On October 31, at Mater Dei Hospital, KARMNU (known as Karmnu tar-roti), aged 87, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church.

He leaves to mourn his loss his children Pauline and her husband Victor Sammut, Doris and her husband Frank Dimech, Joe and his wife Vivien, Mary Rose and her husband Joe Vassallo, and Charlie and his partner Julia, grandchildren Susan, Glenn, James, Gordon, Claire, Diane, Keith, Ian, Rebecca and Nathan and their families, his niece Gemma and nephew Charlie, his sister Doris, widow of Joe Micallef and his brother John, widower of Mary, his aunt Therese Micallef, other relatives and friends.