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December 2020 December 2020
A moment to say ‘Thank You’
OBITUARIES
The pandemic has brought out the best response across our small rural
community. I have been made aware of how much the contributions of both
Ivor Mullins groups and individuals has meant to so many. On behalf of the Parish Council I
would like to thank everyone who has helped in any way they could throughout
It is sad that COVID-19 has coincided with Dads departing. I am sure we the last 9 months. Let’s hope for a better year ahead.
would have had a full house if this were not the case as Ivor seemed to be a

very popular man.
Next Meeting
Can I ask you to take 10 seconds of your time to think of a word that you
think best describes Ivor? I asked my wife Sally her word which was “loud” The next meeting of the Parish Council will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 9th
and no one can disagree with that. You always knew when Ivor was in the December. Please check the Parish Council section of the Community Website
room. nearer the time for the agenda and information about how to join the meeting
which will be held remotely. Members of the public wishing to raise issues or make
I am quite sure that many of the words you have considered have been representation in respect of any agenda item will have an opportunity to do so at
included in the wonderful sympathy letters we have received and will be the meeting. Alternatively, anyone who wishes to may contact the Parish Clerk in
expressed throughout the day.
advance of the meeting. Ideally correspondence should be received at least a
Ivor, or if you really wanted to wind him up you call him Jasper was an week in advance as it will not be possible to add items to the agenda once it has
extremely proud and driven man he was proud of his working achievements, been set.
climbing the financial ladder through grit and determination an ethos he Sue Jones, Chairman
never forgot. He was fiercely independent, and he initially found it extremely
hard to leave this behind and to accept the challenges upon entering Mile
Oak Rest Home. Dad was a gregarious and outward going person who
loved a joke with all.
Ivor was born in 1930 to Reg and Alice at Dewlish, not five miles up the road
from where we are today, where Reg was head gardener. This is where Dad
and his sister got their names from, as Jasper and Genris were Lord and Lady
of the manor house. They subsequently moved when Reg took up a similar
position at Winterbourne Anderson Manor,
We are lucky to be celebration his 90 years for when he was just seven he
was desperately ill with TB and he always said it set him back with his
schooling and consequently, in his opinion, a grammar school education.
The wartime was a good time for the family with the manor being taken over
by the US Army. Food and services were plentiful. Dad always said it was
harder for the family directly after the war as this was
when the effects of rationing really hit home.
He did his National Service in the early 1950’s and
saw active service in the payroll corp. So, the only
thing he fired in anger was a pen.

After his national service he worked for Express
Dairies in the offices at Milbourne St Andrew, and
latterly in his career, on the road as an internal

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