RIP Patricio. How blessed your family and friends are for having you touch their lives. You fought your battle with extraordinary courage inspiring all who knew you. I'm sure you will be watching those you love from above.

Dear Patricio, Helen, Alice, Ronald, Caroline and family,

Accept our deepest sympathy and condolences for the passing away of Pato, our very good and cheerfull friend for 20 years! From the moment we met Pato, shortly after the hand over of HK it felt as part of the family and we closed him and you Patricio and Helen in our heart's. This has been the case until now and will be like that for ever! We feel privileged to have known him and have seen him being so succesfull in his private life with Alice and 3 beautiful kids but also in his wine business!! Pato is one of the most warm and caring persons we know always sharing and with a great sense of humour!! A very special person to us but also to our kids who were also all fond of him!!
It must have been heartbreaking for you all to wittness his fight to survive over the last one and a half year and keep the spirits up!!Patricio, Helen and Alice and kids being so close for so long through the process in HK. We had many telcalls all the way and sharing so many emotional moments in which you both Patricio and Helen stood so strong always spotting light at the end of the tunnel, even when the process turned out to be irreversible! I admire your strengths which helped Pato so much and brought him back on his feet. I admire Pato for his inner strenghts and fighting spirit and keeping his sense of humour!!
Now you have to say goodbye to your son, brother, husband and father!! with a constant feeling: "It is not fair!!!!" I wish you, also on behalf of Edith lots of strengths and positive energy in the coming time!
Houd je Haaks!!!
Very very best regard and an Abrazo Fuerte,
Edith and Jochum Haakma

I really looked up to him as an inspirational trade colleague, but more importantly he was a great and loyal friend. He made me feel so welcome, and an instant part of the gang when I first arrived in Hong Kong in 2003.

He was a genius at living life, and I adored him.

RIP Patricio! You will live on in all of our hearts! Love & light to Alice and children.

RIP Patricio! We celebrate your life and cherish the joyful memories you have left behind.

Patricio and I have various links in life. I remember very clearly an evening in October/November 1991, we bumped into each other in a in a bar in Lan Kwai Fung on a Friday Night. I had just arrived back from a visit to the Netherlands, i was there to interview for the Hotelschool in The Hague. I was in my A-levels year, you had already finished your IB at the French international school and were planning to take a year off. After we spoke you ended up applying to the Hotelschool and got in... you started in 92-1, I joined in 92-2. Throughout the years we bumped into each other. We were both Dutch, grew up in HK and were a Hotello( like Ronald and Caroline). I remember you as a most charming, warm and energetic guy who always had this twinkle in his eyes.. this love for life! It was contagious:) I wish all of the De La Fuente family and close friends all the strength in the world to be able to deal with this incredible loss. Xxx from Marlo in Amsterdam

So sad to hear of your passing, my deepest condolences to your family. May you rest in peace. Frenchy

Patricio and I met at a party at Chateau Du Tertre of the family of Eric Albada Jelgersma in the bordeaux wineregion in france. We instantly liked eachother and met several times all around the world. Energetic, fun, loyal and ambitious are words I could label him with. He made All of us laugh and shared his love for Good wines with us. I will miss him dearly. My thoughts are with his wife Alice, children, family and Friends. From Reims I salute you Patricio with a Nice glass of champagne. With great respect.
Willem Kool

Patricio and I met at a party at Chateau Du Tertre of the family of Eric Albada Jelgersma in the bordeaux wineregion in france. We instantly liked eachother and met several times all around the world. Energetic, fun, loyal and ambitious are words I could label him with. He made All of us laugh and shared his love for Good wines with us. I will miss him dearly. My thoughts are with his wife Alice, children, family and Friends. From Reims I salute you Patricio with a Nice glass of champagne. With great respect.
Willem Kool

Even though my time knowing Patricio has not been long, but in a very short time I was able to get to see what a bright and wonderful person he is, and how he was able to positively affect the people around him.

Thanks for being such a wonderful friend Patricio, and also in your own words, "being the biggest Shrek fan in the world!" 

You will be missed...

