By ANEEKA SIMONIS
HER big, sweet dimples, smile and laugh were enough to reel Emily Lucinda Ellett’s soulmate in for life.
Ash, mourning the loss of his beautiful Emily, said he never would have known the meaning of true love if it weren’t for Emily.
She was taken too soon from him and her adoring family, he told a funeral service in Pakenham on Friday 11 December.
“You will live in my heart forever,” Ash said as he farewelled Emily, 32, from Pakenham South.
Hundreds of tearful mourners watched as Emily’s special friends and family shared their many treasured memories with their sunshine girl.
Emily’s older sister Natalie tearfully remembered the many sweet, handwritten notes she received from an adoring Emily, admitting she had often pretended Emily was her own little baby to love and care for.
“I have loved you my whole life,” she said.
“I will never get over losing you. I will miss all the things we have shared in the past and all the things we would have shared in the future.”
Her sentiments were shared by fellow siblings Danielle, Rachelle, Kylie and Brenton who read a poem in tribute to their sister who is gone but not forgotten.
“Her little soul has touched us all, she didn’t need to stay. Her spirit touched each one of us, before it sailed away,” her sisters read.
“We all know souls arrive on earth with special roles to fill. And hers has fully played its part, her memory guides us still.”
Best friend Bianca said time would not heal the gap left by the heart-breaking loss of Emily.
“She had a heart of pure gold,” she said.
“I miss you so much. And the days and the months will just be harder because I won’t see your face which always brightens up my day.
“I feel so privileged for you to have let me be such a big part of your life.”
Emily was born to parents Pam and Barry on Thursday 15 January in 1983.
She was the youngest of seven siblings – a family predicament that brought about many laughs growing up, particularly during car trips together.
Celebrant Ernest Rigby shared a family gem where Barry was pulled over by the police for having too many passengers – his children – in the car at once.
The officer underestimated the number of kids crammed into the car, only to find one more hiding “under the dash”.
He let them drive off without problem, but not before sharing a laugh with Barry and his many kids.
Emily grew up to chase her dreams, becoming a nurse where she was practicing at Maroondah Hospital in Ringwood.
With care and compassion, she did her duty to look after patients in need, often to lengths above and beyond what was required.
But not before enjoying several overseas travel stints to Europe.
Emily spent 12 months abroad after finishing school, living in England and enjoying her youth.
She married her soulmate Ash in November 2010. The pair had split, but had recently begun rekindling their love for each other.
“I have never been happier than I have been in the past few months,” Ash said.
Emily’s cherished life was tragically cut short after a horror car crash in Vervale on Saturday 28 November.
She will be missed by all she touched during her years.
She now joins her sister Amanda, who died in 2000.
