Iconic Coronation Street actress Eileen Derbyshire is mourning the death of her husband of 56 years, Thomas W Holt. Her husband had Alzheimer’s in the lead up to his death and passed away at the weekend with his son by his bedside.
His son Oliver is a Mail on Sunday journalist and wrote some of his fond memories of his father, sharing how football was an important part of their lives together.
He shared: ‘So, County and Stockport Viaduct, a landmark of which he was inordinately proud, were two of the last things I mentioned to him before he died last weekend. ‘He was unconscious by the time I arrived but, after I had been sitting at his bedside for a while, I told him I’d been to watch the home game against Sutton United 10 days earlier. ‘I
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