Obituaries

THE founder of the special care baby unit at St Mary’s Hospital and a consultant paediatrician on the IW for nearly 30 years, Dr Ted Mucklow, has died, aged 78.

STAUNCH fundraiser Mike Wray has died, aged 75, after a long illness.
Mr Wray, of Queens Road, Ryde, was also a committed Rotarian, longstanding member of the congregation at Ryde’s All Saints’ Church and known by many as owner of the Garden Tavern at Ventnor Botanic Garden.

A FORMER Shanklin hotelier who took in troops during the Second World War has died, aged 102.
Edith Gallop-Hooper, of Greyfriars Residential Home, Shanklin, was born in Portsmouth, to Henry and Eliza Evans, and was one of five children.

SEAVIEW Regatta stalwart, retired PE teacher and former village postwoman Robyn Hersey has died at Woodside Hall nursing home, Wootton. She was 70.
Born in Colchester, Essex, she came to the Island in 1949, when her father took up the post of head herdsman at a farm in Mottistone.

SANDOWN-born lifesaver and former mayoress of the town, Olive Edna Saunders, died at her home last Thursday, aged 76.
An outstanding swimmer and fully trained lifeguard, she was a former chairman of the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) and trained many hundreds of people to swim, including the disabled. She also promoted water safety in Island schools.

WILLIAM Macdonald, a familiar and colourful figure in Cowes, died at St Mary’s Hospital last Friday, aged 60.
Mr Macdonald was born on May 26, 1949, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia, a British colony).

WELL-known retired Island farmer, John James Kingswell, died at St Mary’s Hospital, aged 86, after a short illness.

FORMER Southern Vectis employee, Peter Pink, 61, has died at his Lake home following a heart attack.

MUSIC teacher Marjorie Moireen Bligh-Wall died at Byrnhill Grove care home, Ventnor, on January 23, aged 106.

A Ventnor artist, who was a significant figure in the world of religious art, died on Sunday, aged 81.
John Reilly, of Madeira Road, Ventnor, whose distinctive paintings have been shown at cathedrals around the country and are held in public collections across the UK, was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1928.

A MAN well known in Island sporting circles, particularly at the cricket clubs of Shanklin and Ventnor, has died, aged 95.

PRISCILLA Yates, who was affectionately known as Cilla, died on Tuesday, aged 55, following a battle with motor neurone disease.

A FORMER chairman of the IW Council — described by friends as the rock on which proper Island government was founded — has died, aged 80.

WELL-known Newport businessman Tudor David Radcliffe has died, peacefully, at St Mary’s Hospital, aged 81.
Tudor David Radcliffe, known as Dave, was born in Port Talbot, South Wales, in 1928.

A FOUNDER member of the Vectis Astronomical Society, Roger Miles Hayward, died at St Mary’s Hospital, Newport, on Thursday last week, aged 67.