21-11-2024, 06:37 PM
The service at the Crematorium outside Stourport yesterday really did feel like a celebration of Dave Tedham. He was a universally liked man, not just well known and respected in the Seven world but as a teacher, a painter, a story teller and even a rather respectable role as the president of a tennis club. Of the fifty or so of us in attendance, one might imagine that at least half had bought or sold Sevens from Dave. Whilst he liked to haggle and deal with prices, when it came to lending, giving or swapping tools, vital or necessary parts he could not have been more generous. The pictures of his competition career, the ACME gang and similar period events was made poignant by the presence of a number of the original people, many good stories were told afterwards in the golf club. A certain band lead the hearse to the side of the crematorium, and then played out the congregation. And whether it is a christening, a wedding, a bar mitzvah or a funeral, bonnets will have to be open and spanners in use in the car park.
