Sorry for your loss Prayers and Condolences. He heard you and knows you love him. I never had the chance to say good by to my big brother when he died at 56 years, many ago.
He is on the path we will all travel and be waiting for you when you arrive for the grand reunion.
Revelation 21:4 ESV
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."