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Letter from Eric and Ada [?]… 'Do please accept our sincere and heartfelt sympathy for the terrible blow to you, which we only knew of yesterday when we opened the 'Beds Times' of the previous week which had just reached us. We had for some reason not had the previous week's issue which, from the reading of this one, must have given an earlier account of the circumstances. Whatever happened to our old friend your dear hubby? It is years now since we saw you but we always remember you and it is only because I must have left your address behind that we have not written to you before and given you our address here. However, when I read this account I remembered Deacon Av. and I knew that it could be no other than our old friend. It is not easy to express our feelings to you. We know what a good husband and father he was and how happy you all were together, the quiet pleasure which it always seemed to give him to be able to take you out in your car. We wonder about your children too. The last we remember is of your canny daughter studying hard and we have often wondered what success she had. Will we be asking too much if we beg of you, or your daughter, to write and tell us something about yourselves and this terrible occurrence? Perhaps when you have recovered you will do this for us. We do not come to Bedford because we have been tied to the house with nursing our sick old people since we came here, but if we do have an opportunity, we shall certainly look you up. For the time being I cannot say more than again to assure you of our grief at you loss'.

11 Jan 1953

From: 1953 To: 1953

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general death, cars accidents, road accidents, mourning, Bedfordshire Times, Kempston Deacon Avenue