Tearful farewell for slain farmer

Scott Guy's dog waits on its master's ute during his funeral service in Feilding yesterday. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Clad head to toe in cowboy threads, Scott Guy was the only dad dressed up at his 2-year-old son's kindergarten disco last month, but he didn't care.

That story and other tales about the loving father, husband, son, brother and friend emerged at the 31-year-old's funeral yesterday attended by hundreds as police continued to hunt for his killer.

Eight days after the Feilding dairy farmer was murdered with a shotgun at the end of his driveway, police are still at a loss to explain why someone would hurt him.

He left behind his wife, Kylee, who, it was revealed yesterday, is pregnant with a boy, and son Hunter.

Through uncle Rowan Bullock, she said she and her husband had always planned on dying in each other's arms like the movie The Notebook.

"I have two little Scottys with me and every day when I am sad, all I have to do is look at them and everything will be okay. I know when our baby boy is born you will be happier than words can describe.

"Only a month or so ago, I can still clearly see you rushing home from work, so excited about the kindy disco. You ran out to the shed to get yours and Hunter's rodeo and cowboy outfits. You were the only dad who got dressed up for the disco and you didn't care what anyone else thought.

"You did it for your little boy.

"It's times like this I used to watch you and have an overwhelming feeling of how lucky Hunter and I are to have you and I'd cry happy tears."

Mr Guy's coffin was driven to Feilding's St John the Evangelist Anglican Church on the back of his Toyota Hilux ute, which has the number plate MR GUY, surrounded by mates wearing cowboy hats he had made while working as a jackaroo in Australia. An upturned cowboy hat sat on the casket once it was carried to the front of the church.

Hundreds of mourners spilled out of the church and a parish hall where speakers and televisions were set up to screen the service.

Unaware of the tragedy, a blond, curly headed Hunter played happily with a toy and sucked a lollipop at the front of the church as his mother wept behind her dark glasses.

Mr Guy's eldest sister Nicola said her brother's "first two loves" were cowboys and the Dukes of Hazard.

"Scott was always dressing up as a cowboy and we can remember having to look for yet another lost gun down by the creek after an imaginary gunfight with some baddie.

"Every morning at primary school, Scott would write stories about the Dukes of Hazard, centred around General Lee, how far it could jump and how fast it could go."

Mr Guy's father, Bryan, described the shock of seeing his son's first tattoo, a Tasmanian devil.

"One day, when he came home for the holidays, we were concreting and like all good sons, he gave us a hand. The day warmed up and shirts came off and then I saw it.

"What we found out later was he'd actually had it for about a year. It wasn't a great one either.

"In later years he got another one of a bull-rider over the top of it to try and disguise it."

Mr Guy also had his son's name tattooed on his arm.

A montage of photos of Mr Guy's life played to Tim McGraw's It's Your Love and Rufus Wainwright's Hallelujah, including pictures from his wedding and with his son.

Mr Guy's casket was carried by pall-bearers who included his brother and sisters while three cowboys formed a guard of honour and cracked whips.