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COLLINS, Felix, aged 41.
Died suddenly in London, 29 April.
Infinitely loved big brother of Liz and Jane and dearly loved son of Fay Gordon and John Collins (deceased). The world’s best uncle to Emilia and Alice and treasured partner of Elizabeth Day. Adored friend of so many around the world.
Your best years were yet to come.
Aroha mai, aroha atu
Love towards us, love going out from us.
A service will be held at 12pm Wednesday 18 May. The Pines, 50 The Esplanade, Houghton Bay, Wellington.
Messages and tributes may be left in Felix's tribute book below or posted to "the Collins family"C/- PO Box 44-176 Lower Hutt
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Neurological Foundation would be appreciated. This is to support the funding of research into motor neurone disease, the cause of Felix’s father’s death.
Donations can be made at the service, or posted to Neurological Foundation, PO Box 110022, Auckland Hospital, Auckland 1148. Please include Felix’s details if making an online donation via www.neurological.org.nz.
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Felix
You were my firstborn and my only boy so you will always be special to me.
You were a lively, happy, mischievous little boy and you developed a great sense of humour and loved playing practical jokes.
You always had lots of friends and were always very loyal and supportive.
The outdoors played a big part in your life; in your love of nature and love of playing rugby, cricket and soccer and watching your beloved All Blacks.
We have so many happy memories as a family.
I love you very very much and will always mourn your loss.
Fay
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To My Darling Felix
A part of my heart will be forever yours and I will think of you constantly. With time I hope that it can be with a smile on my face as you made me laugh like nobody else can.
I am grieving for the times we shared and the future we had ahead of us.
I was so very proud of you and to be your partner. I delighted in watching and listening to you entertain a group of people with your wonderful story telling or with your fantastic cooking.
The cards and messages I have received show me how much you were loved by everybody that met you and I am so very sorry that this is something that you could not see for yourself.
I fell in love with your beautiful heart, your strength and your sense of humour and losing you has left a massive hole in my life and in the lives of so many others.
You will be kept alive in the memories of all who loved you.
'Love you muchly'
Elizabeth xxx
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My dearest bro.
There is a deep hole inside my soul that can never be filled up. I know that the shock of your death and the pain I feel now is always going to be with me. You are so much more to me than my loving, sweet and laughing big brother. You are a part of me, a huge part, and that has died with you.
In life my every second thought was with you; the journey that we were travelling on together, the run of the mill inanity of daily life that I would share with you, and you with me, in a drawn out anecdote to make us fall about in tears of laughter. That is gone. All gone. And I can never laugh the same, because I will always want to be able to share the joke and the story with you.
My future had you in it. My hopes and expectations of watching my daughters grow up with the nieces and nephews I will now never get to meet, they have to go. But I know you would need me to be strong and that you are proud of me for being able to face the day.
Until we laugh again,
Liz (aka Pania)
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Uncle Felix
You were the best uncle in the world, and you could of never been a better uncle. You were very very cool and the coolest person in the world. You were very funny. We will miss you a trillion, zillion. We love you always.
Kisses and hugs,
Emilia and Alice
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My big brother
Life will never be the same without you. In the last 3 years of you living in London we had become closer than ever before and I was feeling like I had got to know my big brother so much more. You are one of the nicest, kindest, funniest, loving and most genuine people I could ever hope to meet in this lifetime. I feel incredibly lucky to have had you for my big brother. You are one in a million Felix Collins, one of the real people.
I am so lost for words to describe the heartache that has taken over since you have gone.
You were and will continue to be the only person to get away with calling me 'Janet' or 'Janice'.
For Fe
Growing up in the bay of plenty
next to the deep blue sea,
Punching me on the arm everyday
filled my big brother with glee.
Diving with dad at Omaio
catching paua and crays,
Eating mum's scotch eggs
and laughing at your funny old ways.
Surfing big waves and hunting for possums
catching brown trout for our kai,
Were just some of your talents that you truly loved
our respect for you is so high.
Teasing and fighting for siblings is normal
and something they quite often do,
But it never got in the way of our friendship
and loving you through and through.
More recent times in our whanau
Emilia and Alice, a wonderful uncle they did own,
Watching you all together
a happier world they could never have known.
Your flesh will dissolve and spirit evolve
and sit nestled constantly on my shoulder,
Looking down at everything that I do
and my own spirit itself will grow bolder.
I love you my dear Felix
nothing on this earth could ever replace,
That amazing smile and wicked laugh
impossible to erase.
So farewell for now my brother
carpe diem wherever you go
Please remember what ever you are doing
I love you more than you will ever know.
By 'Janet'
Harbour City Funeral Home
Lower Hutt - Upper Hutt - Wellington
Members of the Funeral Directors Association of NZ
Service Information:
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18/05/2011
12:00 p.m.
The Pines
50 The Esplanade
Houghton Bay
Wellington
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