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Gerry was born in Swindon Wilts on October 07, 1951. He is much loved and will always be remembered by all his friends and family.

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3 months ago
Maggie

Happy Christmas My Darling Gerry, I love and miss you so very much. Its not Christmas here without you. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas in heaven with your family and mine along with Di, Patch Tuppy and Satch. I hope you had a lot of fun, gifts, parties, gigs and fantastic sex. I went to John's by taxi to spend the afternoon with Jamie and his family, have dinner and lots and lots of presents. Jamie spoilt me with so many goodies and treats. I had a hamper with lots of Dove toiletries, wine and lots of goodies and treats to eat. Then Darren came with Austyn and Violet and he gave me a present's from him and Jamie. It was a new smart mobile phone, which i needed. I then went to Darren's for another Christmas dinner, and got spoilt again with lots of gifts and treats, I had a mobile phone cover, socks, baileys, a coffee set and scarf and a hot stone massage voucher along with lots of other treats. I stayed overnight and Darren brought me home on Boxing day afternoon. I then spend the rest of the day watching tv and thinking of you. I bought for a=you a lovely metal picture of you sitting playing your drums. It has colour changing lights around it. I do hope you like it. I also bought you a heartfelt card, 14 red rose and 14 coloured roses. I sent you a silver star balloon to heaven for you t read my loving heartfelt message to you. I bought two golden retriever tribute to hang on the memory tree and the Christmas tree. I also bough a small slate eith her picture and a message of her head saying Forever in our hearts, with her name and dates of her life. You bought me a lovely white winter jumper and a hoodie which is worn indoors over your clothes to keep warm. It is white with a hood and it comes down to my calf's, its super warm. Thank you so very much. I also got out one of the many t cards you gave me Yesterday we all went to the Windmill for our family get together and had a meal and lots of drinks and shots, Darren and Jamie and families exchanged Christmas present and we all had a fantastic time. I missed you so very much and hope that you were there with us. I don't want you to miss a thing. Today Austyn and Violet are coming for a sleep over and Darren, Kelly, Jamie and Lindsay are having a bongo bingo night out together. Its the first night out they have all had togehter since having their families. John is going to babysit at Jamie's. I hope all is well with you and that you are having a great Christmas. I wish you a Happy New Year. I hope to get the car fixed soon. Please can help make sure it is not a major costly repair. Until we meet again, please always remember that I always have, and always will love you forever and always. Please come and visit me in dreams so that we can make mad passionate love again. I can't wait to be in your loving arms again. All my love forever and always, Forever yours, Maggie XxX c \i love

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5 months ago
Margaret

Happy 73rd Birthday my Darling Gerry. Hope you have a great party in Heaven and that Di is by your side.All my love forever and always. Maggie XxX

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8 months ago
Maggie

Hi Gerry, I love and miss you so very much. Its 10 years ago today that you passed away and it feel as raw as if it were today. i cant stop thinking of you and wishing you were still here. I have spent the day thinking of you and the horrible heinous death you endured. You were so very brave and strong and fought the heinous cancer with such hope, strength and bravery. You did not deserve to loose the fight. Such a strong, loving, dedicated, caring, loyal and talented, artistic, creative, wise and totally gorgeous man that you always were. I struggle to comprehend why that should have happened to such a lovely person like you. I put a notice in the Evening Advertiser with a loving message to you. I bought a rose bush in your honour called Blue for You. It should be a lovely blue rose. I bought you 15 red roses, sent you balloons and released butterflies in your honour, to signify freedom for you. I held a family memorial bbq today to honour and remember you. Darren, Kelly, Austyn, Violet, Jamie, Lindsay, Isabelle, Sienna, Genevieve, John (Lindsay's dad) Barry and Sue also came. We started around 3pm and send up our balloons to you 6 in total at 3.50pm the time of your passing. We released the butterflies, which signifies the release of the spirit. We ate burgers, hot dogs, chicken legs and spare ribs, We also had cheese cake, chocolate gateau and toasted marsh mellows between two chocolate biscuits. Darren and Jamie both brought their whisky smokers and we all raised a whisky toast to you. Then the boys played Hotel California to you. I hope you were able to join us and see all your family again. You made sure the weather was good today for the occasion. I saw your Red Admiral butterfly twice this week. I am so very proud and grateful that you have come back home to see me again. You make my heart swell with love and joy when i see you. I thought i might see you today but alas it did not. I hope you are happy, free and well happily playing with our beautiful dog Di and Patch. Last night i drove to Cirencester to sing at the Candle of Hope ceremony. Its a charity event for raising money for cancer research and is held to remember and honour those we have lost to cancer. I went to honour and remember you. I sang with the Rock choir. We sang Somewhere only we now, Angels, Bridge over troubled waters and A thousand years. It was truly emotional and i crumbled and cried at the beginning. I had a job to hold myself together as I was thinking of you the whole time. I don't have much more news at the moment, but I will write again soon. Until we meet again please always remember that I always have and always will, love you forever and always. I cant wait to be in your loving arms again. All my love, forever and always. Maggie XxX

