Long-time resident dies

Booker Bay resident Sonny Makepeace died on August 26 last year, aged 88.

Mr Makepeace was born in 1916 and lived at Booker Bay for 74 years.

During his life, Mr Makepeace spent 40 years working for Gosford Council.

Mr Makepeace had a large family who all lived on the Central Coast except for a son who lives in Canberra.

He had 12 children, with eight of them still alive today.

Ann Makepeace, his wife, passed away September 1993.

Mr Makepeace's children include Barbara, Jim, Keith, Colin, Donald, Lindsay, Debbie and Jon.

Letter, January 19 Barbara Falconer