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James Rodway (Jim) was born in 1933. Jim was always interested in the motor industry. He did an apprenticeship with Rootes in Ladbroke Grove, Piccadilly in the 1950s.
Jim married in 1962 and worked for the Marshalls Motor Group in Jesus Lane, Cambridge. He then went on to have two children and moved to the Devon area.
Following on from that, he joined the South African Barlow Handling Group (Barlow Rand) and moved to South Africa in 1974 to 1977.
Once back from South Africa he returned to Marshalls, this this time in Peterborough where he remained as Managing Director until 1980.
Jim was a very keen, exceptionally good golfer. He played in the Halford Hewitt in the 1970s and was a member of various golf clubs over the years, and in particular the West Sussex Golf Club.
Jim’s marriage broke up in 1980 but he went on and met a new partner in 1988 and returned to live in Sussex in the 1990s.
Sadly in 2017 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s which was coped with at home until 2020 when he had to go into the nursing care home system. He had a difficult last three year – added to the distress of memory problems, he had exceptional hearing difficulties all his life and rather withdrew from socialising in his latter decades.
He passed away on 14, July 2023 and is now at peace. He always talked fondly of his Lancing days.
Catharine Duce (Daughter)