- just ~ retired from

;vice of the" old Lon—
don, Chatham and

. _the age of nineteen
"and retued on pen-

‘ Company (both he-

 

VETERAN CHURCH W0EKEE?s
E RETIREMENT.

 

MIL H.» RUSS, "OF BEKESBOURNE-.

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Mr.‘ Henry Bass, of
Bekesbourne, near I
Canterbury, who has

various church - of~
fic.es,__ has had almost
a hfe-time connee-

Ch
genham, Wiltshire,
e entered the ser-

Dover Railway at

sion at seventy-one,
having served the

fore and a....er amal-
gamation) at Bakes-
bourne for fifty-one
years—fo1‘ty-five as. ~
ganger. Mr. Russ
has also prqved him-
self». _f_a.ithfu1 la.y_-
mar 11 regard to
ari.'__ church work,

aving served under
four vrcars — the

Rev._A. R. Pribch-
3rd,, the Rev. R.
B. Pyper and the Rev. J. C, Eyre Kidson acini as altar server‘ and captained the
(the present Vicar). Mr. Russ joined the local band of ringers. It is hard to sever
surphced choir when it was first formed the associ_atiens of a lifetime and Mr.
fart .five years ago; he has been church R\iss’s ,res1gnat1o_n has been the cause _1o1‘

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war en >£or the past sixfgeen years; ‘has general regret.

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