Anthony Claude was known as Tony. From The Liverpool Echo of 28 April 1983: CHESTER and District Chamber of Trade is backing the city's new marketing bureau...and a cheque was handed over to the bureau's chairman, Mr. Richard Edwards, by the Chamber's president, Mr. Anthony Claude Crimes." From The London Gazette of 21 August 1995: Bankruptcy Orders: CRIMES, Anthony Claude, unemployed, of 30 Love Lane, Denbigh, Clywd, lately carrying on business as Claude Crimes, 14A Upper Northgate Street, Chester, Formerly a Retailer of Prams and Toys... Date of Bankruptcy Order: 10th August 1995...." Tony's obituary from The Daily Post of 24 December 2016 reads: "CRIMES TONY Passed away suddenly, aged 64 years of The Old Prison, Love Lane, Denbigh. Deeply missed by his wife E▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮, girls A▮▮▮▮, S▮▮▮ and W▮▮▮▮, sisters J▮▮▮ and P▮▮▮▮▮▮, brother A▮▮▮, grandchildren Lewis, Owen, Erin and Tomos. Tony bequeathed his body to medical science. A memorial service will be held at Eirianfa, Denbigh on Saturday January 21st 2017 at 2.00pm. Donations in memory of Tony will be gratefully received towards the Medical Science Department at Keele University, Denbigh First Responders and the British Heart Foundation." From The Daily Post of 4 February 2017: "CRIMES TONY We believe that there were about 400 people at Tony's memorial service on Saturday 21st January, it was an amazing turnout. The outpourings of respect, admiration, gratitude, friendship and love for Tony are a massive tribute to an amazingly unique (thanks Arthur) man. As a family, and friends, we are at a loss as to how we must continue without him. Our special thanks to Deiniol Jones for the way the memorial seamlessly unfolded. It was impossible to hug and talk to everyone or even catch a glimpse of others as we would have wished so that the many names Tony talked of would eventually had faces to go with them. Huge thanks to everyone who sent the hundreds of cards, messages, flowers and comforting words to us. With love from Tony's family." |