{"id":4186,"date":"2017-07-29T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T08:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4186"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:00:34","slug":"obituaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4186","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town has very sadly lost several of its well known and valued residents over the years. Where obituaries and remembrances are available they will be published here (alphabetically by surname). Historical information on many Bollingtonians are <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4168\">listed on another page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5047\">Betty Bonson<\/a> &#8211; town councillor and mayor, council employee, community activist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5062\">Dr John Coope&nbsp;<span class=\"smaller\">MBE<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; doctor, social reformer, musician, biographer, leader<\/li>\n<li>Peter Davies &#8211; Glider pilot in WWII, lived to October 2025, age 103!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=17459\">Greeve, Albert &amp; Zena (n\u00e9e Perkin)<\/a> &#8211; Zena was a well known ladies hairdresser<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5070\">Claude Harlington&nbsp;<span class=\"smaller\">MBE<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; town clerk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5074\">Bryon Holmes<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; plumber, golfer, humourist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5083\">Harry Pleeth&nbsp;<span class=\"smaller\">MBE<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; industrialist, scout leader<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=7755\">Eric Wainwright<\/a> &#8211; pictures and films of Bollington<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5154\">Richard Warren<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; town councillor and mayor, community activist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town has very sadly lost several of its well known and valued residents over the years. Where obituaries and remembrances are available they will be published here (alphabetically by surname). Historical information on many Bollingtonians are listed on another page. Betty Bonson &#8211; town councillor and mayor, council employee, community activist Dr John Coope&nbsp;MBE&nbsp;&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20882,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4186\/revisions\/20882"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}