North Wingfield D. Fellowes M.B.E.

Mr D. Fellowes

MBE

North Wingfield Mr David Stuart Ballingall Fellowes MBE, of Claydon Lodge care home, Crich Place, North Wingfield, Chesterfield, has died at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, aged 74.
Born at Nottingham, he returned to North Wingfield in 2002, he lived and worked in Chesterfield before moving to Cambridge, Scunthorpe and later Retford. He joined the RAF after leaving Nottingham Grammar School. He returned to Chesterfield as deputy
superintendant registrar for births, deaths and marriages, he then left
registration to combine his love of
weather and the outdoors as a
hydrometric inspector for Seven Trent Water Authority, latterly
returning to registration as
superintendant at Gainsborough, Scunthorpe and Retford. He retired in 1988 to manage a confection and
tobacconists in Retford with his late wife Sybil, until he suffered bad health.
Mr Fellowes was a keen walker and mountaineer, railway enthusiast and meteorologist. Mr Fellowes was a regular weather watch columnist with the Derbyshire Times and Retford Times and was awarded the MBE for voluntary
services to the MET office in 1996. He was a freemason, organist, choirmaster and a member of Probus, Clay Cross. He loved the hills, enjoyed amateur dramatics and was an avid reader and artist. He enjoyed playing golf and cricket.
The widower of Sybil, he leaves daughter Kathryn, step-daughter Sally, son-in-law Andrew and grandchildren Emily, Joshua and Olivia.
The funeral has taken place.
Donations to Cancer Research UK in lieu of flowers.
Funeral directors: Ken Montague, 42 Thanet Street, Clay Cross, Chesterfield (tel.01246 860222).