Nearly 200 family and friends filled Oldfield Park Baptist Church in Bath on Wednesday for a thanksgiving service following the death of former Melksham man Mr David Goodband, who died at Frenchay Hospital on October 31 after being taken ill at home.
Born in Oxford in 1949, he grew up in Woodrow, Melksham Forest, with his sister Margaret, where their parents ran a smallholding.
He attended Lowbourne Schools and Chippenham Grammar School before taking up a career with Lloyds Bank, and was a regular member of Melksham Forest Methodist Church.
He met his wife Heather at work in Bath, and they married in 1977 and settled in Winsley, moving to Bath in 1980. The following year David was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and retired in the early 1990s.
In his 20s, David was a champion rifle-shooter for Lloyds Bank and Wiltshire County until he had to give up due to his illness. He served in several capacities at his church, for the Bath and District Branch of the MS Society as welfare officer and on several committees in Bath for organisations working for disabled people in the city.
Foremost a family man and friend, he leaves a wife, daughter, son, daughter-in-law, son-in-law and four grandchildren.
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