Our Oldest Resident has passed away, age 98

Eric Carter, the oldest person in Packington, has died, aged 98. Eric was a journalist all his working life. Born in December 1920, he started as a reporter on his home town paper, the Bideford Gazette, before being called up during the Second World War, serving in India and Burma. Upon demobilisation, he picked up …

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