Obituaries

William Meads (in the while bottle hat on the boat) during a visit from Santa at Poole Quay

OBITUARY: Setchfields newsagent founder Bill Meads dies aged 93

Obituary: Second World War veteran and Daily Echo advertising manager John Jones

Obituary: Vernon Maitland who owned Excelsior Coaches

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Obituary: Michael Green, former mayor and voice of tourism, has died aged 92

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Obituary: Jim Courtney, former firefighter and mayor, has died aged 85

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Obituary: D-Day and Dunkirk evacuation veteran Derek Findley

Obituary: Former civil engineer Martyn Thresh dies aged 73

Obituary: Former ballerina Grace Greenway dies aged 94

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Obituary: Policeman and founder of Ferndown Aerial Company Gordon Chapman

Obituary: Former AFC Bournemouth player Chris Weller

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Obituary: Popular Wimborne community champion Eleanor Dunningham

Obituary: Founder of Poole-based tea business Roy Pierce dies aged 80

Obituary: Tucktonia creator and Formula Three racing driver Harry Stiller dies

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Obituary: Poole lifeboat coxswain John Clark dies aged 83

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Obituary: Actor Peter Byrne, of Dixon of Dock Green, dies aged 90

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Obituary: East Dorset councillor and chairman Ray Dudman

Obituary: Parkstone Golf Club pro and PGA Cup team captain Keith Hockey

Obituary: D-Day quartermaster Eric Steele

Obituary: Boyd Mortimer, popular rugby player and councillor

Obituary: composer Graham Stansfield formed prog rock band Rare Bird and wrote Agony theme song

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Obituary: Organiser of Dorset's first Beaver colony Ruth Wingfield

Obituary: Former Cherries player Rod Taylor

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Obituary: Former Dorset County Councillor Jenny Kellaway

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Obituary: Chris Read, popular cricket umpire, has died

Obituary: Former Girl Guides commissioner, Audrey Reeks, dies aged 87

Obituary: Former Sovereign Centre manager Simon Clayton-Paine 'always enjoyed going to work each day'

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Obituary: D-Day veteran Bill Price dies aged 103

Obituary: Former PE teacher and Wimbledon umpire Ruth Barclay

Obituary: Tony Williams, the last chief executive of Bournemouth Borough Council

Obituary: Fred Winwood, former mayor who worked on Poole Power Station, has died aged 91

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Obituary: Lewis Gilbert, director of three James Bond films and fellow of Arts University Bournemouth

Obituary: Former Wren Pauline Alicia Browning

Obituary: Golf enthusiast and Wimborne Minster guide Keith Smart has died aged 85

Obituary: Former Bournemouth headteacher Ralph Cooper dies aged 86

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Obituary: Carer and campaigner Patricia Moore

Obituary: D-Day veteran Ted Young

Obituary: Owner of Dudsbury Golf Club, David 'Brabs' Braban, has died aged 78

Obituary: Castle Court School founder Mary Donald Scott dies at the age of 90

Obituary: Bournemouth Sinfonietta clarinettist Patrick Balson Dingle

Obituary: Council leader, GP and complementary health practitioner John Millward

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DARING sailor cut Japanese telegraph lines using midget submarine

Obituary: Richard Gillett, OBE, dies aged 98

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Obituary: Former mayor and district council chair Nellie 'Queenie' Comfort

Obituary: Tenpin bowling champion Josephine Chapman dies aged 71

Obituary: Former Poole councillor Jane James dies aged 73

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Community champion Gil Streets who was a “friend to everybody” dies aged 82

Long-standing former Bournemouth councillor, Basil Ratcliffe, dies at 89

Obituary: ‘Mother Christmas’ Edna Phillips-Pitman dies aged 91

Obituary: Former Ferndown mayor and estate agent, Peter Roberts, dies at the age of 84

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OBITUARY: Dedicated Bournemouth nurse, Debbie Doughty, dies at the age of 60

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OBITUARY: Milford Motors owner and Jaguar car restorer John Scardifield dies at 72

Obituary: Peter Staples, former Christchurch and Dorset councillor, dies at 89

Obituary: Frank Bradford, one of longest surviving kidney transplant patients, dies at 82

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