Obituaries

WELL-KNOWN local tourist guide Mary Baker has died peacefully in Stratford Hospital after a long illness borne with fortitude and humour. She was 86. Born Mary Elizabeth Allen in Birmingham, she...

GARY COLDRON, a well-known and much-liked former dentist in Stratford died on a lake in Wilmcote during a fishing trip on Sunday 5th May. Known to many Stratfordians because of his...

A WELLESBOURNE man who championed the needs of the village for decades, died on Monday, a week after receiving a surprise award for 40 years of service on the local...

TERRY COLLINS, typesetter and proof-reader at the Herald for over 35 years, has died at the age of 70, mourned by friends and colleagues as generous, kind, sensitive and an...

A FORMER deputy head of Stratford Grammar School for Girls, Joan Griffith, died on 26th April at the Bentley Nursing Home in Stratford. She spent her childhood here in Stratford,...

A STRATFORD-upon-Avon scientist who turned down a knighthood and helped secure the future of crop-growing in Britain during the Second World War has died at the age of 101. Denley Wright...

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON actor Richard Griffiths, who died at the age of 65 after complications following heart surgery, maybe best known for playing Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films and Uncle...

THE funeral of former Bidford-on-Avon and Shipston-on-Stour older people’s activist Brian Keith Tafft took place at St Swithin’s Church, Barston, near Solihull on 18th March. Brian was born in Guildford,...

THE funeral of David Houghton, of Jubilee Close, Bidford, took place at St Laurence Church on Friday. Mr Houghton had died on 18th February from chronic kidney failure, at the...

PETER NAYLOR, who died on 25th February aged 85, was a proud Stratfordian who spent most of his career working in the town, and made a significant contribution to local...