Read more: Diners evacuated from busy Plymouth restaurant and barHeartbroken by his death, Ellie said: "We thought he would live forever.
He had prostate cancer for a long time but he was 93 and he was tired and his time had come. "He was like a little local celebrity of Plymouth it seems because so many people knew him.
Everywhere we went people would say hello to him. He was always getting stopped by random people, especially when walking through town. "He was really loving and would do anything for anybody.
But he never wanted to accept help himself. He was very independent and stubborn. "He and my daughter Illice were inseparable.
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