SHOPFITTER Mr Sydney Stokes, of York Street, Church, has died at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, aged 84.

Mr Stokes was a shopfitter for 29 years.

During the war he was in the Navy in the Far East.

He was a member of Accrington Pipe Band where he was a piper for 15 years.

He was a keen gardener and had an allotment where he grew vegetables and flowers.

Mr Sydney leaves wife Nellie, sons Trevor and Martin, daughter-in-law Val and grandchildren.

His funeral was on Thursday when the Rev Garo Kilagi conducted a service and cremation at Accrington.

Funeral director: Kirby and Hughes, Accrington.