VERY MUCH 💔 But I KNOW YOU ARE AT PEACE NOW.
Mum and Dad on their honeymoon in London ♥️
A picture I took last year visiting Snow Drop Valley. Snowdrops were dad’s favourite flowers ♥️
Lauren our letter boxing on Dartmoor with her Grandad ♥️
Comments