Words from his funeral

2 weeks ago our lives changed forever when we had to say goodbye to the legend that was

billy souter not just for us as a family but to the many extended friends and acquaintances

that billy made in his short but well lived 55 years.

billy always had a cheeky joke or a lug to burn, usually involving his trademark "toilet

humour" as auntie mary calls it.

but billy was a good soul a good laugh and a good man.

 he lived a full and happy life and was loved by everyone, theres not many of us will get to

the end of our days and be able to say we had no enemies....billy can.

billy was like the big brother i never had as kids we would spend hours catching bees in a jam

jar or riding gary's chopper bike round and round the scheme or indeed listening to sinitta on

repeat for hours....poor auntie linda must have been demented .

we will never forget billy he was and always will be

 the biggest character and usually the loudest laugh in the room.

billy leaves a lifetime of memories for us and for you so please today take a moment today to

share them.

 in almost 4 decades of being the local paperboy in his beloved summy billy accumulated

friends easily his daily litter picking around the scheme seen him have a gab with many more.

often found at the bookies playing his dummy lines or the black horse having lunch playing

bingo or singing on the karaoke or his daily visits to the opticians all these things filled his

day and made billy happy.

 i cant ever recall a day where he was sad it just wasn't him and a quality to be envied i think.

 the years he spent doing his janny in jean paul 7 years of volenteering.in his local high

school.

he loved the kids, his years as a youth leader evident in the way the kids gravitated to him and

the good soul he was.

many times i watched the school kids crowd round at the chippy to say hi those kids will miss

him , our kids will miss him his naughty sense of humour that only he could get away with.

billy was a creature of habit he loved his routine and nothing stopped him even telling eddie

on the day he fell unwell that no bloody wind would keep him from his bingo that night.

billy liked to have his calender full dinners at our family homes overnight stays at the cousins

holidays all planned well in advance.his weekly facetimes to the aunties in america and

england and indeed springburn something he looked forward to and never missed

planning things months in advance

this year calling me in october to ask if 10th of december would be ok to deliver christmas

presents. i wont share my reply.

without him the lights a little duller and our lifes greatly altered he will be sorely missed and

never forgotten by all knew him

tell your stories love and laugh and try not to be sad.

billys life has ended far to soon but it is was a life well lived

billy is now back in the arms of his mum and dad and his wee brother gary

goodnight god bless billy boy

you were loved more than you will ever know.

heroes get remembered but legends never die.