I have many precious memories of this special man. Here are just a few…
Garry’s unrelenting optimism - whether for his golf game, his beloved Pies, a business sale, or a successful fishing trip (I never witnessed a caught fish, but it didn’t seem to matter).
His openly affectionate love of dogs, his focussed culinary expertise to produce an extra-hot curry that could only be accompanied with a fulsome shiraz or a buttery chardy, his country driving adventures, and his long-held blissful memories of canoeing the Murray River Marathon (he insisted on carrying those canoes around from place to place for decades afterwards).
Mostly, I remember Garry’s prolific and diverse social engagement sessions - with Uncle Ron at Box Hill, with ‘his tribe’ at Mount Evelyn footy club, with regulars at his local, with former business colleagues turned life long friends over a lunch time quiz, with extended family and step-family, with those he met walking Nina – the list goes on.
I am so grateful for having known Garry, and I will miss him.
My sincere condolences to Garry’s family whom he loved dearly - to Glad, Di and Ron, Jenny and John, Peter and Ronny. To Garry’s beautiful children Joel Carly Bec and Liz - he was so proud of you - my heart goes out to you. Garry lives on in you and your children, in your kindness, cleverness and laughter. To Robyn and Ivana, my thoughts and sympathies are with you at this sad time.
Garry was one of a kind. It was impossible not to smile with him in the room.
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