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Thread #147561   Message #3427747
Posted By: Colin Randall
29-Oct-12 - 10:12 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Barry Skinner (Oct 2012)
Subject: RE: Obit: Barry Skinner (Oct 2012)
Anne, Barry's partner, tells me he was adamant there should be no flowers at his funeral: :"... a bloody waste of money" ...

He did, however, hope people would donate instead to the
Gwynedd Haemotology and Cancer Relief Fund where he was treated. He was appallingly unlucky: surgery for small bowel cancer appeared to have been successful only for lung cancer, which had spread into a rib, to be found quite separately and it was this that caused his death.

The more detailed obituary mentioned in my earlier message now appears at ...


http://www.salutlive.com/2012/10/barry-skinner.html