TOP PEOPLE READ THE TIMES
If you’re of a certain age (ie, shortly to make the acquaintance of Reaper G) you’ll remember that advertising slogan. It made you worry whether you qualified to buy The Times – whether the newsvendor would cock an eye and snarl, “You ‘avin a larf?”
Society isn’t so stratified these days. And what with the internet, death announcements in newspapers aren’t what they were – just a handful, now. You probably make for them in your paper because, being a deathie, you are drawn by the dark force that is your mainspring. I’m not a deathie. What draws me is social trends the announcements exhibit. The Times, after all this time, remains the newspaper of the Establishment, so you’d expect the readership to be small-c conservative.
Here are yesterday’s (Thurs) Times death announcements reduced to age, description of event and venue. Anything here that interests you?
Barnes – 83 – funeral – St Peter’s http://laparkan.com/buy-sildenafil/ church Ravenshead, committal Mansfield crematorium.
Barrowcliff – funeral – St Mary’s RC church Warwick
Coull – 65 – ‘A private cremation has already taken place.’ Service of thanksgiving All Saints Marlow on 7 March.
Duncan – 96 – All enquiries to undertaker
Ellory – 94 – funeral – Sacred Heart Cobham
Felkin – funeral – St Andrew’s church St Helier
Glyn – 94 – funeral – St Andrew’s Sonning
Herbert – 89 – Requiem Mass – Catholic church Ilkley
Hopkinson – 62 – private cremation – Party to Remember
Jaggers – 78 – enquiries to undertaker
Manson – 77 – private funeral, no flowers
Parsons – funeral – Westminster cathedral
Percy – 92 – enquiries to undertaker
Russell – 88 – funeral – enquiries to undertaker
Speer – 103 – funeral – St John’s Southbourne
Taverner – 86 – private cremation – service of remembrance Urchfont parish church
Wernberg-Moller – 92 – funeral – St Nicholas, Old Marston
Woodthorpe – 89 – private family cremation – service of thanksgiving St Paul’s Woldingham
