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Robert Hervin

2:53pm Thursday 18th June 2009

A popular milkman who helped villagers in the small communities of South Wraxall and Avoncliff has died, aged 80.

David Beech

2:56pm Thursday 18th June 2009

A former director of airspace planning, David Beech, died of a heart attack while on holiday in Malaga in Spain, aged 67.

Robert Woodhouse

2:50pm Thursday 18th June 2009

A large congregation at St Bartholomew’s Church, Wootton Bassett shared in celebrating the life of Robert Woodhouse, 37, who was a local Beaver Scout leader and junior football coach.

Ralph Lilley

Ralph Lilley settled in Colerne after service in the RAF

2:47pm Thursday 18th June 2009

Former gamekeeper Ralph Charles Lilley, of Tutton Hill, Colerne, died at the Royal United Hospital in Bath on June 4 after a short battle with cancer.

David John Lawrence

David Lawrence

2:45pm Thursday 18th June 2009

David John Lawrence, who was known by friends and family as a ‘free-spirit’, died from a heart attack at the age of 64.

Wyn Fleet

Wyn Fleet

2:07pm Thursday 11th June 2009

Winifred (Wyn) Fleet, 95, who taught at St Bartholomew’s Primary School, Wootton Bassett for 18 years prior to retirement, was remembered by a large congregation at St Bartholomew’s and All Saints’ Church, where she worshipped regularly until her health failed in April.

Pat White

Pat White

2:09pm Thursday 11th June 2009

Many friends and former colleagues of retired Wootton Bassett teacher Pat White, 67, filled Kingsdown Crematorium chapel to celebrate her life.

Maria Hilliar

Maria Hilliar

2:02pm Thursday 11th June 2009

Maria Hilliar who had lived with husband Peter in Kingsbury Street in Marlborough since their wedding 35 years ago has died in the Prospect Hospice just four months after doctors told her she had cancer of the lung.

Cameron Gough DSC

3:12pm Thursday 4th June 2009

Cameron Gough, aged 86, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday May 28 after a short illness in Torbay Hospital where he was on holiday with his wife, Jeanne, in Torquay.

Walter Kinnes Tait

Walter Tait

3:18pm Thursday 4th June 2009

A large congregation, including relatives and friends from Scotland, attended the funeral of Walter Kinnes Tait, 61, at St Bartholomew’s Church, Wootton Bassett.


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