Bereavements Archives - Grantham Matters

Fred Lampey

May 25, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Frederick (Fred) Lampey, passed peacefully surrounded by his loving family at Nottingham City Hospital on 12th May 2022 aged 79 years.
Greatly loved & Dearly missed husband to Marie, Dearly loved Dad to Robert & Sarah, Prod grandad to Bobby & Freddy.
“So very dearly missed by all your loving family & friends”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham Crematorium on Tuesday 14th June 2022 at 12:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Fred are for the work of the British Lung Foundation and can be given on the day.

All enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Director’s, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Megan Davidson

May 24, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Megan Davidsopn tragically passed on the 16th May 2022 Aged 21 years.
Cherished daughter to Scott & Cheryl, Dearly loved sister to Chloe, deeply loved granddaughter to Karl & Elaine & Bunty & Joe, loved cousin to Archie.

“Your sudden passing leaves a hole in the lives of all your loving family & many friends that will never be filled”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Wednesday 1st June 2022 at 1:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Megan are for the work of MIND and can be given on the day

John Aspland

May 9, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

John Kenneth Aspland passed away suddenly at home on Saturday 30th April with his wife Heather by his side. He was 78.

He will be sadly missed by his family. A loving husband to Heather, father to David and Wendy, Grandad to Amy and Emily and Great grandad to Ronni, Oscar, Freyja and Archi.

John worked for many years at Aveling Barford then Kontak and Fenland Foods.

Funeral arrangements to be arranged.

Iain Blocksidge

May 6, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Iain Blocksidge passed suddenly on the 1st May 2022 after a short illness at home, surrounded by his loving family & Friends aged 50 years.

Dearly loved & greatly missed son to Josephine, loved brother to Michael and loving partner to Chong, greatly missed friend to Chris, Paul, Mark, John, Dave & Rich.

“Loved and missed always by all those who knew you”

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Thursday 12th May at 10:30am,.

Family flowers only please, donations in memory of Iain are being collected for the work of St Barnabas Hospice & McMillan and can be given on the day

Dennis Rickett

May 5, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Dennis Rickett passed peacefully on 29th April 2022 aged 76 years.

Dearly loved husband to Carole, loving Dad to Sarah & Leigh, Proud grandad to Amelia, Maisie, Leo, Seth, Tilly & Oscar. Loved father in law to to Dave & Jennie.

“You will be so very dearly missed by all your loving family & many friends”.

Born in Portsmouth, Dennis William Rickett came to Grantham when his father bought several fishmongers shop in the area called Rutland Fisheries.He went into the family business when he left school at 15, and took over the Welby Street shop in 1971, renaming it D W Rickett.

As well as fish, the shop supplied game and specialist cheeses for both retail and catering. He was helped in the shop by his wife Carole.

The shop closed in 2012 when Dennis retired.

He was a leader with Barrowby Scouts and a keen canoeist when he was younger. This led to him to qualify as a senior canoeing instructor.

He played guitar in several local bands, including The Vikings, King Bees, King, Vintage, 3 Faze and Take Note.

He formed duo DnR with which he continued after retiring.

His funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Tuesday 31st May 2022 at 12:30pm, family flowers only please donations in memory of Dennis are for the work of the RNLI and can be given on the day,.

All inquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556.

Grantham mourns loss of former radio presenter, Ian ‘Pugsey’ Parker

April 28, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

A popular local figure, Ian ‘Pugsey’ Parker, died yesterday. He was 67.

Pugsey was one of those people who fits the title of ‘well-known local character’.

He was brought up in Great Humby, and attended various schools including Ropsley, St Anne’s, Little Gonerby, National and the Boys Central before going to Trent Polytechnic.

He started out as an apprentice printer at Palmers, Swinegate, then on to Morton’s Printers at Sleaford.

Then he took a variety of jobs. He was a porter at the Angel and Royal,worked in the kitchen and on the petrol pumps at Motorstop before working for Robert Macgregor’s civil engineering. He worked for English Brothers, Coles Cranes, Storage and Haulage, Frostlink, DJ Macallum, Reads can-makers, and Chandlers Farm Equipment.

And he was never sacked.

Played for several football clubs, as well as cricket for Welby, Great Ponton (once player of the year) and few times for Grantham when they were short. In recent years, he played Walking Football at the Meres.

