A FORMER schoolteacher from Rossendale who died in Sussex will be brought home for his funeral on Friday to be buried in the family vault.
It is 32 years since Jack Trickett left the Valley after working as a teacher in Whitewell Bottom Secondary School and Tunstead Primary School in Stacksteads twice before and after the Second World War.
He also worked at St Paul's, Ramsbottom.
Mr Trickett's daughter, Jacqueline Grimwade, said: "My father's brother died nine years ago but my father is the first one to be buried in the family plot for 35 years."
Because Mr Trickett lived in Fletching, East Sussex, Mrs Grimwade confirmed that the family will be charged £1 a mile for the distance the hearse travels, after the first 30 miles.
Mr Trickett, 85, leaves his widow Betty, seven children, all of whose names start with J, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be on Friday at St Anne's, Edgeside, at 11.30am before the internment in the church grounds.
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