"My dad meant the world to me and my family. He had such a big heart.
"At the hospice, someone spoke to him about wills and funerals. After that, he told me he had looked up ‘reasonably priced funeral directors’ and found the Poppy’s website.
"It was the name first of all, the same as my daughter’s. I also think the fact that Poppy’s is a small business would have been really important to him. He didn't like anything big and corporate. He would have been pleased that it was Poppy’s who looked after him.
"He was brought up a Catholic. I think he had a sense of God or something at work in the world that was bigger than him, but he hadn't gone to church for a long time. Victoria, our funeral director, put us in touch with a priest, Father Kevin, for a Catholic funeral service.
"We chose the readings and my dad's sister wrote the bidding prayers. My daughter read a poem. My brother and I did the eulogy. It came together perfectly."
Katie, Vincent's daughter