12:00a.m. 11th October 2008

| By Amy Remeikis

Aaron Reeves died of a heart attack in September.

Aaron Reeves was one of life’s good guys.

His kind eyes had a cheeky glint which told you he wasn’t averse to having a bit of good natured fun.

It was one of the many things his friends, family and clients loved about him.

The popular Maroochydore barber died on September 19, just two weeks after his 38th birthday.

He had been cutting a client’s hair at Master Creations, the barber shop he and his wife Jodie ran in Ocean Street, when he suffered what appeared to be a heart attack.

The client, and another customer who had been waiting, attempted to resuscitate Aaron, but were unsuccessful.

Jodie said she had been overwhelmed by the messages of support and love from Aaron’s clients and friends and would like to speak to the men who did what they could to save her husband.

She has taken some time off from the Maroochydore shop, where her husband’s cutting chair has been left vacant as a tribute to the sports mad Essendon fan, to heal after losing her soul mate.

His loss has left a huge hole with those he knew – and even some he didn’t.

Aaron never advertised it, but he was instrumental in helping to organise a charity bowls day at the Swans bowls club for the Give me 5 for Kids campaign, which in four years helped raise more than $76,000 for the Nambour General Hospital children’s ward.

He didn’t subscribe to any particular religion but felt a strong connection to the Buddhism belief that what you put into the world you would get back.

Jodie smiled as she recalled her husband going the extra mile for his clients.

“If one of them were ill or elderly and couldn’t get to him, he would head out and cut their hair at home,” she said.

Next month the couple would have been married 10 years.

Aaron had planned a week-long cruise to celebrate telling Jodie “this is it, I’m getting you out of Australia” because she has never been outside the country.

Aaron and Jodie met at the Maroochydore Hotel in 1993.

They went on one date and “that was it”.

Aaron proposed on Pincushion Island, a little piece of land which had always held a special place in his heart.

He loved the water and if he wasn’t kayaking, he was swimming or just enjoying a walk at the water’s edge.

George, the couple’s beloved English Bulldog was a constant companion and 15-months ago. Mildred the Staffordshire joined their little family.

On September 26 more than 250 people helped farewell Aaron at a wake held at the Maroochy swan bowls club.

He loved a day on the greens and Jodie said the celebration of his life was something her Cold Chisel loving husband would have been proud of.

She hopes people will remember him as a man who lived life to the fullest, a bloke’s bloke with a romantic heart who would give what he could to people and ask nothing in return.

“He was just a special, special person,” she said.

“We miss him.”