Dubbo yesterday said an emotional final farewell to John and Jackson Pascoe, as more than a thousand mourners filled the Baptist Church to overflowing for a celebration of the lives so tragically cut short in a truck crash near Griffith last week. During yesterday's moving service, friends and family remembered Mr Pascoe, 43 and eight-year-old son Jackson as a close father and son team, whose love for each other knew no bounds. Pastor Peter Anderson led the moving tribute, saying the number of mourners was testament to the love and respect held by the community not only for John and Jackson, but for Di Pascoe, son Chris, 20, and five-year-old Jaime. Mr Pascoe's younger brother David delivered a eulogy in which he described the honour of being his brother's best man and shared with mourners some bittersweet memories of the fun and laughter he and his brother had grown up with. David told of his nephew Jackson's first ambition to be a "stay at home dad" when he grew up and the congregation was reminded again of the great love Jackson had for his father and how they had valued every moment they spent together. Friend and colleague, John Morris, said Mr Pascoe, a well-known and respected member of Dubbo's trucking industry, was a "unique breed of person". "As a truck driver you're always concerned when you take your own family with you but you take them with you to spend that extra bit of special time." Mrs Pascoe spoke through her neice Jodie Goninan and in her moving farewell messages to her husband and son the congregation once again heard how devoted Mr Pascoe was to his family. "He regretted the time that his job took him away from his family which is why the weekends became so special," she said. The weekends were a time for sport and Jackson was an avid bike rider just like his older brother Chris who is renowned national cyclist. In Chris' moving tribute to his brother he said that Jackson was the more talented of the two and that when Jackson won the State final "it was the best race I'd ever seen". Tears and emotion flowed freely as images of Mr Pascoe and Jackson were beamed onto a screen to the strains of Somewhere Over the Rainbow - a song made all the more poignant because of the earlier words of Di Pascoe. "You were always the stars in my eyes but now Jaime tells me that (Jackson) and Daddy are rainbows," she said. A convoy of air horns sounded a final fitting tribute as the cortege moved from the church to the Western Districts Memorial Park where Mr Pascoe and his son were interred.