This is how two of their daughters ended up covered with their father’s ashes after trying to scatter them along a windy coastline.
Tyla Halls, 22 and Belle Henry, 28 respectively, were clearly moved as they set off to release Mark’s ashes to the Bristol Channel.
But they were left giggling as a huge gust de wind rushed past just as they threw ashes towards water – causing the remains of the ashes to fly back in Tyla’s face.
Tyla Halls, 22, had the honour of emptying her father’s urn into the Bristol Channel, behind Capstone Hill in North Devon. A sudden gust of wind sent her ashes in the opposite direction and covered her with ashes.
Tyla Halls is encased in ash and grimaces, before she bursts into laughter at the slapstick act of ash-scattering gone sour.
Amusing video of her laughing and shouting: “He went into my mouth!”
Mark Halls, 47, died suddenly on October 21 2020. His daughters released his ashes one year later in his honor, behind Capstone Hill in North Devon.
Belle, a NHS worker, said that Belle sums him up in the video.
Young Belle Henry smiles with Mark Halls, her father, in a family photograph. Mark died suddenly at the age 47.
Father Mark Halls wears a baseball hat in a photo taken with Belle Henry, his adult daughter.
“He was brilliant, had a great sense of humor, and was so funny. He was a true daddy bear.
“It was an emotional and memorable day.
“When the accident with ashes occurred, it helped to lighten the mood and both of us walked away laughing.
“My sister Tyla is concerned that someone will see her as the girl who inhaled her father’s blood.” It’s quite funny to me.
Belle, Tyla, as well as brother Cohen Halls, grew up in Ilfracombe.