A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Wednesday February 24 for Mr James Leslie Roe, who died peacefully in hospital on February 12. He was aged 91 years.
The service was conducted by the Rev Stuart Grant and the organist was Mr Steven Westaway.
Jim was born in Lockington in 1925, the son of Charlotte and Sidney Roe and was one of eight children – he had five brothers and two sisters. He lived in and around Lockington during his early life , and grew up at Rid Yat Cottages. He left school at the age of 14 and was hired out to various farms at Garton and Aike.
Jim joined the RAF at 18 and was sent out to Burma. He was demobbed at the end of the war and returned to a job at High Grange Farm, Aike.
He met his wife-to-be, Ivy, who lived in Leconfield and they married in 1947. They went on to have four children – Peter, Gillian, Heather and Paul – and lived in a cottage in Aike.
In 1962 Jim moved job and started working at Rectory Farm, Lockington, the family moved to live in Beswick until retirement when they moved to live in Cranswick.
Jim had a number of interests. He loved gardening, especially growing vegetables. He played cricket and football for Lund, Lockington and Cranswick. He enjoyed trips out in the countryside including the Wolds, the Dales and the Moors. He enjoyed his holidays both at home and abroad.
For some 40 years until he retired , Jim delivered the Sunday papers and magazines round the local villages, such as Aike, Wilfholme, Lockington and Kilnwick.
He loved spending time with his eight grandchildren and his seven great grandchidren .
Jim was the salt of the earth and a true Yorkshireman and he will be greatly missed by his family.
Family mourners: Ivy Roe (wife), Peter and Karen Roe (son and daughter in law), Gillian and Terry Farmery (daughter and son in law), Heather and Alan Nicholson (daughter and son in law), Paul and Yvonne Roe (son and daughter in law), Kane Howdle.
Christian Tate (grandsons), Richard Tate and Paul Sammut (grandson and partner), Matthew Roe, Daniel Roe, Benjamin Roe (grandsons), Sarah Roe and Mark Filsher (granddaughter and partner), Nichola Roe (granddaughter), Dennis Roe (brother), Joe and June Roe (brother and wife).
Others present: Rev Stuart Grant rep Mr and Mrs Albert Grant and Alistair Grant, Brian and Valerie Marshall, David and Ruth Flintoft, Linda Hall rep David Flintoft, Elaine Dixon, Ann and Roland Boynton, Doreen Nettleship, Mrs D Knowles.
Mr Ron Joy, Keith and Sue Baxter, Margaret and Peter Ellerington, Andrew Ellerington, Bridget Ellerington and Richard Jennings, Maggie Duncan rep Sylvia Duncan, Sandra Waite rep Chris Waite, Karen Demoulpied, Heather and Trevor Edmond, Bob and Nina Burton rep the family, Neil and Julie Dowson, Cyril Tate, Deborah Richmond, Nicholas King, Mr and Mrs M Sims, Robert Goodlass.