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(Groenhart), after David’s sister, Janet,
passed away when he was young. They
had 7 grandchildren.
Unfortunately, David spent his 昀椀nal few
years following the pandemic with
declining health, mainly due to dementia.
He passed away at Fornham House Care
Home, near Bury St Edmunds, aged 83.
Contributed by Ed Groenhart
COLIN HUGH RIGBY (R43-45) passed
away on 27 March 2021 after a short
period of ill health. The news was passed
next half century. When he came back
on to us by his daughter.
to the farm, he worked with his father,
George.
Shortly after marrying Jeannie, David and
his young family moved into a house in
Ixworth which David had been renovating
and restoring. It is the oldest house in
Ixworth, and would remain their home
for over 50 years. Apart from boarding
schools, Shuttleworth College, and more
recently Fornham House Care Home,
David lived his entire life in Ixworth.
Outside work on the farm, David invested
himself in various aspects of local village
and farming life, apart from YFC, he was
churchwarden and on the council of the
Colin was born in Norwich in 1929 and
village church for many years, a parish
had a relatively normal childhood with
councillor, and one time, Chair. There was
his family until his early teenage years
also the National Farmers’ Union and local
when he lost his dad to meningitis. As he
Conservative Association of which he was
put it himself, he graduated early as a
an active member.
teenager and was sent to Framlingham
to ‘put him through the mill’. It worked,
David and his wife Jeannie had two
as he left with six credits. He tried some
children, James and Christopher,
chemistry, mixing elements and bomb
and fostered their nephew, Edward
debris to make 昀椀reworks, which didn’t
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