All enquiries to Cutgate Funeralcare tel 01706 643215. Family flowers only please.ĭonations in loving memory of Matthew are gratefully accepted for the Alzheimer's Society. Highly respected and sadly missed.įuneral to be held on Wednesday 26th October 2022 at 11:10am at Rochdale Crematorium, Bury Road, Rochdale OL11 4DG. Matthew was a devoted and loyal friend to many. Proud Grandad of Emma, Sam, Dan, Ben and Jake. Wonderful Dad of Kathryn, Caroline and Michael. Matt passed peacefully in his sleep on the 2nd October 2022, aged 81 years. Family flowers only please, donations if desired to The Alzheimer's Society. Will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.įuneral Service to take place on Friday 21st October 2022 at East Lancashire Crematorium, Radcliffe at 10:30am. Loving wife to the late William, much loved mum to Graeme and Gillian, cherished Mother-in-law to Alison and the late Peter.ĭevoted Grandma to Caroline and Laura and dear Granny to George, Ava and Isabelle. Sadly passed away on the 4th October 2022, aged 93 years. Here are a selection of notices published earlier this week.

To read the latest announcements and add tributes to those from our area who have passed away, click here. Every notice remains online forever providing friends and families with a lifelong tribute to their loved one, a safe place online to share memories, add tributes, photographs and make donations in memory.Įach week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. Nenen is a joy to sit and converse with, quite humorous and collective on current events because she listens daily to her favourite radio station and many others.Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news media is a long standing tradition and we are proud of the trust placed in us to make these important announcements.Įvery notice published to our newspaper and news site also appears on .uk - the UK’s number one site for death notices and memoriams. She has proudly raised five of her fifteen grandchildren, all of whom love and highly respect and cherish her daily. She recently spoke on how she is forever grateful to God, as many have passed on and she is still alive in this century because of God’s favour and mercy. She loves singing and when she gets up to testify of the goodness of her God, please give her time as she has so much to be thankful for. She loves her congregation and attends services every Sunday. Sis Gladys is born-again believer and has been a member of the Villa Nazarene Church since its inception and remembers worshipping at Princess Margaret School before the church’s present location on Amy Byers Street. Despite this, she is by no means handicapped and still takes pride in doing many things for herself. Through routine check-ups with her doctor, it was found that she had developed glaucoma and thirty-five years later she is completely blind. And then, when ladies needed a hairstyle she would fix them up with plaits of rope or congo. She speaks of working at Miss Tavernier’s store selling cloth by the bale and hats. When recalling places of employment, she is quick to mention Langfords, Cedar Valley and Wescot. Upon leaving school she earned her living by washing, cleaning, working in the canefield and picking cotton. She also has many stories of growing up through her adult life to keep one entertained for hours. She speaks often of old market and Icehouse at Brysons, where her caretaker was a butcher, and would reminisce on having different cuts meat.

She says proudly she received and confirmed at the Moravian church on S.

In later years, when the point school was built students of point attending girls school were relocated there, and she continued to completed her education until Seventh Standard. Growing up Miss Hodge attended the Moravian school at five years old and then moved on to the girls school at country pond. Mother of five children four boys- Kenneth Evanson, Charles and Carlton Green, Fitzroy Lake and one girl Verlyn Samuel Deceased. She is affectionately known as Nenen, Sis Gladys, Little mother, Little one. Her favourite foods are rice and chicken along with pineapple pizza. She was also related to Percy and Freddie Jude. She was born to Constance Simmons, but raised by Phillip Jude, on lower Bishopgate Street. Gladys Delores Hodge was born on December 20th, 1917.

Happy birthday gladys