Gary,
I will try to be succinct as you are a man about which one could write a great deal.
In short:
I thank you for welcoming me so openly into your family and agreeing to let me marry your beautiful daughter Kristi - particularly when you knew this destined you and Charlotte to live apart from her
I thank you for all the chats we have had over the past 15 years on topics as serious as religion and football (which really are very similar where I come from), as well as slightly less serious topics such as work and family
I thank you for showing me what a fantastic father looks like and how one should act (I cannot express how lucky I am to have had two fantastic fathers in this respect)
I thank you for showing me how to love so strongly - not only for your children and wife but also for your extended family, including myself, as well
I thank you for your general wisdom and guidance and for all the memories of you that we will cherish for all our days
And finally, I thank you for simply being my friend - I truly love you Gary and whilst like many I will miss you so terribly, I know that I am blessed to have had you in my life
From your three loving grandsons (Turner, Caleb and Elias) and myself in Australia.
Love,
Tim