Dan FIRTH
You are warmly invited to attend Dan’s funeral on TUESDAY 12th August, 2025, in the Joyce Chapel at Fawkner Memorial Park, 1187 Sydney Rd, Hadfield, commencing at 1.30pm.
Refreshments will follow at Moonee Ponds Bowling Club, 776 Mt. Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds from 3pm, where you can continue to share memories and stories.
Dan will be privately cremated.
Dan’s ceremony is not being livestreamed.
Service Details
1.30 PM
Tuesday 12th August
Joyce Chapel
Fawkner Memorial Park
1187 Sydney Road, Hadfield
You are warmly invited to attend Dan’s funeral on TUESDAY 12th August, 2025, in the Joyce Chapel at Fawkner Memorial Park, 1187 Sydney Rd, Hadfield, commencing at 1.30pm.
Refreshments will follow at Moonee Ponds Bowling Club, 776 Mt. Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds from 3pm, where you can continue to share memories and stories.
Dan will be privately cremated.
Dan’s ceremony is not being livestreamed.
I have been a part of Dan’s extended family for nearly 30 years. From the very first, when I was just a young woman in her early 20’s he was warm and welcoming. Over the years we shared more than a few in-law style knowing smiles at how our loved ones family worked. Dan was also warm and kind to my mum, their shared love of music connecting them. Since his passing those are the words I have heard used to describe him the most: warm, kind and also gentle. What a beautiful man.
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality
Emily Dickenson
I’ve known Dan for a long time. Since he first started seeing Gina. I remember their wedding. How nervous they both were. In those days I didn’t much like Dan’s choice in music. It was his punk stage. So at first our friendship was based on a shared love of Collingwood. Dan started listening to blues music. Much more to my taste.
A few times, along with My partner Jane (Gina’s sister), we have been to Clarkesdale with Gina and Dan. It was during those trips that I realised just how much Dan was loved by so many in the music scene – not just here in Melbourne – but in Mississippi as well. Dan was a living encyclopedia of blues. The times in Clarkesdale were so relaxed with Dan, Gina and Dan’s American music friends.
Back in Australia, we would often all go to live music on Sunday afternoon in Fitzroy, Brunswick or Coburg. If Dan was not well enough to go out we would go to Kensington with some beer, wine and snacks and listen to the Juke Joint on PBS. Invariably, Dan was sitting on the front porch with the cryptic crossword when we arrived. I will miss those afternoons because they were always so relaxed.
Dan was always great company. He had an often wry sense of humour. He did not suffer fools or people who didn’t like the blues.
It really has been an honour to be part of Dan’s life. I hope we will continue our Sunday music rituals and remember Dan every time we do.