David was born on 26th November 1949, at home, in Highfields, South Yorkshire, weighing in at a healthy 9 lbs. Highfields, in those days, was a growing mining village near Doncaster; in fact, the population of the village was made up mainly of coal mining families. David was one of three sons and a daughter, born to Florence May and Jack Hibbert. David’s father Jack was adamant that no son of his would ‘go down the pit’, and did not allow any of his sons to work underground. David’s elder brother Alan now lives in Zimbabwe and his sister Kathleen and younger brother Roger live in England. David grew up and went through his school years in Highfields village, where he eventually started helping out in the local butcher’s shop; it was to be his introduction to what turned out to be a lifetime in the butchery business. At the age of thirteen he had to make a decision as to what to do for his final years of education, and he chose to attend the Nautical College in Hull. David spent two year’s in Hull and at the age of fifteen decided to go back home to Highfields and started working full time at the butchers shop he had previously worked. So from the age of 15-16 years, David worked at, and loved being a butcher, going on to reach the accolade of ‘Master Butcher’ From his teenage years, David was known to his friends as ‘Chuddy’; Kathleen tells me that she called him this, on occasions, throughout their married life. Kathleen and David met when she was seventeen at a pub disco; she described themselves as ‘two Mod’s without a scooter between them’. They married two years later at Doncaster Registry Office and have lived for each other ever since. Their only child, Sarah was born on April 22nd 1969 and she went on to present Mum and Dad with loving Grandchildren, Melissa, and Thomas and Daniel who are twins. David and Kathleen used to love going to antique fairs, dinner parties and travelling to various places in the world. David’s favourite destination was Singapore – he loved the place. David also had a great love for cricket… playing the game as a youngster, and watching it in adulthood. David enjoyed all types of music, especially brass bands and pan pipes and he also really loved cooking meals at home. David and Kathleen moved to Spain in 2006; it was something that David always wanted to do; Kathleen told me that it was his idea from the start, so they sold their house in England and arrived in Spain, along with their two cats. After twelve months of settling in, the first shop was opened in El Pareton. When the new motorway was opened it really affected passing trade and so the business was moved to Puerto de Mazarron and the name ‘Fred Elliott’ has become well known in the area since then. David entered into a business partnership with Kay and the restaurant in Bolnuevo followed and has now been open just over a year. David was a very placid man. From childhood and throughout his life, he ‘was no trouble and did not get into trouble’. His mum Florence and his brother Roger, told me that David never got into bother … ‘not like me’, Roger shared.. he, [David] was always the good boy. Kathleen said that David just ‘would not argue’… and it made her mad at times when he refused to get upset at things that happened in their lives… but that was the man that he was… that was his nature. The Bible says ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God’. You need to be a very special person to be a peacemaker. David loved home life and just being together with Kathleen; they also so enjoyed going out for a meal together and ‘people watching’ over a cup of coffee, down in the Port. David was a very private man, but even so, was loved and impacted the lives of many others. He will be desperately missed by Kathleen, Sarah and all his family; also by everyone who knew him. God bless you David.