He also turned out for the Police. He played darts for Wagon & Horses and Shirley Croft winning the B League with both, also Kontaks Singles league, One season he got the highest finish against Frank Abblitt with 164.

He also played golf at Belton Park, but only for fun.

Pugsey was part of the early 70s Scene Mod With Lambretta Sx 200.

He had an ability to make everyone laugh so never really had any issues making friends. Following Nottingham Forest was a passion in his life, Even getting married on Forest’s furthest away game on Easter Saturday 1974 (they lost 2-0 at Carlisle – ruined his honeymoon).

He was also at Brian Clough’s debut and final Forest games. He helped raise money for many causes, from a child in the 1970s who needed a bionic hand to the Cree Centre when he work at Coles Cranes.

A massive heart attack in 1999, when he was taken under the wing of Glenfield Hospital, Leicester (to whom he is eternally grateful), was a life-changing moment.

After a part-time spell at a local undertakers he joined his wife Sue, a florist, and together they ran the business. He said: “In the years since my heart attack, I have learned so much, with helping my wife to in all aspects of floristry. I have found my outgoing personality my life’s strength.

“If the rest of my life is making people smile then I will be a happy man.”

In 2001 Pugsey was approached By Vince Mapletoft to see if he wanted to help on his telephone lines on Gravity FM, From Vince he moved on to Willie Mac’s phones then on to co-presenter, and this became the biggest show ever broadcast on Gravity.

The listenership was Fantastic. Both Willy and Pugsey raised some great amounts of money for the Station not in the hundreds but the thousands.

Then one day a spot became available for a presenter and Willy suggested him for it. When Gravity went full time his show was called Pugsey’s World and after a few co-presenters along Linda Graves and the show took of big time.

Sometimes it was manic. Then a combination of his pride and risqué comments, brought about his departure following a board meeting.

It may have been curtains for Pugsey’s World, but the world of Pugsey continued apace.

He joined Newark community radio but in September 2018 made his return to Gravity FM, before leaving world of radio behind him.

It may sound a cliche, but in Pugsey’s case, he will be sadly missed.

Kim Harrison

April 27, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Kim Harrison, passed suddenly after a short Illness on 16th April 2022 aged 64 years.

Dearly loved wife to Matthew, loving mum to Heather, Tanya & Laura, proud Mama to Aiden, Shania, Trinity, Lara, Denver, Lleyton, Keira, Tyler, Devon, Jasmyne-Lilli & Maia. Dearly loved sister to Richard & Nigel.

“So very dearly missed and loved by all who knew her”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham Crematorium on Friday 6th May 2022 at 1:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Kim are for the work of Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance and can be given on the day,

All inquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Lea Short

April 26, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Surrounded by his loving family on 21st April 2022, Lea Short passed aged 44 years, after a long illness fought with incredible bravery.

Dearly loved and greatly missed husband to Louise, loving and devoted dad to Dion, Harlea, Morgan & Darcey. Dearly loved son to Kevin & Elaine, loving brother to Kelly and the very best mate to “Our Chris”.

“So very dearly loved, and greatly missed by all your loving family & Many friends”.
Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Monday 9th May 2022 at 12:30pm, family flowers only please.

Donations in memory of Lea are for the work of Macmillan and can be given on the day.

All inquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Barbara Topley

April 25, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Barbara Topley passed peacefully after a long illness on the 8th April 2022 aged 69 years.

Dearly loved wife to David, loving mum to Paul and dearly loved friend of 61 years to Marion.

Greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham Crematorium on Wednesday 27th April 2022 at 1:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Barbara are for the work of the RSPCA & Maggies Cancer Support and can be given on the day.

Grantham-born creator of Rising Damp, Eric Chappell, dies

April 24, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Eric Chappel, (1933 – 2022 )

Writer Eric Chappell, the creator of sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, died on Thursday at the age of 88. The latter show’s star Reece Dinsdale revealed the news, expressing his gratitude for scripts that were “a complete joy to play”.

“Just heard that Eric Chappell, the writer of #HomeToRoost, #RisingDamp & many other shows died on Thursday,” Dinsdale tweeted. “Thank you for everything you did for me, Sir… your scripts were a complete joy to play. Great times! My love & deepest sympathies to his friends & family RIP Eric.”

Not many people could say their work was regularly seen by more than 17 million people, but Grantham-born writer Eric could.

