Obituaries
Duncan Cottam
Published 5 September 2008
As foreman mechanic at the Cumberland County Council Fire Service workshop in Dalston, Duncan Cottam made his considerable mark as a hard but fair taskmaster who would never ask someone to do a job that he could not do himself.
Heather Payn
Published 5 September 2008
From Brampton to Barrow and from Silloth to Sedbergh, Heather Jeckell’s contribution to the teaching of home economics was considerable and consistent.
Barrie Moses
Published 29 August 2008
FOR 74 years Barrie Moses’ playing gave great pleasure to thousands. Yet this master of the piano accordion never had a lesson in his life. He was entirely self-taught – and he could not read a note of music.
Mary Eleanor Wilson, MBE
Published 22 August 2008
As a little the girl, Mary Wilson used to play in the Cumberland Infirmary grounds with the daughter of the hospital’s head porter. And it was there that the infirmary’s matron used to talk to her.
The Rev Mary Gill
Published 15 August 2008
Mary Gill made her substantial mark both in the local community at Alston and in the much wider area that took in Cumbria and Northumberland. She was a teacher, a classicist who specialised in Latin and Greek, could read Hebrew and who also taught mathematics and religious studies.
Dr Charles Rolland
Published 8 August 2008
His influence on the health service in Cumbria was far reaching and the improvements Dr Charles Rolland brought about were real and lasting, especially in provision for the elderly and for those suffering from diabetes and other glandular disorders.
Alan Moore
Published 1 August 2008
Distinguished service in co-ordinating work with British and Polish administration staff, read the citation that earned Alan Moore the British Empire Medal, back in 1946, while he was still serving in the RAF.
Edward Graham Faulder
Published 1 August 2008
In so many ways during his long and varied life, Ted Faulder was a traditionalist. He stood by the established values of the Church of England and said that should women bishops be appointed, he would become a Roman Catholic.
Ralph Bee
Published 1 August 2008
Ralph Bee, who was deputy county agricultural officer for Cumberland from 1954 to 1964 has died at Torbay Hospital in Devon aged 92.
Dr Peter Brett Storey
Published 1 August 2008
The onset of Parkinson’s disease was a devastating blow for Peter Storey, a brilliant psychiatrist who had practised in Harley Street.
Jim Gradwell
Published 25 July 2008
The sad passing of Jim Gradwell is another loss to the town of Appleby. Jim was the son of Maud and James William Gradwell who lived at Church View, Bongate.
Wing Commander Ronald Huie
Published 25 July 2008
For all of his long life, Ronald Huie was fascinated by aircraft. He joined the RAF as a boy entrant, served in far-flung parts during the World War Two and, when a medical problem grounded him, worked in air force administration for many years.
Donald Bell
Published 18 July 2008
He was the last surviving member of the family firm that put thousands of Carlisle people on wheels, in the days when the city was a hive of industrial activity and people rode their bikes to and from work.
Phyllis Catherine Grubb
Published 11 July 2008
Phyllis Grubb’s life was something like the ‘curate’s egg’ – good in parts and very good in its major parts. For personal family reasons, her early years were not happy and when she was in her 40s she underwent successful, but (in those days) invasive treatment for breast cancer.
Robert Bryson Davidson
Published 4 July 2008
He had no high-flown qualifications to his name yet Brys Davidson rose from the bottom to the top in his field of Carlisle hospital administration.
Harry Featherstone Watson
Published 4 July 2008
In a very real sense, Harry Watson represented Wigton. As a local newspaper journalist, he reported on all sorts of events in and around the town for almost 40 years and he played a prominent part in welfare activities there.
Jim Chambers
Published 27 June 2008
Jim Chambers, who has died at the age of 78, had three great passions in his life outside of work – his wife Catherine, jazz and military history.
Harry Featherstone Watson
Published 27 June 2008
In a very real sense, Harry Watson represented Wigton. As a local newspaper journalist, he reported on all sorts of events in and around the town for almost 40 years and he played a prominent part in welfare activities there.
Angela Mary Lee
Published 17 June 2008
The sudden death of Angela Lee, well known in the county as a textile artist, clog and step dancer and teacher, has shocked and saddened her family and many friends.
James Andrew Irving
Published 13 June 2008
For years, in all weathers, Jim Irving was an Automobile Association patrol man, riding his motor cycle and sidecar on the Langholm to Hawick run.
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