Brian Webb

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Sad to report that Brian Webb the former popular and public spirited Lock Keeper of Hurley has lost his battle against Cancer.
His funeral is at at Reading Crematorium @ 09:15 hrs on Friday 25 October.
 
The funeral details have changed...

Now confirmed as 10:00hrs, THURSDAY 24th October at Reading Crematorium
 
shades said:
It was actually a severe heart attack that took Brian away from us...
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Sorry Folks! I seem to have got everything wrong, my only excuse is I was passing on the information I received in an E Mail.
My abject apologies to anyone offended. Brian was one of humanities beacons and knowing him was a privilege for me.
 
Brian was one of the best, really good at his job, very friendly to boaters & (I hope I've got this right) was awarded a honour (MBE/OBE ?) for the enormous number of children he fostered. I'm a building inspector & he never let it drop when my son got his head stuck in the bannisters & was photographed in the Henley Standard - still telling everyone in the lock ten years after. What always amazed us was his ability to ensure there were no lock queues, he had the same assistant for many years and used to shove them in and out v quickly, not try and cram the lock, also remember his charity openings of the lock late at night regatta Saturday etc. Unfortunately I missed him at Peter Freebody's funeral, and with Trevor Green's passing a few weeks ago, yet another Hurley river person so sadly gone.
 
Byron,
Please do not feel that you were wrong... All of us act on the information received...
When I first heard, the information was based on cancer and also had the original funeral details.
I, like you, was busy passing on the information to those that I felt would be interested (not an easy task, but like you, I just got on with it)
I then received more accurate information, which included the altered funeral details, I then had to send out the revised info...
It was a severe heart attack, but they also discovered that his liver was badly affected by cancer...
 
I'm Karl hutchinson Brian's 1st grandson all I can say without crying still to this day is he was my hearow he looked after me and reard me like his one sun I miss him dearly saying that the hole family dus I for one have not been back home (herly lock ) since his passing tbh iv been lost ever since I'm broken hearted that my children never met him and got his love as I did as a child I no he's with us all. I'll shear a quick story with you him me and my uncal Harry wear in the filde stood by the electric fence uncal Harry needed a pee so he went to the corner as asked my old man to check the fence to see if it worked my old man sed no having never checked it so uncal Harry started peeing in the corner as he drifted to close to the fence he got an electric shock and he screened we wet awerselfs larghing just 1 little story for you all he was a sod for jokes ( thank you all for letting me shear with you ) I love you grandy
 
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