Tower and Town, December 2016 (view the full edition)Family NewsIan and Kathy Perryman and Mary Ewing recently went to Palazzola just outside Rome. The palace used to be the summer retreat for ordinands at the English College in Rome when the temperature soared. While there, courtesy of their Catholic friends, they had an audience with the Pope (along with hundreds of others) and received a blessing. Stewart and Marian Dobson, both former Mayors of Marlborough, have a new grandson, Rafferty, born to Nicholas and Arrabella, a sister for 2 year old Theadora. He is Stewart and Marian's 9th grandchild. Nick and Arrabella now live in London but both were brought up locally, Nick in Marlborough and Arrabella in Oxenwood. Nick was a very active member of both the Rugby and Cricket Club. Older local residents will remember Cyril Painter, who died on the 1st November at the age of 92, during the many years he was a smiling, friendly local police officer in Marlborough and Ramsbury. He was born near Stroud but went to the Grammar School here where he met his wife Pat. After his retirement they moved to Churchill Court. They worshipped at Christchurch. We send our sympathy to Pat and their three children Timothy, Pauline and Deborah and their families. David Bower was born in a cottage near St Peter's Church but his family moved to Herd St where he grew up with his five brothers and sisters and went to the local schools. He has died after a long illness. He married Rita, his wife, in 1952 and recently cared for her for some years before she died. He started work as an electrician with Marlborough Borough Council and then with the Southern Electricity Board until he retired. Our condolences to Julie and Sally and his five grandchildren. Friends and neighbours in Elcot Close were shocked at the death of Vanessa Cook, aged 51. She became ill at home and died a few days later with an aneurism in the brain. She was an organ donor and the fact that she gave her kidneys, liver and pancreas to help seriously ill patients was some comfort to her mother, Viv, and her children, Tamsin and Ziya. She grew up in the town with her sisters Samantha and Amanda. She had worked, before her son was born, as a hotel receptionist and at Townsends, Solicitors. She loved walking the three dogs in the countryside. Our sincere sympathy to all the family. Audrey Peck |