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Thread #125980   Message #2799921
Posted By: GUEST,Ann Alexander and the Donkey
31-Dec-09 - 07:02 AM
Thread Name: 2009 Obit: Bob Gilroy(South Tyne Folk & Blues)
Subject: RE: Obit: Bob Gilroy(South Tyne Folk & Blues) Dec2009
The singing of 'Down in the Valley' at the service was one of the most moving events I've experienced at a funeral. I can't believe the number of people who turned up, Bob certainly made an impression. Thanks Bob for encouraging me with singing in the early days, as also did my friends Jenny hunt and Fran Weetman.
Dave, the Marsden Inn reception was both sad and happy, Bob would have loved it, seeing loads of people from the past, with some Blues music, a poen from Barry Wood and a song from the Birtley people. They had to get in extra food.

Gilroyisms? I loved his joke about 'Higher gorwilla' and it was clean as well! From Ann