Daddy, From my first breath Until your last Our time filled with joy We had such a blast The wonderful days That forever i’ll cherish And though you’ve moved on The memories won’t perish You made me laugh You made me cry Now my brightest star That lights up the sky You taught me things To help me through life From cradle to classroom From waitress to wife In our garden i’d learn To sand and to paint To use hammer and nails As you sheltered my wheelbarrow From troublesome gales I’d sit on our doorstep Each friday night Waiting for you To hold me tight You’d make up stories And have my mind spun Our weekends together Filled with adventure and fun From a dad to a friend My true inspiration Always on hand With random information We’d laugh and say You were set in your ways But always there through our darkest hours And most difficult days You’d play ‘Free Bird’ forever For hours on repeat So loud that the chorus Could be heard from the street We’d listen to Rory, Eric and Van As you’d welcome us into Your musical bubble And The Beatles To carry us through Our times of trouble Caring for you Has been my greatest pleasure And our final moments I’ll always treasure You didn’t want to leave me But i’ll be ok Because i know in my heart We’ll meet again One day.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Dale. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.