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Kingsnympton, never static, ever changing but always deeply rooted
in the past, that dad loved so much, and hankered to get back to
throughout his working life.
Many of you here will have known Dad for many years - but for those
of you who only got to know him in later life when he returned to the
village, I9d like to give you just a small insight into the funny,
gregarious, big hearted and at times hugely sentimental human
being that was our father. Born in Exeter in 1947 to parents Leonora
Mary Sanders, Ward Sister, of Huxford, Kingsnympton, and Royal and
Merchant Navy Chief Petty Ofocer, John William (or 8Jack9) Sanders,
Roland was the second of three children, brought up in and between
Exmouth and Kingsnympton in the immediate post-war era.
Encouraged to make the most of his obvious intellect, Roland
followed his elder brother Bryant to King Alfred9s Teacher Training
College in Winchester, where he
specialised in Mathematics and
Science. It was here that he met
Anthea Jane Standcumbe, a Cornish
publican9s daughter and trainee
primary school teacher with whom
he would spend the next 54 year 3
their journey starting in this very
church on the 7th August 1971 and
ending on the 8th July 2025 at the
Creedy Ward of the Royal Devon &
Exeter Hospital.
Whilst Dad9s unexpected diagnosis with the extremely rare and
incurable disease, Amyloidosis, in early 2013, deprived him of the
swansong he had always envisaged - spuddling around the laneways
and hostelries of Devon with old mates like Bobby and Brownie in a
sort of mirth-olled pastiche of
