Dad what can we say, he was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. Dad was the youngest of 10 children born to the late Robert and Agnes Paterson, his siblings were the late Jeanie, Bobby, Jimmy, Davey, Sadie, Nancy and Iain he is survived by his Sister Betty and Brother Andrew Dad was born on the 3 October 1942,in Mawcarse, Milnathort, Scotland a lot of you may not know that dad was an Identical Twin to Iain Allen (who was the older by several minutes) unfortunately Iain only survived 21 days, I hear many of you thinking this was a good thing as I don’t think the world would have been ready for two of them. All I can say is look out heaven life is going to be way more interesting up there. Dad joined the Royal Air Force in 1959 where he was trained as a survival equipment fitter he travelled to many exotic places, in 1963 he was posted to the far east, it was while being posted to a place called Kuching, he eventually met and fell in love with a beautiful local chinese girl Lucy, this was not plain sailing for him as soon as the RAF got wind of this romance they posted Dad off to Singapore hoping to end this relationship, but he is a very stubborn man as many of you will have encountered, he got engaged to Lucy via his eventual best man and they were later married on 3 July 1965. After the wedding they moved to Singapore before being posted back to the UK in the October. Where he took his new bride to meet the family in Scotland. He and Mum settled into their posting at Thorney Island on the south coast of the UK, and exactly a year to the day they were married in Kuching, I was born, followed by my sister Alison in January 1969 then we were all posted up to Linton on Ouse near York where my brother Ian was born in January 1972 in the October of that year dad demobbed from the RAF and the family settled in York, he went to work for Rowntrees and was there for many years until he took voluntary redundancy in 1988. He then went back to the Linton on Ouse this time as a civilian performing the same job as he had done as an enlisted man he did this for a further five years before working for agencies performing many varied roles which used to take him all over the country until he retired in 2007. Although dads first love was his family, he also had another love which ran a close second and that was the RAOB (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes)