William Woodall‘s final words to father Peter Woodall, 65, before death

The heartbroken son of a man who died of a heart attack while on the phone to him has shared his father’s devastating last words.

Peter Woodall was on the phone to William Woodall his son when he died. Picture: Supplied

“Don’t worry about the ambulance son - it’s too late, goodbye mate, goodbye”.

The heartbroken son of a man who died of a heart attack while on the phone to him has shared his father’s devastating last words.

William Woodall was talking to his father Peter Woodall, 65, when he asked him to call an ambulance on July 5.

William said he told his dad to hang on and begged him: “dad please speak to me” but it was too late. When the ambulance arrived, Peter who had suffered from emphysema for years, was in cardiac arrest and died from a heart attack.

Two days after the death, William found out his partner Naomi Layton-Stengert, who he had recently proposed to, was pregnant.

Naomi Layton-Stengert with William Woodall, Aurora Layton, 7, and Aleighia Woodall, 18 months. Picture: Steve Pohlner

“I can’t even explain the feeling, it was not a feeling you ever want to feel,” William said about the phone call.

“It took me a little bit to bring myself to actually get in the car and go there. I think I got there about an hour and a half after.

“When he passed away, he was sitting in his chair, apparently holding his hand on his knee, and he had a photo of me which is a little photo that he used to sit next to near his chair on the table thing, which was a photo of me in high school and he had it in his hand.”

“I still replay the phone call in my head.”

Peter Woodall was on the phone to William Woodall his son when he died. Picture: Supplied

William’s partner Naomi Layton-Stengert said just two days before Peter died, she had asked him to walk her down the aisle.

“I finally felt enough. I’ve found my dad forever. I’ve found that person that I was missing most of my life,” she said.

“It was very, very hard, him passing after saying yes to walking me down the aisle.

“I don’t know if I could bring myself to walk down the aisle without him now,

“He said “you’re finally going to be my daughter, and for real.” He was ecstatic over it so felt like I was a part of someone else’s family.”

“It’s put a big rift in my heart.”

Peter Woodall. Picture: Supplied

Ms Layton-Stengert said she hoped she was pregnant with a boy so she could name him after Peter.

She said she had been preparing to see Peter the day after the tragic phone call for a barbecue lunch with her daughters.

“That was on the Saturday that he confirmed all of that with my partner at around 12 o’clock, and then, at five o’clock, my partner received a call and he passed away that night,” she said.

“We didn’t get to go for our barbecue lunch the next day, and he didn’t make it to Sunday.”

She said being there with her partner for the heartbreaking call was difficult. .

“I was on the phone trying to calm my partner. It was very hard at the time to calm him. He was very emotionally distraught,” she said.

“I remember it was very scary because I saw my partner break the way he did.”

William said his dad was such a good bloke who was born in Germany and by the age of 14 he had travelled to many countries including moving to Australia.

William was on the phone to his father Peter when he died. Picture: Steve Pohlner

“He’d give anybody the shirt off his back,” he said.

“He was a good dad. He was the hard dad. He was that dad that made me learn from my wrongs but I was always able to talk to him about anything.”

He said he loved his grandkids and never failed to be there for both of them.

Ms Layton-Stengart said he had great humour.

“He was so giving, and not just with money and with stuff, with advice, with knowledge,” she said.

Since the death came so suddenly, the family have created a GoFundMe to help pay for the funeral costs and all the unexpected ones.

“I’m an only child. I was really close with my dad. I was there every weekend to take him to a shop and get his medications for him,” he said.

“We have the GoFundMe so I can pay for the funeral and take some financial stress off me and my family after, I’m the only person here to do anything for my dad.”

Originally published as William Woodall‘s final words to father Peter Woodall, 65, before death