the end of a era

[joffmiester]

sadly ROY JEFFREYS passed away this morning after a short illness
ROY who seams to have been around for ever and a day certainly my hole life and respected throughout at the highest level ROY in his early days was a very good angler fishing along side the likes of billy lane and a young Ivan
but what ROY is best known for is commitment to young anglers he took LEICESTER JUNIORS to the top of the tree he took ENGLAND JUNIORS to international stardom anglers like Steve hemingray came through the ROY JEFFREYS school of angling the timeless work that Roy put in behind the scenes booking matches and always the meetings at the black bird pub often roy would go out of his way to pick you up even if it was across town and of course LEICESTER SENSAS[leicester AS] wouldn't of been half the team it is today and a lot of other teams up and down the country as well as juniors passed through the ROY JEFFREYS school of angling Roy right upto this year has put a team in our winter league without ever wetting a line himself his team was always called LEICESTER JUNIORS even thou the average age was 50 years old another passion of Roys was writing the angling column in the local paper the LEICESTER MURCURY again endless phone calls to make sure the results from every local match had been printed he always reguarded this as special he once said to me "everyone likes to see there name in the paper"and yes we do still to this day every friday its the first page we turn to and read
Roy will be sadly missed and my thoughts are with his family R.I.P Roy

[Simple]

RIP

[CHOPWORM HERO]

I am really sad to hear this news, Roy gave so much to the sport especially helping the juniors in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
I will miss him, top bloke.

[two shakes]

Sad news,Roy will be sadly missed.Condolences to his family.RIP Roy

[mburgess]

:'(R.I.P

[Woodhouse]

A bad day for fishing.


Roy is one of the reasons why England come home from World champs every year with medals


RIP Roy

[joffmiester]

ROY JEFFREYS FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE NEW YEARS EVE 10.30AM GILROSE

[Woodhouse]

Joff

what/where is Gilrose

[joffmiester]

its the main cemetery in leicester i can find out for you the address

[joffmiester]

Roy Jeffery, the Leicester Mercury’s angling correspondent, has died at the age of 79.
A lifelong angling enthusiast, Roy made an enormous contribution to the sport through his work with the junior section of Leicester Angling Society.
Roy founded the group in 1968 and, with the help of coaches Trevor Tomlin and John Essex, provided guidance for hundreds of budding anglers.
The Leicester Juniors soon became a force to be reckoned with in competitions and, with Roy as team manager, they won the national championship in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985 and 1995.
They also finished runners-up twice and were third three times.
Leicester’s Chris Chesters also won an individual national championship.
Many anglers who came under Roy’s guidance went on to fish for top teams.
They include Steve Hemmingray, Mick West, Chris Peberdy, Stu Killen and Bradley Titmas.
Roy was also a noted administrator and in recent years he has helped with the running of the Soar Valley Winter League.
He leaves a wife, three sons and a daughter.

[fin]

Roy Jeffery, the Leicester Mercury’s angling correspondent, has died at the age of 79.
A lifelong angling enthusiast, Roy made an enormous contribution to the sport through his work with the junior section of Leicester Angling Society.
Roy founded the group in 1968 and, with the help of coaches Trevor Tomlin and John Essex, provided guidance for hundreds of budding anglers.
The Leicester Juniors soon became a force to be reckoned with in competitions and, with Roy as team manager, they won the national championship in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985 and 1995.
They also finished runners-up twice and were third three times.
Leicester’s  Chris Chesters also won  an individual national championship.
Many  anglers who came under Roy’s guidance went on to fish for top teams.
They include Steve Hemmingray, Mick West, Chris Peberdy, Stu Killen and Bradley Titmas.
Roy was also a noted administrator and in recent years he has helped with the running of the Soar Valley Winter League.
He leaves a wife, three sons and a daughter.
Just gave chris chesters a text to let him know and he rang me back and to say he's devastated is an understatement , he said he spent 5 years of his youth with him and Roy used to drive him about allover . RIP