DAVID TIRMIZEY
We say goodbye to a greatly respected and long-standing member of our Club and a fine servant of Rotary.
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March 2010 after a long and cruel illness. He was 71. He joined the then Hornchurch Club in 1975, on the recommendation of Frank Eiles, his senior partner in their accountancy firm based at that time in Cranham.
settling in to the ethos of Rotary, David established himself as a very active and popular Club member. He had a brief spell as Assistant Secretary, a post in which he did not feel totally at ease, but had no difficulty whatever in carrying out the duties of Auditor. Kind but firm in this capacity, David insisted on and indeed maintained the highest standards of clarity and accuracy in the Club’s accounting procedures.
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abiding and passionate interests lay. He could turn his hand to pretty well every game in the book, indoor and outdoor, and willingly placed his skills and interests at the service of the Club. For many years he acted as joint Sports Secretary with Harry Wilson, organising the rich variety of sporting activities which Rotarians enjoyed. Your present writer vividly remembers the final of the Club’s tennis tournament back in the mid- eighties, when David and Eddie Truman battled it out
t was, however, in the realm of sport that David’s
A very elegant David acting as a waiter at the annual Old Folks’ Party.
under a blazing sun on Harry Wilson’s grass court at South Ockendon. In the end it mattered nought which of them was technically the winner. I think both had finally to be carried off in total exhaustion. It must be remembered
that David achieved his great skills at sport in spite of his serious condition of diabetes. This was not a problem which he allowed to trouble him: he rarely mentioned it apart from occasions when his regular hospital checkups interfered with his Rotary
avid died in the early hours of Monday 16th
activities. On the other hand, those of us who remember David from the time when he was an active sportsman were all the more distressed for him as his condition steadily and inexorably deteriorated over the years until he reached the terrible suffering of his final illness.
but the treat when one got to the top was well worth the effort. There was a very large expanse of land spread over one of the very few hills in Essex, together with stables and a very large outbuilding which David kitted out as a games room.
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so hosting meetings such as Club Service Committee. It was also a time during which he built up a small pack of extremely large Rottweilers.
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t was about this time that David was moving to- wards the Presidency, and
David during his middle years was horse riding. Happily for David, this interest was fully shared by his wife Jean and daughters Debbie and Jeannette. Indeed, it was Jean and the girls who first got the bug and passed it on to David. As David’s accountancy practice prospered and his equestrian expertise grew, Jean persuaded him to buy a magnifi- cent property in the Langdon Hills. This was a truly splendid home, accessed by a narrow, winding lane in which the main dread was meeting a vehicle coming the other way,
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ne absorbing interest which took possession of
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