A personal tribute by Ion Castro to Ron Fellows, a friend, colleague and contributor to ‘Hastings Town’. Ron Passed away in St.Michael’s Hospice on 15th July 2011 after a short illness and his funeral took place at Hastings Cemetery on 28th July.
Category: Obituaries
The Obituaries section gathers Rye’s Own reporting, features and recollections on this part of local life. From “Ernest Charles Apps”, “David Smeed”, “Ron’s Gone”, “Sad News”, and “James Ernest Hollands (Jim)”, the archive offers several starting points for exploring the subject. The result is a varied record of the district, told by writers who noticed both the headline events and the revealing details around them.
Bessie Sylvia (Rusty) Ellis nee Keetch
30th. June 1910-10th April 2011 By Jack Hemmings Rusty Ellis passed away in her sleep, in her own own home, during her 101st year following a short illness. She was born in Bedfordshire before the start of WW1. Rusty was born Bessy Keech in Cardington near Bedford on the day that Florence Nightingale died. Two … Continue reading Bessie Sylvia (Rusty) Ellis nee Keetch
Joan Camier
From Rye’s Own April 2010 Motor Cycles and Movie Films were her Passion 1925 – 2010 By Jim Hollands It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Joan Camier. I spoke to her last outside Magdala House in 2008 before she moved to Nothiam to live with, and be looked … Continue reading Joan Camier
John Ryan
John Ryan is with us no longer. Rye’s hero cartoonist, who created the famous Captain Pugwash and many other children’s cartoons has died aged eighty-eight.
Ex-Rye Fireman Dies in New Zealand
by Roland Jempson. How strange, that in the April edition of “Rye’s Own” there should be an article of the Rye Fire Brigade in 1952. This edition dropped on my doorstep in Bristol at the same time as I heard the news of the Death and Funeral of my brother in law Harry Martin., once … Continue reading Ex-Rye Fireman Dies in New Zealand
Tommy Sinden
Tommy Sinden Dies in Tasmania Many older readers will remember Tom ‘Tommy’ Sinden who recently died in Tasmania aged 83. Tom Sinden, older brother of Francis Sinden of North Salts, was born in Rye in 1922. He was educated in Rye and took up an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator on leaving school at … Continue reading Tommy Sinden
Ernest Charles Apps
Ernest Charles Apps (1927-2004) A Rye Character by R Wylson Irascible, intelligent, cantankerous, scurrilous, interesting, perverse, opinionated, cultured, argumentative, frugal, irreverent. These are all adjectives used to describe Ernie Apps, who, by universal agreement, was indeed a Rye character.
In Memory of Nellie
Ellen Mary Owen (Nellie) Affleck (Bailey). Older readers will remember ‘Nellie’ Bailey who emigrated to Canada after the War.Ellen passed away on 17 January 2004 aged 89. She leaves a son and daughter grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Hazel
From “Rye’s Own” November 2003 Three Interests Hazel Duckworth, well known Rye antiques expert, familiar to all in the trade who attended Rye Auction Galleries and numerous Antique
English Meat Only
English meat only reads the sign on the side of Neeves the Butcher’s van. Bert Neeves is seen here giving the Caister family’s dog Joe a bone on his regular delivery trip to Rye Harbour before WW2