Based above a solicitor’s office in Grove End Road,, Eric penned numerous stage plays and TV sitcoms, winning fame for 1970s and 80s classics such as Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh and Duty Free.

Eric was born in Commercial Road, his father a goods foreman on the railway.

He lived in Sidney Street for many years, and later Yarmouth Avenue, Tyson Close and Ropsley, before settling in Barrowby.

After leaving the Boys’ Central School and Grantham College, Eric became an internal auditor with East Midlands Electricity Board in Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

Although he was supposed to be studying for exams Eric was spending his time at home exploring his love of storytelling.

His first play – A Long Felt Want – was never produced, his second evolved into a critical and popular masterpiece and created Leonard Rossiter’s sneering landlord Rigsby, one of the most famous characters to grace the small screen. The play The Banana Box – which spawned Rising Damp – was first performed at Hampstead Theatre Club on November 29, 1970, and had its first public performance six months later in Leicester, starring Wilfrid ‘Steptoe’ Brambell as the landlord then called Rooksby.

For a while Eric led a secret life as an up-and-coming writer and only told his boss after spotting an a advert emblazoned on the side of a Leicester bus promoting The Banana Box – A new play by Eric Chappell.

He took up full-time writing in 1973, the year The Banana Box appeared in London’s West End with Rossiter and Frances de la Tour in the cast.

Rising Damp was commissioned by Yorkshire TV and piloted in 1974.It ran for four series and topped the ratings, and won Eric the BAFTA Award for best Situation Comedy in 1978, but ended on a sad note following the death of young co-star Richard Beckinsale.

It was not, however, Eric’s first television credit, as the comedy drama The Spanish Dancers, starring Henry McGee, was broadcast by HTV Wales only in 1971. And another sitcom, The Squirrels, was broadcast two months before Rising Damp. His success was not just a flash-in-the-pan as he had other TV hits with hospital comedy Only When I Laugh, starring James Bolam and Richard Wilson, Home to Roost, with John Thaw, The Bounder, with Peter Bowles, Haggard and Fiddlers

Eric also worked with Syston writer Jean Warr on sitcoms Singles and ratings-topper Duty Free – adapted from the stage play We’re Strangers Here and starred Keith Barron and Joanna Van Gyseghem.

Eric returned to writing for the theatre, with plays such as Up and Running, Something’s Burning, Haunted, Theft and Natural Causes.

Despite his huge TV successes Eric preferred writing for the stage, saying: “When I did shows on TV to 15 million people I got one phone call, but when you do a show in a theatre you get a real buzz from the audience’s reaction.”

Clive Short

April 22, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Clive Short passed peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on 15th April 2022 aged 62 years.

Dearly loved and greatly missed husband to Yvonne, loving dad to Nathan & the late Damien, a proud Grandpa to Tegan, Freya & Lacey.

“Through the final Furlong far too soon, but you are now at peace”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Wednesday 4th May 2022 at 1:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Clive are for the Injured Jockeys Fund and can be given on the day.

David Dalton

April 21, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

David Dalton passed peacefully at Nottingham City Hospital on 13th April 2022 aged 80 years, Dearly loved and greatly missed husband to Maria & Loving Dad to Paul.

“Greatly loved and deeply missed always”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham Crematorium on Tuesday 3rd May 2022 at 1:30pm, family flowers only please, donations in memory of David are for the work of Kidney Care UK and can be given on the day, all enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Michael Crowther

April 16, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Michael Crowther passed after a long illness bravely fought on 31st March 2022 aged 69 Years.

Dearly loved dad to Barry, loved brother of Jane, Julie & Titch. Dearly loved friend of Angela & David, Susan & Patrick.

“May you finally rest Michael, you will be so very dearly missed by all who knew and loved you”.

A private funeral service to be held at Price & Son Funeral Directors Chapel on Tuesday 26th April 2022 at 11am followed by a private cremation, The family request that all Michaels friends meet at the Railway club and the family will join you following the service.

All inquiries via price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

George Kemshell

April 5, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

George Kemshell passed after a long illness at Peterborough Hospital on 26th March 2022, aged 89 years.

Dearly loved and greatly missed husband to Avice, loving dad to Simon & Sarah, Proud Grandad to Amy, Steven, Kyle & Louisa, and loving Great grandad to Dominic, Molly, Oliver, Mason and Theo-George.

