Michael Alexander

3 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander

Bill Berry, a retired Dundee University geography lecturer who lived in the same Broughty Ferry house for 60 years, is being remembered as an inspirational family man and academic who led a “life well lived”. The 84-year-old grandfather, who died suddenly but peacefully on March 9, moved to Dundee with his wife Christine in 1964 when the then Queen’s College was in the process of gaining independence from St Andrews University.

4 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander

Andrew Clark, a lifelong Anstruther resident and the beloved proprietor of Clark’s Garage in the town for nearly five decades, has passed away at the age of 81. The former Merchant seaman, who played golf at Anstruther and Crail, died peacefully on February 19 at the Cowdray Club Nursing Home in Aberdeen. Andrew’s daughter Kim Cruttenden told The Courier her dad was a great role model whose work ethic was “second to none”.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander

Leslie Sword, a well-known Perth character and former Welsh mayor, who died when a fire took hold of his flat in Perth, will be remembered as the “life and soul of the party”, his family say. The 62-year old former aircraft engineer, who enjoyed a “great” final night in the pub after watching his beloved St Johnstone play Dundee at Dens Park, was found dead in his home on St Catherine’s Road after firefighters were called to a blaze in the early hours of March 2.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander

When Leonie Bell took up her “dream job” as V&A Dundee director in 2020, it marked the culmination of a personal and professional journey that had come full circle. Born in Dundee, raised in Newport-on-Tay, and spending years honing her craft in Glasgow, her return to Dundee, and Broughty Ferry where she now lives, was both a homecoming and an opportunity to influence the future of a city she has always believed in.

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander

Alex Boland, a former Dundee-based DC Thomson & Co Ltd employee with a love for music, theatre, holidays and the Wild West, has died peacefully aged 91. Alex, who worked on the Evening Telegraph and other DC Thomson titles including Commando, spent a lifetime with the Dundee publishing company after doing his National Service in the Far East. Born in Kirriemuir on March 3 1933, his parents were William Boland, a master baker, and Barbara Boland (nee Bryce).