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Hi Dad, It was your Birthday yesterday (you would have turned 67). We got together at yours and Mum's house for the last BBQ of the year. The weather was great and your BBQ cooked the food up a treat! It was wet and rainy the day before, so it all came together nicely. Perfect for cooking a nice meal and sending up messages to you on our red balloons. We also watched The Muppet Show on Youtube and the infamous Buddy Rich episode that inspired your drum solo. Afterward Darren and I played Hotel California and we all raised a whisky toast to you. A Glenfiddich single malt. no less. We still get your signs, messages, jokes and words of wisdom coming through. Mum saw your butterfly on the BBQ just after she lit it and then found a small figurine in the garden that must have been lost for years. It suddenly turned up in a really easy to see place, like it had been placed there to be found. The grandchildren love their Grampy and talk about you all the time. The girls ask me to make them laugh or tickle them how Grampy used to when I was small. They particularly like 'licky licky' right in the ear or when my thumbs get stuck, right under there arms. Isabelle and Sienna are both fans of the 'Black Pudding' and will often ask to do several in a row. Last weekend I gave 2 clinics at the UK Guitar Show and Olympia, London. I could remember you taking us to all the guitar shows there when Darren and I first started playing. It felt good to have queues of people lined up to come to my sessions. I was particularly pleased to use your laptop for my backing tracks, as i saw a picture of you as I opened the computer to start each session. I knew you were watching and that everything would go to plan. And it did! I was really pleased with how they went over. Keep smiling over us, Dad. We all love feeling you nearby or bursting out laughing because we've seen something that would make you laugh. You've always been and will always be the greatest Dad ever! Happy Birthday Dad love Jamie XxX
jamie
8th October 2018
Hi Dad, It was my 40th birthday last Saturday. I can't believe I am 40 already. Seems only a short time ago you were carrying my new chrome snare drum into Wroughton Junior school for my 'show and tell' I thought about you a lot (I always think about you). The Sunday before I went to see Kiss in Birmingham, they were amazing and incredible show! Then Kelly surprised me with a trip to Amsterdam. I kept thinking about my stag do in Prague and how we were all still together. We went to the Hard Rock Cafe and had a meal one night and the music made me realize that you and I are still connected. Last Saturday we went for a meal with mum, Brent and Jamie's family. The kids are all growing up so fast and I know how proud you would be of them all. I had some amazing presents. Mum got me some news headlines of when I was born, I didn't realize that Hotel California was topping the charts in 1977.......... still brings the house down when i play it at gigs........... still get a twinge in my heart and a tear in my eye when I play it too. I hope you can still hear me sing it for you. Jamie has arranged another surprise trip to London soon where we can visit our old haunts, I know that you will be missed and talked about a great deal while we are there. I managed to convert a marching drum into a base for mums memory tree. It looks amazing and I even got a special light to go inside to make it look even more magical. I always knew you wanted a 'proper' marching drum! I really hope you like it. Jamie and I are still busy working on your charity concert in October. It has stirred a massive interest among many people who followed the band and who knew you. We are all really looking forward to it! I am also working on a Shadows Tribute show called 'One Shadow'. Your tribute guitar again has caused such a stir that I feels right to have a show dedicated to playing it. Like I said, we are still very much connected through music and to be able to play the guitar that was bought solely to represent you, my dad...... is a real honor! Thank you for still guiding me, helping me and being the voice in my head driving me forward. We all miss you and hope that you can still feel our love coming your way. Darren xXx
Darren
6th June 2017
Happy New Year dad! We all had a great Christmas. The kids are the perfect age to really get into the Christmas spirit. Austyn talks about you a lot and asks about you. Violet also talks about you and seems to enjoy playing drums even more than Austyn! They are both amazing children and I feel so sad that they can't show you themselves how funny and entertaining they can both be. It reminds me of all the Christmas's we had together growing up. They seemed to get more and more magical and exciting each year! Thank you so much for your generous gift. I have been thinking for a long time that I would really like to own something that would honor your memory. My first love of playing my guitar was the Shadows. It was hear you encouraged me to keep going and listening and learning their music. You would even play drums in my old room to me playing Apache, FBI, Rise and Fall of Flingle Bunt (one of your favorites) on my 3/4 size acoustic guitar. From that moment on, I always dreamed of owning a Fiesta Red Fender Stratocaster. Well, I found one. It's a Fender Custom Shop 56 NOS. 56 being the year is is modeled on and the neck............ birdseye maple......... REALLY stunning to look at! Gold hardware and just oozes sheer class. It's pretty much the best Fender guitar they have ever made. I can hear your voice in my mind saying "If ya gonna do it, go for the DOGS BOLLOX son!". For me, this guitar represents the roots of my guitar playing and of the close family unit that helped nurture and craft me as a professional musician. Without yours, mums and Jamie's guidance I really don't know where I would be right now. So when my guitar arrives (not actually received it yet lol) It's gonna be an emotionally charged moment. This guitar represents jamming in my bedroom, Wipeout, the London years, SHRED and everything else we shared together both musically and all the other parts of our lives. You could also say it's a 'Santa' colored guitar, so will represent all our Christmas's and other magical moments we shared together.......... and just like Jamie said.. You were the BEST Father Christmas EVER........... and you were! Thank you so much dad for everything you have done and continue to do for me. Please don't stop sending messages and signs. We all really need and appreciate them. Your eternally grateful son. Darren XxX
Darren
2nd January 2017

