Steve Merry, known as Steve Super Scoop, served his city neighbourhood for more than 40 years.
As well as a much-loved ice cream man, Steve Merry was also an artist and had a "love for life", his family said
Mr Merry, who retired in 2017, bought his first van in the 1970s and met his wife Champa on his ice cream run.Mr Merry, who had two children, Samantha and Thomas, was known as "the best ice cream man ever" and a "true gentleman" in the community, his family said."Dad was Merry by name and merry by nature," Miss Merry added.
After backpacking and hitchhiking around Europe, Mr Merry visited India with friends and "fell in love" with the country.It was an idea inspired in part by his own sweet tooth, which his daughter said he got from his own father, who was a sweet factory worker.
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