GoFundMe Started To Help Pay For Phil Pasfield's Funeral Expenses

LONG ISLAND, NY - The Long Island community came together to help create a fundraiser in honor of a popular local chef who died last week.

Robert Phillip "Phil" Pasfield, co-owner and chef of The Brixton in Babylon, passed away in Patchogue on April 26.

On Tuesday, Pasfield's friends, Kim Parmenter; Devin Delgado; Steven Scalesse and Alanna Johnson, started a page on GoFundMe to help raise money for the funeral expenses.

"Phil was an amazing husband, friend, brother, son, chef and so much more to each and every one of us," the page reads. "He leaves behind so many loving friends and families that are heartbroken and devastated."

In addition, the page included a heartfelt statement from his wife, Katie Kauffman:

I lost my best friend yesterday. Phil was truly the best person on this earth. He took care of me better than anyone else and was truly the greatest husband someone could ever have. I don’t physically understand anything or how this could have happened or why it was supposed to. There isn’t anyway that this is fair for the hardest working, most humble, selfless and loving person on this earth. I don’t have any words. I’ll love you more than myself forever.

Pasfield's friends hope to raise a total of $15,000 through the GoFundMe. As of Thursday, the page has raised $6,585.

Funeral service will be on Thursday May 2 starting at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow at St. Ann's cemetery in Sayville

To read more or to donate, visit the GoFundMe page here.