19th October 2011

LYME REGIS: Town mourns top skittler

OBITUARY by Philip Evans

A RESPECTED Lyme Regis resident who played skittles for more than 50 years died suddenly on Monday morning.

Peter Flux, aged 76, of 9 Summerhill Road, suffered a fatal heart attack.

He is survived by his wife Violet, two children, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Mr Flux was born and bred in Lyme Regis and did his National Service in the Army where he was a member of a fitness display team.

As a young man he was a keen fitness fanatic and in the early 1960s attempted to swim from Lyme to West Bay with a friend Rodney Jones.

Mr Flux was a plumber by trade and described by a colleague as “nobody better working with lead”. He was also a keen motorcyclist and country and western music fan.

But one of his lifelong interests was skittles, playing for a number of teams, including the Comets and Alleytwits, in the Lyme Regis Skittles League, winning many trophies down the years. In fact, he was still skittling up and until the Friday before his death.

The funeral service is expected to take place at the Baptist Church on Monday, October 21st.

LYME REGIS: Town mourns top skittler

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