JERICHO ECHO ARTICLE
June 2006
Bill, who lived with his wife Phyllis in Hart Street for over 40 years, died aged 78 in January from stomach cancer. Bill had served in the RAF in Palestine and Aden and came from Dublin to Jericho in the early 1960s to work in the presses at OUP. When the press was closed he worked first as a part-time porter at the Bodleian Library, then at Marks & Spencers. For the past ten years, however, and despite the onset of Alzheimer’s, he continued to work for ten years at Sainsburys where he was very popular with the customers, especially with the children. Bill will also be much missed in Jericho especially in the pubs where he was a keen singer and dancer, and always the life and soul of the party. Our sympathies to Phyllis and their two children, Sean and Jane.