John Binding (1941-2013)

  • Name:

  • John Binding1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • 1941

  • Exmoor, Devon2 3

  • Occupation:

  • frm 1957 to 2012 (age 15-71)

  • upholsterer

  •  

  • It is assumed that he was apprenticed at the age of 16 and probably, except for a break for National Service, worked as an upholsterer sometime for himself and sometimes for other people for most of his life. It is known that the quality of his work was very high and his services were much in demand. However, he was not a businessman and he did not have much success in running his own business. Towards the end of his life when he began to suffer from cancer he only worked occasionally.

  • Guest:

  • 22 Dec 1990 (age 48-49)

  • Guest at marriage of Duncan Francis Capps and Alison Mary Ward

  • Guest:

  • 2 Oct 1999 (age 57-58)

  • Guest at marriage of Ian A. Spence and Alison Mary Ward

  • Guest:

  • 14 Dec 2002 (age 60-61)

  • Guest at marriage of Richard Mark William Ward and Amanda Jane Pears

  • Death:

  • 1 Nov 2013 (age 71-72)

  • Dorothy House Hospice4

  •  

  • Cause: cancer

    Address: Winsley, Bradford-on-Avon, Somerset

    In the evening of 1 Nov 2013 Richard (Ward) phoned me (Jack Ward) to say that John (Binding) had died in Dorothy House Hospice of lung cancer with a secondary brain cancer. A few years before John has suffered from jaw cancer but this had been cured and I thought that after that episode he had given up smoking a pipe. However, Richard told me that he continued to smoke both a pipe and cigarettes. I knew from previous telephone calls that John was not well and had gone into hospital about 4 or 5 weeks before his death with a brain tumour which was affecting the right side of his body. Apparently he could no longer walk. As far as I know he did not receive any treatment but was discharged home to the lower ground floor flat where he and Joan (his wife and Jack's first wife) lived. Here Joan put him to bed on the sofa in their front room. He got steadily worse and about a week before his death he went back into hospital. Apparently he was desperate for a cigarette but was not allowed to smoke in hospital and the staff were too busy to take him outside in a wheelchair. The day before his death he was discharged to Dorothy House Hospice where he was allowed outside in a wheelchair to smoke. At this stage there was nothing that could be done for him so why not let him enjoy a cigarette? Apparently the brain tumour meant that he felt little if any pain.

    In a subsequent telephope call made a few days later to tell me when the funeral would take place Richard said that in the Chapel of Rest his wife Joan had put a cigarette between his fingers!

Marriage

Sources

1.

J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Joan married John Binding about 1989. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street

Bampton

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.

2.

General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Frederick W. J. Binding, Event Type: Birth, Name Of Person: Frederick W. J. Binding, Registration District: Exmoor, Volume: 5c, Page: 594, (FindMyPast website). Custom Id: Births 1941 Q3 Exmoor Vol 5c, Page 594; Cit. Date: Q3 1941. General Register Office. Call Number: Births.

3.

J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Joan married John Binding about 1989. It was known that he was younger than her. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street

Bampton

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.

4.

Richard Ward, Telephone Call from Richard Ward to his father Jack Ward, Recipient: Jack Ward, (1 Nov 2013). Richard phone to say that John had died on that morning (1 Nov 2013) of cancer in Dorethy House Hospice near Bath.