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Bryan Forbes died peacefully aged 81 on 8 January 2017 after a battle with COPD. Bryan, born 17 October 1935, on James Street, Dearnley, lived in Littleborough all his life.
Date Published 17/01/2017
Norman F Smith MBE funeral has been organised for Monday 23 January with a service at Rochdale Unitarian Chapel, Clover Street at 12.15, a private family comital at Rochdale...
Date Published 12/01/2017
Keith Hobson died suddenly on Thursday morning (12 January) at the age of 64. Keith moved to Rochdale at the age of 16 and started work as an apprentice motor mechanic at...
Norman Smith MBE died at the age of 84 on Wednesday (4 January) at Rochdale Infirmary after a long illness. He was born on 22 March 1932 and leaves behind his wife Shirley,...
Date Published 05/01/2017
Founder of the Rochdale & District Sunday League and former licensee, Frank Williams, died peacefully at his home at the age of 79 on Monday 5 December 2016.
Date Published 14/12/2016
Steven Howard is looking for his father, Douglas Gordon Law, from Rochdale. Douglas is believed to be around 65-years-old.
Date Published 12/12/2016
Joanne Eccles formerly Klieve (nee Mitchell) died suddenly on 16 October 2016. Joanne will have been known to many at the Littleborough RUFC as she managed a multitude of...
Date Published 04/11/2016
Dr Bindu Kafle, who has been a partner at Healey Surgery since February 2003, died on Monday (24 October) after a short illness.
Date Published 27/10/2016
Steve Brannigan unexpectedly died at Wythenshawe Hospital on Sunday 2 October 2016 at the age of 66 following a heart attack. The much-loved husband of Val Brannigan, 60, and...
Date Published 07/10/2016
Angela Margaret Norbury (formerly Hesbrook) passed away peacefully, aged 81, at Half Acre Care Home in Rochdale on the 21 September 2016.
Date Published 27/09/2016
Dorothy passed away peacefully on 15 August 2016. The much loved wife of Michael, dear Mum of Stephen, Alana and David and loving Nan of Lucy, Sammy, Corrine, Jade, Daniel and...
Date Published 18/08/2016
Maureen Rowbotham was the Labour Party councillor for North Middleton for over a decade and lived in Boarshaw for all of her life.
Date Published 03/08/2016
Peacefully and with dignity, surrounded by his loving family, Dave passed away on Thursday 14 July 2016, aged 67 years.
Date Published 19/07/2016
Peacefully after a short illness on 2 July 2016, Len aged 92 years. Loving husband and best mate of Christine for the past 42 years, dear dad of Andrew and Peter, much loved...
Date Published 15/07/2016
Pete died at the age of 64 on 19 April 2015. After retiring from full time work, Pete began working for Rochdale Online in 2012 and was described as “the oldest cub reporter in...
Date Published 19/04/2016
Rodney and June Stanley, who have just celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, have revealed their secrets to a long and happy marriage.
Date Published 25/03/2016
Stuart Carmichael died on Tuesday 16 February 2016. Stuart had a stroke in March 2013 and was in intensive care at Manchester Royal Infirmary, before returning home to...
Date Published 21/02/2016
Ronald Henry Williams, resident in Rochdale until his retirement, much loved husband of Hilda, née Cartwright (deceased), father of Wendy, and grandfather of Simon, died...
Date Published 05/02/2016
Former Castleton councillor Ted Flynn has died at the age of 79. Ted, who served as a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Castleton ward for more than 17 years, died at his...
Date Published 07/10/2015
Smith Victor Leslie, formerly of Rochdale, passed away peacefully in The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on 30 September 2015, aged 84 years. Beloved husband of Marjorie. He will...
Date Published 03/10/2015
The family of James Buxton, the husband of Shelly B’s Café owner, Shelly Buxton, have paid tribute to him following his death on Sunday 13 September. James died at his home at...
Date Published 16/09/2015
Barrie Bernstein, a leading figure in the Rochdale and Middleton areas for many years and the driving force behind the creation of the Rochdale Development Agency, has lost his...
Date Published 14/09/2015
It is with much sadness that the family of Keith William Hughes announce his death aged 72, peacefully at home in New Zealand, having resided there for the last 10...
Date Published 25/08/2015
Former Heywood police chief and war hero John ‘Jack’ Wilson has died at the age of 91. Mr Wilson died in his sleep on Thursday 13 August after a brief battle with lung...
Date Published 19/08/2015
Members of the MT Heads Motorcycle club have paid tribute to their founder, Derrick ‘Dez’ Warner, following his death on Wednesday 5 August. Dez, who suffered from Cystic...
Date Published 15/08/2015
Dr Abdur Razzaq was born 1 January 1935 in Toby-Tek-Singh in Pakistan. He graduated from Government College in Faisalbad and went onto study Medicine at Nishtar Medical College in...
Date Published 02/06/2015
Pete Hinchliffe has died at the age of 64. Pete, a retired nurse, trade union representative and Rochdale Online reporter, died at the Royal Blackburn Hospital on Sunday (19...
Date Published 22/04/2015
Dorothy Cronshaw, nee Jaques, died peacefully just after midnight on Thursday (2 April). Her funeral was held on Monday 13 April; around 30 people, a few family members and...
Date Published 14/04/2015
Sports journalist Jack Hammill has died at the age of 94. Born in 1920, Mr Hamill’s long career, which saw him cover Rochdale AFC for more than 60 years, began with him...
Date Published 27/03/2015
Dennis Babbs, a former mill manager and president and captain of Rochdale Golf Club, has died at the age of 83. Mr Babbs, who lived in Norden, was born in Barrow-in-Furness. He...
Date Published 10/03/2015
