If Brett Wills knew he was dying, he certainly didn’t let on to his family and friends. The devoted father of Napier’s one-year-old quadruplets, Jonathan, Oliver, Lucy and Esther, as well as three-year-old Peter, passed away at Hawke’s Bay Hospital a few weeks ago, with his wife Joanne, his parents and his siblings at his side.
Just 42 when he died, Brett was a stay-at-home dad who loved God, trout fishing and his family. He had also had a congenital heart defect from birth.
Joanne, speaking to Woman’s Day from the couple’s Napier home a week after Brett’s funeral, says although she was aware of her husband’s condition, she always imagined there would be more time.
“We had hoped for another 20 years – for him to be at the…