Goodbye Patricio De La Fuente. You were the happiest most positive person that I've ever had the privilege to know! Always straight and direct. You brought a room to life with your laughter and jokes. You did so much good in the world. And you fought to the last day, always with a smile. May you rest in peace. May you look down upon us and always bring us laughter and smiles. You will always be with us.

With fond memories on the water...and love to your family.
Farewell dear Patricio. God Bless.

Pato. Will keep our stories to myself until the kids are older. Unfortunately you won’t be able to do the same for mine. Love you brother. Thank you for the last 29 years and 10 months. You’ll be missed. Rock and Roll!

Dear Patricio, I will never forget your generosity ,your full support and integrity. May the Lord protect you. Thank you for everything.

Patrick, I will forever remember you as the fun-loving, gregarious school mate who could always make us laugh during our time at the HK French Int'l school. RIP.
Thao

I only met Patricio a couple of times when he invited Mark and I to his wine events. I was known to him as 'Madeira'. From anyone else that would have annoyed me but from Patricio it just meant he actually knew where myself and Madeira wines come from! He had a lovely knowledge and passion for his work. It was an honour to have met him.

Dear cousin we will always remember you with love and we will never forget the good times we spend as a family.
Rest in peace Patricio.

Dearest Patricio, rest assured we will continue to be part of Alice's support team. We shall never be able to go past See's Candies and not think about you. Thank you for your love and friendship. 
David & Richard

Grand Hyatt has lost one of it's nicest and kindest caller. You have never change from the day I met you at GH. Even before your passing, you never failed to say, "Grace...Patrick" whenever you call. Thank you for being so kind. May God bless your soul and may those you left behind find peace knowing you are now in God's loving arms.

Dear Patricio, what an incredibly sad day after 18 months of fighting with courage...I will always remember you as a great friend and Hong Kong industry buddy...we have shared great moments together. We will be missing such an amazing character, what an energy, what a drive and passion. And at the same time so caring and down to earth. Rest in peace my friend!! Wish all the strength and courage to Alice, your children, Ronald and all your family. Boris

My deepest condolences to the Family of my cousin Pato, his parents, brothers, wife and children.
From Chile we will accompany you with our prayer and with the affection of the De La Fuente Family.

Rest In Peace dear cousin.

RIP Patricio from Australia. Valued our time working on Stolichnaya Vodka together. Always a good man! Sincere Condolences to your family.

Dear Patrick we may have not met in a long long time but will always remember you as a fun loving person in school . My deepest condolences to the dear family .

Thank you for all what you have done Patricio. What you did in HK will never be forgotten! As specialist as professional and most of all your spirit towards life!!!
Thank you to have been such an amazing friend!
God as certainly better wines today and a great partner to drink with a smile.
RIP

I met Pato first in 1995 and eventually we ended up in similar roles; he at JJ's at Grand Hyatt and I at Club Shanghai at The Regent. While I worked in various HK hotels, Pato built his business and we saw each other often. When I joined HK Parkview to work with his father-in-law, that contact became more regular, which was fantastic. Plenty of memories of laughter, wines and great conversations. I never met an individual who was so approachable, positive, driven and who inspired so many people. It really is quite amazing when you think about that. Like me, I am sure that there are many people who looked at Pato thinking 'I wish I had a bit more of his traits' one way or the other. What a terrific and lovely, lovely guy he was. I am incredible sorry for the de la Fuente Saez and Wong families to have lost him so soon. I, too, will get on a plane tomorrow to return to HK to say good-bye to the man that has been such an inspiration to so many.

Steve Braunstein
I had the privilege of helping take care of Patricio when he was first diagnosed a year and a half ago. Although I only met him in sickness, it was clear that he was a brilliant, strong, and kind father, brother, husband, and friend to so many people. I have followed his journey on Posthope and have seen that he continued to fight and touch the lives of so many, inspiring all with his fighting spirit and stoicism. He was also so very fortunate to have tremendous support from family and friends throughout this difficulty phase of his journey. The love and support that he had so generously offered early in his life was paid back several fold and I'm sure he was so very appreciative. I offer sincere condolences to his family and hope that all that knew Patricio will share some of his spirit and joy for life in their journeys.

Missing you already Cuz. Thank you for being such an blessing in our lives. Rest in Peace.