Leaves from the Cherry Tree

On 22 January 2011, the Cherry Trees Residents’ Association lost its long-time chairman, and hundreds of its members also lost a dear and close friend, when Willoughby Wynne died at Cromwell Hospital of a cancer that very few were aware of.
He was only 76.

Willoughby was the association’s chairman for more than 20 years until the AGM on 15 November 2010, when he very surprisingly announced that he was stepping down and handing over to deputy chairman Charles Penney. At a committee meeting only a week earlier he had said that he wanted to remain chairman a little bit longer, but it is possible that a visit to the doctor in between made him change his mind.

Those attending his funeral in the Carmelite Church on 1 February were left in no doubt about the extent of his circle of friends. The church seats over 600, but at least an additional hundred had to stand at the back during the service.

We will all miss him.