So sorry to learn of Ron’s death. I have a lot to thank him for in keeping me within the Godfrey clan after I was fostered following my fathers and then my mother death
. His took to looking out for me along with Ron’s Mum Dorothy and Joyce. He came to the children’s home I was in and took me to Middlebeck Avenue to play with my cousins, Nick, Caroline and Jackie and of course June too. She was the happiest person I knew with her big smile she met me with.
Ron also helped make my visit to Las Vegas to learn more about how the casino trade works for my signage business after telling me he visited and thought that it was.the most horrendous place he had ever been.
Judy and I went to see him before COVID put paid to visits, I took a carrier bag and placed it on the table and lifted it up toreveal a gleaming new steam engine. He studied it and as I turned it around to slow it all I asked if he recognised it, there was a glimmer and gave him clues as it was so different to the one I took away for restoration many years before. His eyes lit up and I explained that my brother in law Gilly had done the work. He told me that he had wondered where it went. We spent the next couple of hours trying to steam it up, a few leaks and wrong fuel put paid to that. I offered to give it back to him but after some thought he told me it was mine and originally belonged to my father.
Thankyou Ron for being a great person and a wonderful cousin, I will remember you until the day I die as I have the steam engine front and centre in my lounge as a memory of you.
Rest in Peace all our love Clive, Judy, Emma, Paul, Sarah Steve and Nicola
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