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SELL YOUR HOME FAST J.D. Upholstery Old school gentleman passes away
OR SIMPLY SELL & RENT BACK ! Ted McKenzie, one of the nicest men you could ever meet, died at the
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3 Sell your Home & Rent it back re-upholstery lor, he moved to Fresh- speed and distance on
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7 Rescue a broken chain or debt / after a life roaming the across the Sahara desert.
repossession Free estimates world. On retirement in 1961
We are local Property In 2006 The Link he travelled the world,
Traders Call Joe Lewinski learnt more of Ted’s and sailed extensively
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spoke enthusiastically about living Americas. He later toured Britain
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ON 07745 91 91 98 for competitive prices carried a mobile phone and at the he was seventy.
age of 91 received an award from “Ted was such a gentle, polite and
Swindon College for mastering private man,” said Ken Vyvash, his
computers and the internet. He immediate neighbour for twenty
Does your existing agent have a was in touch with friends around five years. “We didn’t know a lot
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estate agency offering over 40 years of combined of the world. He was brought up in “Sadly we didn’t find out that
property experience in Wootton Bassett, Purton, Edwardian England and followed he’d gone until we heard noises next
Lyneham, Swindon and surrounding villages.
his famous journalist father into door to find his house was being
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He had learnt to fly in the 1930s was still driving his car until a few
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• Advertising through the web & local publications was sent to train pilots in Southern Ted would have enjoyed receiv-
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01793 855222 developed a flying technique still in • The 2006 Link story can be found
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