http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/ Liverpool Daily Post tributes - remembering our local Liverpool and Merseyside people en-gb Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/24/jo-stafford-64375-21394033/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/24/jo-stafford-64375-21394033/ SOMETIMES she was known as Darlene Edwards and, when she was parodying the hilly-billy style and drawling speech, she favoured Cinderella G Stump. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/23/lord-stokes-64375-21387410/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/23/lord-stokes-64375-21387410/ IT WAS said that the man, with glinting spectacles and an enthusiasm for double-decker buses, could have sold Morris Marinas to Marsh Arabs. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/22/tony-melody-64375-21380261/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/22/tony-melody-64375-21380261/ THE appointments’ panel at a firm of undertakers, seeing him walk through the door, could have told the other applicants to go home. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/21/hugh-mendl-64375-21375313/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/21/hugh-mendl-64375-21375313/ THE public school boy, who had been groomed for the diplomatic service, didn’t actually give birth to The Beatles himself. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/18/dorothy-bradburn-64375-21362890/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/18/dorothy-bradburn-64375-21362890/ SHE disliked the way our local press gives precedence to a person’s place of birth or residence, rather than their achievements – as in the Tupelo crooner, Mr Elvis Presley, or the son of a Kirkcaldy minister, Mr Gordon Brown. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/17/charles-joffe-64375-21355361/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/17/charles-joffe-64375-21355361/ HE WAS the epitome of the extroverted, fast-talking, tough-negotiating, cigar-chomping, Brooklyn-born showbiz agent and one of his clients, the actor Robin Williams, described him affectionately as “the Beast”. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/16/hugh-lloyd-64375-21348343/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/16/hugh-lloyd-64375-21348343/ HE WAS the only celebrity supporter of Chester City Football Club, perhaps explaining his wonderfully long, but crumpled, face, which suggested the pessimism of a down-trodden suburbanite in permanent expectation of rain, while clinging to the threads of middle-class respectability. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/15/valerie-bennett-levy-64375-21340061/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/15/valerie-bennett-levy-64375-21340061/ IT IS a profoundly religious ceremony, in which the monarch hands out Maundy money to the poor, on the day before Good Friday, in remembrance of Christ washing the feet of His disciples. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/14/ruth-greenglass-64375-21334584/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/14/ruth-greenglass-64375-21334584/ SHE was the wife of one of the key protagonists in the atomic spy wars that gripped the public in the 1950s, and sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/11/dorian-leigh-64375-21323303/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/11/dorian-leigh-64375-21323303/ IT IS perhaps surprising that the willowy beauty, adored by photographers, lipstick advertisers and movie-makers, who cruised through five husbands in a career which makes today’s supermodel, Kate Moss, seem like a girl guide, should have studied calculus at university. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/10/fred-yates-64375-21315592/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/10/fred-yates-64375-21315592/ YOU don’t expect a great artist to be called Fred – Frederico, maybe, but not plain Fred. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/09/elizabeth-spriggs-64375-21308172/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/09/elizabeth-spriggs-64375-21308172/ SHE wobbled around the jowls while her bosom quivered with splendid indignation and she was, of course, magnificently cast as Lady Gay Spanker, sporting jodphurs and whip, in the Restoration-style romp London Assurance. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/08/sir-charles-wheeler-64375-21300847/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/08/sir-charles-wheeler-64375-21300847/ BENEATH the professorial eccentricity of his eyebrows, there was the grey stare of a man who had observed the ways of fools in many lands and had very little reason to suppose that the future held anything better. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/07/william-buchan-64375-21298650/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:58:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/07/william-buchan-64375-21298650/ IT IS perhaps sad that, in the end, his most lasting offering to the world might be the biography of his father. William Buchan, the writer and third Lord Tweedsmuir, was doomed to be judged against his father, John (1875-1940), whose rattling yarns not only thrilled boys, but were widely praised for their narrative flow and descriptive passages. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/04/lyall-watson-64375-21226576/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/04/lyall-watson-64375-21226576/ THE fellow with the brilliant if maverick mind, who introduced Fred the tapeworm to his system in the belief it would help combat stomach disorders on his extensive travels, was not easily dismayed by the banality of conventional thinkers. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/03/leonard-pennario-64375-21219443/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/03/leonard-pennario-64375-21219443/ SOME devotees said that the handsome chap, who briefly dated Elizabeth Taylor, when she was in a lull between husbands, was the finest musician to step out of Buffalo, the flour-milling city on the banks of Lake Erie. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/02/irina-baronova-64375-21215672/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:55:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/07/02/irina-baronova-64375-21215672/ SHE was known as one of the three famous "Baby Ballerinas", renowned for her graceful and sophisticated style, which belied her age. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/30/kermit-love-64375-21170901/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/30/kermit-love-64375-21170901/ IT WAS perhaps a small burden to carry in an astonishing life, but most people assumed that Kermit, the wise-cracking but sensitive frog, had been named after the chap with a snowy beard, which looked like it should have been hanging on a grotto peg. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/27/cliff-hall-64375-21159524/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/27/cliff-hall-64375-21159524/ IT WAS, in its own way, almost as significant to Liverpool’s music as the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at St Peter’s Church fete, Woolton, in 1957. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/26/david-caminer-64375-21152334/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/06/26/david-caminer-64375-21152334/ THEY were the soul of the chattering, hat-pinned England of refained voices and pursed lips, sitting at their tables in the cafes.