Stephen Widdowson (22 Jan 1952 - 30 Jan 2023)
Funeral Director
- Location
- York Crematorium Bishopthorpe Road York YO23 2QD
- Date
- 3rd Mar 2023
- Time
- 10.20am
In loving memory of Stephen Widdowson who sadly passed away on 30th January 2023
Stephen was a retired Royal Mail worker who worked in Leeman Road sorting office then Leeds when it moved. He was known to many people as he used to walk around York. He didn't drive so was familiar to many taxi drivers in York during his working life and onging into retirement. He moved in with his mother when she returned to live in Osbaldwick around 2006 and remained there after she died in 2010.
His father was a village "bobby" so his early years were spent in Todmorden, Copmanthorpe and Wakefield. When he was 11, his father retired from the police force and they moved to Canada. Each time they came and went to/from Canada they would spend time with his mother's sisters in Hampshire, York or Cleveleys near Blackpool. Stephen did an electronics course at York Technical College and worked for a time in Blackpool Tower Ballroom doing the lighting display for the public sessions of ballroom dancing to music of the Wurlitzer organ, a job he loved. He loved to travel on trains especially between York and Blackpool where two of his aunties lived. His great hobby was photography and latterly DVDs, crosswords and word puzzle books. In the last few years he had many health problems and preferred an isolated life, happy and content at home.
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