A big man, big personality and big heart - this was how Aaron Sinadinovic was remembered at his funeral this morning.
About 300 people attended the service, held at H Parsons Funeral Home Dapto, to mourn a young man who was taken at the age of 24, dying in tragic circumstances a week ago with two friends in a car accident at Unanderra.
Among those providing eulogies was Mr Sinadinovic's nephew Jared Stankovski who said his uncle's passing had devastated his loving family.
``A big man, most would have thought him not to be the cuddly type, but Uncle loved nothing more than to cuddle his family. He would often say, `Come on boys, come over and give big Uncle a cuddle','' Jared said.
Childhood friend Brian Wyatt said the word always asscociated with Mr Sinadinovic, who stood at 198cm tall, was ``big''.
``Not just for his physical attributes, but for his big personality, his big sense of humour and most importantly his big heart,'' Mr Wyatt said.
Mr Sinadinovic's fiancee Tania Manzini wept as she said the couple planned to marry and start a family.
``Knowing that our hopes and dreams of getting married and having children will never come true breaks my heart,'' she said.
Mr Sinadinovic, of Farmborough Heights, Roach Bannerman, of Brownsville, and Adam Nall, of Oak Flats, were killed when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a telegraph pole and burst a gas main on the Princes Hwy on September 19. Friend Daniel Schroeder, of Horsley, survived with serious burns.
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