| Deepika Hinton December 2022 |
We are very sorry to let you know that Deepika Hinton passed away in the early hours of Christmas Day. Our thoughts and prayers are with her daughters, Roopa and Nicola and their families. Deepika had been a loyal member of the club for 20 years, and she will be missed by her bridge partners and friends at the club. Please click here for the funeral arrangements on 30th January.
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| Tony Fincham December 2022 |
A memorial gathering took place on 24th February 2023, to celebrate the life of former member, Tony Fincham, who passed away on 4th December. We send our condolences to his daughters, Gemma and Tessa.
A copy of the memorial booklet is available here.
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| Ivor Perera November 2022 |
It is with great sadness to inform you that Ivor Perera passed away on Sunday 14th November of cancer. Ivor was was a loyal and long time member on WBC and would travel from Harrow to Wimbledon to play twice a week.
Members will remember Ivor to being extremely kind, personable and for thoroughly enjoying his bridge games.
The funeral will be taking place on Friday 2nd December. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family.
Zabena Hasnudeen
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| Anne Sexton June 2022 |
We are sad to report that Anne Sexton, a former member of WBC and a close friend of Billie Stephens, passed away very recently following a brain tumour. Her husband Clair was also a member of Wimbledon Bridge Club and apart from his wife was a great friend and bridge partner of John Samuels for many years. Clair died in 2021.
Some of our long time members will remember them both. Clair was also a bridge teacher and for some years was responsible for arranging bridge lecturers for the Fred Olsen Cruise Line.
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| Silvana Cabello 16th March 2022 |
LA BELLA SILVANA
If there was ever a person that you wanted to be a member of your club it was Silvana.
Silvana Cabello only brought joy and laughter. I don’t think there was a negative bone in her body. A fine bridge player, who was on the leader board a good number of times was someone never short of partners and polite and gracious to the opposition.
Her loyalty and support of the club was legendry. She ran the bring and buy stall at our yearly charity bridge event for over 20 years raising thousands of pounds for St Raphael’s and others charities.
She sold raffle tickets for said causes and woe betide anyone who tried to slip through.
In her other life she was an “ambassador” for Oxfam having served at the Wimbledon village branch for over 40 years. She ran the accessories like a born market trader which of course she was.
She came to this country as a nurse having been brought up in Ravenna where with her beautiful singing voice she became their radio.
She continued singing to the end and all the angels will be singing for her now in return.
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| Bill Medd January 2022 |
 Bill Medd died peacefully at home on Sunday 16th January 2022 aged 97 years. Many club members will have memories of Bill from the time he joined WBC in the early 1990s.
I have reason to hold particularly fond memories of Bill. We each joined the club within a day or so of each other and, neither having a partner, John Gullick paired us together. Bill, then in his mid 60's, and a recently retired Cardiologist, informed me he hadn't played bridge since his days as a medical student. He became a very keen bridge student, always showering his teacher, Martha Jaynes, with presents, generally from his garden. He was both a kind and generous man.
After a couple of years at the club Bill wished to thank his many partners, and opponents, for the pleasure they had brought him. He invited about thirty members to his home for supper. We also had the opportunity of viewing Bill's splendid garden which he had developed over some thirty years.
If you wish to watch the funeral please follow the link https://watch.obitus.com
Michael Lunn
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