Our prayerful sympathy with Mrs Tutton and the family. It was characteristic of Charlie Tutton that he was concerned with people’s housing and other personal problems right up to a day or two before his death. As a signalman for 40 years, he did this very responsible work in the best traditions of the railways as a public service, and devoted his leisure and not inconsiderable talents to the recreational, cultural and artistic welfare of his fellow-workers. After retirement, he gave himself unsparingly in voluntary work for the local community. The activities in which he took part are too numerous to list here, but we shall remember him in Badsey especially for his work on the Parish Council, the RDC, the Managers of Badsey School and the Governors of Blackminster Secondary School. He was very well-informed in the wider aspects of local government and attended many national conferences as a delegate. It is an occupation disease among some people prominent in serving the community to neglect their own homes. But Charlie Tutton was essentially a family man: a devoted husband, father, neighbour and friend. He was a man of deep Christian conviction, who lived and died in faith, “an honourable man, a counsellor, a good man and a just, who also waited for the kingdom of God”.
