Obituaries

MILFORD conservation champion Sandra Ebbetts has died at the age of 79.

NEW Forest businessman Paul Nicholas, who gave generously to help young people with learning and physical disabilities, has died at the age of 84.

A COMMUNITY stalwart who was a former head teacher of two New Forest schools has died aged 79.

FORMER A&T typesetter and digital designer Ivan Markes has died at the age of 77.

A WELL-LOVED member for many years of St John Ambulance and a former governor of Foxhills Junior School, Gordon Fillis, has died at the age of 93.

KNOWN both to his customers and family as ‘Mr Fix-it’ there was little that former ironmonger Tony Puzey could not repair.

LONGSTANDING Lymington hairdresser and sailor Tony Collard has died at the age of 86.

A DISTINGUISHED scientist with a lifelong love of New Forest deer has died at the of 92.

TRIBUTES have been paid to sailing enthusiast and former chair of the Lymington Sporting Gun Club, David Miller, who died aged 70.

WELL-known businessman John Dunning, who ran a butchers shop, clothing store and most recently Milford Supplies, has died aged 85.

WELL-known Lyndhurst antique dealer Patricia Rashleigh has died after a short battle with cancer.

RETIRED Milford butcher Dave Gregory has died at the age of 67 after a long battle with vascular dementia.

LYMINGTON sailor Les Powles, who sailed single handily around the world three times, has died at the age of 96.

A TALENTED equestrian and president of New Forest Carriage Driving for the Disabled, Audrey Williams, has died at the age of 97.

BORN one of premature twins who were not expected to survive, Jack Gittoes went on to live for 84 years becoming a talented electronics engineer.

TRIBUTES have been paid to William Wild, an innovative electronics engineer from Lymington who has died aged 94.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Lymington and Pennington councillor after his death aged 74.

FOR Tony Pearse, the sea was a lifetime passion which saw him serve in the navy then spend the rest of his life working a succession of related jobs.

A FORMER Lyndhurst parish councillor who served the community for more than 35 years and ran a nursery in the village has died aged 92.

EQUESTRIAN, sailor and former RAF Wing Commander Derek Harvey has died at the age of 101.