OBITUARIES OF 2006

Extracts from one or two obituaries which you may have missed this year:





Ipanema Huddle (Musician (1919-2006)

“... her early mastery of the Azorean slide trombone is said to have influenced men as different as Yehudi Menuhim and Shirley Bassey…”

Loon Gamelan (Politician, Statesman and Rumba Champion)

… guided his tiny Caribbean nation to independence through the choppy waters of the 1950’s. Will best be remembered for his cover version of I Enjoy Being A Girl which went to Number One in three countries none of them Britain…”

Professor Geraint Manifold (Plug Technologist (1942-2006)

… his work on rubber bung dynamics at the University of Wales during the 1970’s is still regarded as a benchmark in the field…”

Lt. Col. Jock Grant-Menzies (Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Spy) (1918-2006)

… it was during the dark days of 1940 that the young subaltern won his George Cross for a daring raid on the Italian positions at Mascara in what was then Italian Somaliland and is now Carphone Warehouse.

Zinnia Thickness (Childrens’ Author) (1934-2006)
“...her own schooldays were fraught with loneliness, as pupils at St. Cedd’s were only allowed to send one letter a week, and that to the Home Secretary pressing for an early release for the school chaplain, the Rev. Glubb-Pasha.

Professor Sir Derek Snowball (Historian and Author) (1924-2006)
“… his 1961 book Marital Breakdown in Fifteenth Century Flanders brought him a worldwide audience and was later made into a film with Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida.

‘Digger’ or ‘Chigger’ Boondock (Entertainer) (1929-2006)
“…one of the finest Post-War limbo dancers that Surrey has ever produced… Sadly, in later years Boondock became increasingly reclusive and would only speak through his solicitor, which was a small glove puppet called ‘My Solicitor Mr. Jowell.’