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HERE are the death notices published in the Gazette this week:
JOHN ‘JAY’ TRAVIS: Sadly passed away 24th January 2021 aged 69 years. Leaving his wife Jenny in Teddington with siblings, family and friends in Colchester. There will be no funeral and we request that you please remember his wit, laughter and charm, he had a fantastic life, achieved many dreams and was one of the loveliest gentlemen you could ever meet. He is now in the Man in the Moon bar, with his brother Richard, raise a glass to him and wish him well on his new journey.
SHIRLEY ANN ENGLAND: England Shirley Ann 1933-2021 Passed away peacefully at home after a short illness. Loving Wife to John and Mother of David and Michael and Mother-in-Law to Dinah. A private service will be held at Colchester Crematorium and when conditions permit a celebration of Shirley s life will be held at Lion Walk Church.
Essex Police were called to the junction with Carnarvon Road, in Clacton, at around 9.50am today. The force had received reports that a pedestrian and a vehicle had been involved in a collision. The elderly man suffered serious head and neck injuries. Officers remain stationed at the scene and a roundabout in Wellesley Road, not far from the junction with Old Road, is currently closed off. A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: An ambulance was called out to a road traffic collision on Carnarvon Road in Clacton just before 10am this morning. A male patient was transported to Colchester General Hospital for further assessment and treatment.”
They met on an airplane to Egypt then fell in love
If everything had gone according to plan, they would probably never have met. But Mafalda Feliciano’s original British Airways flight from Brazil was overbooked, so she was bumped on to another and then fate played its hand.
Traveling with her sister and brother in law for a vacation in Egypt in September 2004, the group was re-routed via London.
After they lost their original seats, Feliciano ended up on her own, in the middle of a row, between two strangers.
By her own accounts, Feliciano, a then-37-year-old medical physicist from Brazil, is naturally shy and introverted. She had no intention of making conversation with the passengers on either side of her. Instead, she settled in for a quiet flight across Europe.