Denis GILL Obituary

Dad,

I wish I could have been brave enough to share my thoughts, feelings and so many memories with our family and friends about you, but public speaking just isn´t for me, unlike you who thrived speaking publicly like an absolute natural. I can now see what a skill it really was. So funny, witty and genuine. You could engage a whole room!

Anyway, this is a much more comfortable way for me to express how much I will miss you & how I am trying to move forward as best I can.

Not a day has goes by recently that I don´t think about or reflect on the things you have instilled in me. I just wish I told you more often that you have always been there in the back of my mind with most decisions I´ve made in life and you will continue to be there in everything that I think, do and say always.

Missing you is an understatement. I feel lost without you but it will get better, I know it will, I have Ebs and Chris my biggest supporters each. It will just be different.
You were our patriarch, our go to guy, and most of all you always made me feel safe and loved.

I´m lucky to have been your daughter.

I hope that I made you proud.

I love you

Den, Such a big presence that could quiet any room with that whistle and get everyone´s attention. I will miss our chats and the banter we would have, thank you so much for accepting me into the family with zero judgement and backing me up when it was time to talk logic with your amazing daughter Kimberly. If I can be half the husband and father you are I would call that a success. It´s crap that you´re gone, no other way to put it. I´m glad you got to show us Aucklanders one last time that you can´t beat Wellington on a good day, I did chuckle to my self on that day knowing that was all you proving your point haha. Rest easy big man, greatly missed but will never be forgotten.

Menace... wow the stories I could tell.. it just seemed like yesterday that we gave you that nickname.. you were a kind and true gentleman. And I only saw you pissed off once .. hence the nick name ... love to Pablo and the family xx

Sad news to hear our old friend Denis, menace Gill passed away recently. Such a happy and friendly guy whom has now joined his brothers from other Mothers on their Harleys in the sky. Seemed like only yesterday he spoke at my hubby´s funeral. RIP Menace, hugs to Pablo and Family xx J9