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Hi Gerry, I love and miss you so very much. Its the first of April 2025 today. The sun is shining and its s been a lovely few days weather wise. I think spring has finally arrived. The garden is coming to life again with the flowers emerging. It has been a very busy weekend. It was Darren and Kelly,s 17th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, and Sunday was Isabell's 13th birthday and my 73rd birthday. It was also Mother's Day as well as the day the clocks moved forward. That meant we lost an hours sleep. On Saturday Jamie visited me with two lovely lovely juicy steaks, some new potatoes in their jackets and a salad bowl as well as a lovely bottle of red wine. He then cooked it for us and we added some mushrooms. It was a truly fabulous meal. He also bought me a a birthday card, mothers day card, a bouquet of flowers, a box of chocolates, a fruit and nut chocolate bar a peanut brittle bar and a chocolate nougat bar, s well as a new set of car mats for my new car. We had a lovely few hours together. I gave him Isabelle's present to take home. Then he drove me to Darren's who took me to see Violet doing her singing performance at the Commonweal School. She was amazing as usual. On Sunday Jamie did a video call to me so that Isabelle could open her present while i watched she loved her presents. We gave her a handbag, a set of earing's, a bracelet some chocolates and some perfume sprays and put £20 in her bank account. Darren collected me during the afternoon and took me to his house and he cooked me his famous lasagna. It was utterly delicious, and washed down with a fabulous red wine. He then presented me with a lovely chocolate birthday cake which Austyn and Violet had decorated. The Darren gave me a birthday cars, mother'say card and one from /Austyn and Violet. A lovely yellow rose bush in a pot as a house plant, a huge chocolate orange Toblerone, a bottle of wine, and jointly form him and Jamie a new coffee machine as ours had stopped working and a new cover for the MX5 as the current one is shredded to bits by the wind. All in all it was a wonderful weekend. I love and miss you and Di so very much. I wish with all my heart, body and soul that you were still here. I hope you are having a great new life in heaven and that you are able to fulfill our your dreams. I am going to watch Darren on Saturday as he is playing at the Wroughton Working Mans Club, I hope you come too. Jamie is off to Denmark on Friday to do a gig with another band and then o Sunday he is going to Berlin for a week with ESP. I hope you go too and have an amazing time. Please bring him home safe. I don't have much more news at the moment but i will write again soon. Please always remember that i always have, and always will , love you forever and always. I can't wait to be in your loving arms again. All my love forever and always, Maggie XxX We then sat and watched the photos of our trip to Disney land and had a bottle of champagne. Darren ordered and paid for a taxi to get me home. Our sons did me proud.
Lit by Maggie on 1st April 2025
HI Gerry, I love and miss you so very much. Its the 5th March today and the sun is shining at last. I has been sunny since Sunday 2nd March. Jamie's 45th Birthday. I hope you were able to join us on Sunday when we all gathered at the Churchill Pub and restaurant in Wootton Basset. We all arrive at 1.30pm both Darren and Jamie's families, along with Daniel, Clair and John and me. We all had a family sunday roast and gave Jamie his presents. We gave him a set of in ear headphones and a c=attachment for his hoover to clean his new car. We also gave him two rump steaks and a bottle of res wine and put £50 into his bank account. Darren gave him tow pack of special beer and a dvd which he wanted. We all had a great time but i kept thinking of you the whole time. You should have been there with us but I hope you were there in spirit with us. I also kept thinking of the event of the day he was born. Oh how i wish we could put back time to those wonderful days. Everyone came out to look at my car when we left. They all liked it. I forgot to tell you that i kept your personalised number plates so that i can put they on it when its time for the insurance renewal. Everyone is doing well at the moment although Kelly is having a lot of car trouble at the moment and will need to replace it as soon as she get the money from her Dad's bungalow . Jamie had a scare yesterday when BIMM has a bomb scare and they were all sent home early. I do hope everything is ok now. The grandchildren are doing well although Violet sadly is not doing so well with her competitions at the moment. I am trying to sum up the enthusiasm to