Tribute after death of "gentleman" ex-Advertiser proof reader Gordon Taylor

Gordon Taylor, who worked at the paper for 34 years, also loved reading newspapers away from the job, as well as classical music and bowls.

Born in Rawmarsh in 1928, he attended Mexborough Grammar School and completed national service before joining the Advertiser in 1956.

MrTaylor married Dorothy Jordan in 1951 and they went on to have a daughter, Wendy, two grand-children, Jess and Jack, and a great-grandaughter, Georgia.

Widowed in 1975, Mr Taylor married Margaret Burrows in 1977, gaining step-children Tim, Ruth and Anna.

He moved to Nottingham in 1977 then, in 1979, to Sheffield, where lived until he died at the Northern General Hospital on November 11 after a short illness.

A keen member of Clifton Methodist Church in Rotherham and then Wisewood Methodist Church, in Sheffield, Mr Taylor, who retired in 1990, also played bowls at Sheffield’s Middlewood Bowls Club.

His daughter Wendy said: “Dad loved reading. and always read a broadsheet every day.

“He loved music, especially classical music, collected literally thousands of CDs and loved concerts at Sheffield City Hall.

“He was calm, quiet and a real gentleman, with a great sense of humour.”

Mr Taylor’s funeral will be held on Friday at 1pm at Wisewood Methodist Church, Sheffield.