PATRICK - Suddenly but peacefully, after arrival at Raigmore Hospital, on Tuesday, 19th December, 2023, Eric Thomas Patrick, 7A Inshes View, Inverness, aged 78 years. Former Petty Officer/Aircraft Engineer in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, Helicopter Engineer in Civil Aviation and latterly Scottish Air Ambulance. Dearly loved husband to Valerie, loving father, grandfather, great-grandfather, well known and a legend to so many colleagues and friends. Quiet family funeral service on Thursday, 28th December, at 11.00am, in the funeral home of William T. Fraser and Son, Culduthel Road, Inverness; thereafter an invite to all friends to join them at The Beaufort Hotel, at 12 noon, for refreshments.