Sad news – RIP Robin Morris -Neil Armstrong reflects on a life-long friendship

 Life Vice President Robin Morris passed away last month. We send our sympathy to his family and friends.

Neil Armstrong remembers his friend of over seventy years

"I KNEW ROBIN THE BEST PART OF 70 YEARS BEGINNING IN CRAYFORD WHERE OUR PARENTS WERE ALSO FRIENDS. HE WENT TO DARTFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL WHILST I TRAVELLED TO GRAVESEND. I MOVED TO THANET IN 1964 AND JOINED THE WANDERERS A YEAR OR SO LATER. ROBIN ALSO CAME DOWN THIS WAY SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AND LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, JANET, IN ST NICHOLAS. HE TOO JOINED WANDERERS AND PLAYED REGULARLY FOR THE LOWER SIDES. HE THEN MOVED TO TENTERDEN, BUT SADLY HIS WIFE DIED. SOME TIME LATER HE MARRIED AGAIN TO ANN AND LIVED IN PIMPERNE IN DORSET. HE WAS VERY KEEN ON GOLF AND DESPITE A HEART BYPASS HE BECAME THE SENIORS CAPTAIN AT HIS LOCAL CLUB. 
HE DIED IN HIS SLEEP AND HIS FUNERAL WAS ON 6 AUGUST. SADLY I DID NOT ATTEND THE LATTER DUE TO THE LONG JOURNEY (HIS FUNERAL WAS IN POOLE) AND THE PREVAILING CONDITIONS"

21 August 2020