P SH 1941 - 1948
As part of TWS calling OWs in 2021, we have learnt that Richard Addyman sadly passed away in 2018. Speaking with his second wife of 22 years, Barbara, TWS learnt of the lovely life they had had together and his quirky sense of humour.
Following school, Richard went straight into the family grocer business. He married and had two children, a son and a daughter.
In retirement, he enjoyed travel, cycling and walking. He would talk fondly of his Wycliffe days and was in touch with several of his contemporaries in the last few years of his life as he and his friends from school realised that time was passing.
Latterly, Richard was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was brave at the end, always said that he’d had a good life and resisted taking the stronger medication because he wanted to donate his body to medical research. He is currently at Birmingham University Hospital in the Birmingham Anatomical Unit. Barbara said, he’d always wanted to go to university so this was one way of going!
A poem that Richard quoted towards the end:
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Our thoughts are with the family.
