LEONARD Bruce, who has died at the age of 77, is remembered as an active member of the Royal Naval Association.
He joined after his own naval service began on the Z-Class destroyer HMS Myngs towards the end of the Second World War.
He was also involved - mainly as secretary - with the football club at the Little John at Bradley, a pub and club with which he had a very long association.
In the early 1960s he began working for Union Publishing advertising contractors, of Queen Street, Huddersfield.
He eventually became a director of the company, where he remained until his retirement at the age of 62.
Mr Bruce was a grandson of Ezra Bruce, of Bruce and Nephew, Clive Mills, Mirfield, who were blanket makers until the late 1930s.
He died at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on February 17 and was buried alongside his grandfather and his father, also named Leonard, in the family grave at Edgerton Cemetery.
He leaves a wife, Muriel. His eldest son, Nigel, died in 1981, but Mr Bruce leaves behind two children, Steven and Beverley, and three stepchildren, Michael, Michelle and Mark. He had also recently become a great-grandfather.
His sister, Pauline, lives in Kirkheaton.
