Tommy Keller

On the 07/08/2024 our lives were changed forever when our dad Tom passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a brief illness. We are all still in shock and trying to work out how to put ourselves back together and carry on with a big Dad shaped hole in our lives.

Tom was a husband, a father, a grandparent, a son, an uncle, and a friend to many. I can only imagine what he would say if he had any idea of the pain we are all feeling at loosing him. Mum and dad were together for nearly 45 years, joined at the hip and now mum has to work out how to navigate a world without dad's constant presents and reassurance beside her. He was never one for grand gesture's or big emotions, dad's way of showing he cared was to find some way to help others in a practical way. We know at times like this is it is really hard to know what to do or say. Dad's biggest worry had he known what was going to happen would be that mum would be looked after and that she wouldn't struggle financially. The few times he did talk about it, He would tell us not to spend money on a service for him but of course we are going to celebrate him, because how can we not. This horrible situation has rocked our whole foundation, and it will take a long time to figure out how to go on without dad.

We know that lots of friends and family would like to join us to celebrate him, and have been asking what they can do to help in some way and this was the best we can think of to help out mum. Any funds raised will go towards the cost of a service worthy of dad, with any additional funds going towards helping mum cover costs like rent and bills and even just giving her time off from work to be able to grieve in her own time and not worry about what next until she need's too.

We would like to thank you for your generosity, your care and compassion, and your love during what is a really horrible time for us all. Nothing will ever replace dad, but having the support of friends and family reassures us all that we are not doing this alone.

On behalf of Donna, the 4 Keller kids, our partners and Dad's 6 grand kids. We thank you all.

Love each other and hold each other tight always, You never know what tomorrow will bring.

We will be holding a service for dad at Ingregity Chapel 18 Tonga Place Parkwood at 1PM on Friday the 23.08.2024