star decanting and decluttering the wardrobes and draws at the moment. I keep trying and then putting everything back again. I wish you were here to help me. You would have done it years ago. Please help me to do this as it is getting me very depressed. I have been busy in the garden during this nice weather, I have filled up the green bun and the green bag so I am at a bit of a standstill until the bin gets emptied next Tuesday. I di get the cherry tree chopped down a bit a couple of weeks ago and the wisteria hand over the bi-fold doors in the lounge. I don't have much more news at the moment but please always remember that i always have, and always will, love you forever and always. I hate this life without you. I keep thinking of all the things we would be doing if you were here. Going on exotic holiday, going on cruises, going on harmony breaks and city breaks and mini breaks in this country. I hate every minute without you. I hope you and Di are having a great time in heaven with Satch, Tuppy and Patch. I miss your loving arms around me, your smile, your laughter and your love. I miss you with every breath i take, every heartbeat and you live in my heart, head and thoughts all the time. I can't wait to be in your loving arms again. All my love forever and always, Maggie XxX
Lit by Maggie on 5th March 2025
Happy Valentines Day My Darling Gerry, I love and miss you with all my heart, body and soul. I have been thinking of you all day today as i do everyday. Do you remember the Valentines Day we spent on our first holiday in the Maldives. We were in Summer Island and it was amazing. It was so romantic having our special day there. We had a delicious candlelit meal on the beech and our bed was covered in roses when we returned to our room. It was s truly special day that I will never forget. We always celebrated our love for each other on that special day. You always treated me like a goddess and spoilt me rotten every year. With flowers, cards, chocolates and romantic meals out. We had such a fabulous life together and we always made mad passionate love. Oh how I wish you were still here. I want, need, love and miss you so very much. I bought you a lovely heartfelt card declaring my undying love for you, I bought you 20 red roses and some pink spray carnations. I sent you up a red heart shaped balloon with my loving message to you. I put up one of your Valentines cards you sent me. I hope you remember me with love and pride, and know how much I love and miss you. Jamie came over last night to teach a student and we had spaghetti bolognaise for dinner. We some time together and had a glass of wine together. Darren came over today and bought me a bunch of tulips and some chocolate mini eggs. He then took me to Specsavers over at Sainsburys in Stratton. I had stupidly and accidentally stood on my glasses last night and one of the lenses had dropped out. They managed to fix them for me and also fix another pair where both lenses had dropped out. I was so grateful and relieved that he took me as i only had old glasses with old prescriptions to wear and I was worried about driving on them. We then went over to the Windmill and had lunch there. We both had the hunters chicken and I had a diet coke and Darren had a non alcoholic Guinness. It is still dreadfully cold here and its getting everyone down now as it has been horrible weather for about 5 months now and there is no end in sight. My new car appears to be going well now, but it is drinking petrol and and alarming rate. I should have stuck to a diesel car. I did not realise there would be such a difference. I hope all is well in your world and that yo are having and amazing life. I do hope o have Di, Patch, Satch and Tuppy with you. I hope you are pursuing all you hobbies and playing those drums as often as you wish. Your drum solos are legendary and you are so greatly missed. The kids broke up today for half term and they all have amazing experiences to look forward to next week. I am going to watch Violet on Sunday doing her dancing competition at the Commonweal School, and again next Thursday. I hope you are there too and help her to win. Isabelle is doing a Theatre workshop and will be in a play next Wednesday at the Art Centre. I do hope you will be there to watch her. I will sign off now and write again soon when I have more news. Please always remember that I always have, and always will love you forever and always. I cant wait to be in your loving arms again. Maybe you can visit me in my dreams tonight so that we can make mad passionate love again as we always did on Valentines Day. All my love forever and always, Maggie XxX
Lit by Maggie on 14th February 2025

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