In accordance with Georges wishes there will be no funeral service.

The family would like to express their sincere thanks to all the staff at Yew Tree Care home in Bourne for their Love, care and attention while caring for George.

Arrangements by Price & Son Independent Family Funeral Directors 70 Castlegate Grantham NG31 6SH

Rose Bointon

April 4, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Rose Bointon passed peacefully after a short illness at Lincoln County Hospital on 28th March 2022, aged 84 years.

Dearly loved wife to the late Joseph Bointon, Loving mum to Heather, the late Carole, Louise & Lisa, proud Nan & Grandma to Zoe, Bryn, Charlene, Chantelle, Dale, Anne-Marie, Daniel, Luke, Shelby & Adam, dearly loved Great Grandma to Jordan, Courtney, Sharnie, Casey, Megan, Keira, Ryan, Tia, Elijah, Jalika, Kyle, Kyra, Liam & Evie. Great Great Grandma To Callie, Kayden, Oakley & Chloe-Marie.

“Finally Rey it’s with your beloved Joseph & Carole but so very dearly missed by all your loving family”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Wednesday 13th April 2022 at 11:30am.

Ffamily flowers only please, donations in memory of Rose are being collected for Cancer Research UK and can be given on the day, the family request that all attending to please wear and item of red. All inquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Director’s, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Patricia (Trish) Anne Magill

April 3, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Patricia ( Trish) Anne Magill passed peacefully after a long struggle with Dementia on 24th March 2022 aged 79 Years.

Dearly loved Mum to Alicia, Colette & Kerry, loving Grandma to Lewis, Alex, Ellis, Abigail and Isobel.

A Well loved colourful character who will be dearly missed by family and her many friends.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Tuesday 12th April 2022 at 1230, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Trish are being collected for Dementia UK and can be given on the day. All enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Director’s, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Edgar Hanson

March 29, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Local sportsman Edgar Bertram Hanson, has died at Katherine House Hospice, Adderbury, Oxfordshire. He was 85.

He will be missed by his family and many friends.

Employed at one time by Coles Cranes, Edgar played semi-profession football with Grantham Town, Bourne Town, Matlock, Ilkeston and Belper as well as Grantham Allstars.. He also helped youngsters take upo football with Terry Bly through Plamore Sports.

He also played cricket for Grantham and Boothby Pagnell.

The funeral has been arranged for 22nd April at 2pm at Banbury Crematorium. Flowers and /or Donations to Katherine House Hospice, Adderbury welcome.

Arrangements made by J & M Humphris Funeral Services, 32 Albert Street, Banbury OX16 5DG Tel: 01 295 265424.

Nicholas Smart

March 28, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Passed suddenly at home aged 53 years, Dearly loved son to Brian & Shirley, loving dad to Sam & Elspeth, loved brother to Marcia & Uncle to Tommy & Bryony, ex partner and dear friend to Mandy.

“Your passing leaves a huge hole in the lives of all who knew & loved you”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on a date to be announced, family flowers only please, donations in memory of Nicholas are being collected for Grantham Passage and can be given on the day, all enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

Melvyn Short

March 17, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Melvyn Short passed peacefully after a short illness on the 8th March 2022 aged 67 years.

Dearly loved husband to Heather, Dad to Maria, loved uncle to Dean & Mark and cousin to Ian.

“Missed so very much by all his extended family and many friends”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham crematorium on Tuesday 29th March 2022 at 2:30pm,

Family flowers only please.

Donations in memory of Melvyn are being collected for St Barnabas Hospice and can be given on the day, all enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Director’s, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

William (Will) Sinclair

March 15, 2022 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

William (Will) Sinclair passed peacefully after a long illness bravely fought on the 10th March 2022 aged 58 Years.

Dearly loved husband to Diane, loving Dad to Louise, Tanya, Darren & Jade, Proud grandad to Penelope.
“He will be so very Dearly missed by all his loving family & many friends”.

Funeral service to take place at Grantham Crematorium on Thursday 24th March 2022 at 11:30am.

Family flowers only please, donations in memory of Will are for the work of Harrowby Lodge comfort fund and can be given on the day, all enquiries via Price & Son Family Funeral Directors, 70 Castlegate, Grantham, NG31 6SH, 01476 593556

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Eric Chappel, (1933 – 2022 )

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