Once a week we share tributes from family and friends for lost loved ones who have died across Nottinghamshire. Each notice will remain online forever, providing a place for people to look back on and remember.
Announcing the death of a loved one in local news media is a long-standing tradition, with every notice published to our newspaper and news site also appearing on funeral-notices.co.uk – the UK’s No 1 site for death notices. To read the latest announcements and add tributes to those from our area who have died, click here.
Here are the notices published in the Nottingham Post – from Saturday, December 7, until Friday, December 13, 2024. Our thoughts are with friends and family affected.
Mary Godfrey
of Ricket Lane, Blidworth, sadly passed away at home on 28th November 2024 aged 77. Mary was a beloved Wife of Clifford, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and friend, and will be missed by all who knew her.
Funeral service to take place at St Mary’s Church, Blidworth on Monday 30th December 2024 at 10am, followed by committal at Mansfield Crematorium. Mourners are welcome to bring flowers, or donations in lieu of flowers will benefit Jerry Green Dog Rescue.
Funeral enquiries to: A.W. Lymn, The Family Funeral Service Hutchinson House 296 Southwell Road East Rainworth Nottinghamshire NG21 0EB 01623 797647 rainworth@lymn.co.uk
John Mason
Former parish councillor of Awsworth, passed away at Kings Mill Hospital on Friday 22nd November, aged 79. A funeral service will take place at Beeston Cemetery on Monday 6th January 2025 at 1pm.
Donations in lieu of flowers will benefit Alzheimer’s Society. All enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Ltd. 01773 811371.
Martin John Squires
Sadly passed away on 2nd December aged 60. The funeral service will be held at Gedling crematorium on Friday 3rd January at 2pm.
All are welcome to join the family after the funeral service at Mapperley Golf Club, Plains Road, Mapperley, Nottingham, NG3 5LD. Donations can be made in loving memory of Martin to Maggie’s Cancer Centre Baguley Brothers Funeral Directors 500 Mansfield Road Sherwood Nottingham NG5 2FB Tel. 0115 9605197
Stephen (Steve) Young
A Nottingham City Councillor for the Clifton South ward and IT manager with British Rail. Stephen Young, 68, known to his friends and family as Steve, moved to St Anns in 1979 and later Hyson Green, before moving to Lenton where he had lived for 40 years.
Born in Stanley, County Durham, a colliery town, after school he spent a gap year working at Consett Ironworks and then went to Leicester University where he gained a degree in Mathematics. Mr Young worked as a British Rail IT manager in Nottingham from 1979 until he retired in 2010.
There he met his partner, Anne, and they had been together for 40 years. Mr Young’s interests were wide and varied. He was politically active, carrying out several roles and campaigning activities in his local constituency Labour Party over many years.
He was a Nottingham City Councillor for Clifton South ward from 2015 to 2019. In addition to his council duties, he was a board member of Nottingham City Homes, and vice-chair of the Clifton Advice Centre’s management committee. He was passionate about the need to develop the local economy and opportunities for local people in Clifton and any measures to ease the cost of living, particularly the need for council housing, affordable rents and sustainable heating. He campaigned for the tram line from Nottingham to Clifton, and the development of the Clifton Triangle, now the site of Lidl and B&M.
When he retired as a councillor in 2019, he remained as a volunteer member of Clifton Advice Centre’s management committee until the present day. He enjoyed going to classical concerts and the theatre.
He played the piano and went walking daily. He enjoyed travel having visited over 40 countries, including a train trip from Thailand to Singapore, a trip to Borneo, Central America, North America, the Galapagos Islands, Madagascar, India, Nepal and China, safaris in Kenya and Tanzania, and several holidays working on a tallship in the South Pacific.
And of course, coming from the North East, he supported Newcastle United. He died unexpectedly after a short illness on Friday 15 November in the Queen’s Medical Centre.
He is survived by his partner Anne and his older brother Tony. Funeral will be held at Wilford Hill Crematorium on Monday 30th of December 2024 at 3:30pm.