Geoffrey Trezise's life was remembered on Wednesday at Westbury, where, through his work as a GP he touched many people's lives.
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More than 200 people attended the service at Westbury RSL, including family, friends and patients, to pay their respects to the 85-year-old.
The family was inundated with well wishers sharing what their husband, father and grandfather meant to them as a friend and a doctor.
His son, Michael Trezise recounted a story from his teenage years when he and friends had stolen some of his dad's beer cans and hid them by the North Esk River.
"Somehow dad found out and at 10pm he drove me down to the bank and he threw them in the river," he said.
Dr Trezise's daughter Andrea Trezise said she would miss their daily phone calls and their monthly trips to Deloraine Market.
"We've had so much community support in the last couple of weeks and we had so many people out searching for him for the four or five days he was missing," she said.
"He was obviously incredibly loved by everybody here."
She said the support they had received was amazing, from letters to cards and people travelling interstate to pay their respects.
The beloved doctor retired from his practice in 2007 but his daughter said his patients were like his family.
"He was really naughty, when he retired from the practice he kept records of their birth dates on his computer at home," she said.
"So if we had a conversation about how old someone was in the community he would always know, he just loved his patients."