Richard Walker 1964 - 2021

Richard died very suddenly and completely unexpectedly at home on the evening of Saturday 27 February 2021. His wife Emma was with him.

Richard was born in Epsom and joined Glyn School in 1975 where he was Head Boy in 1981 to 1982 before going to Aberystwyth University where he met Emma. After university, Emma and Richard moved to Worcestershire, creating a wonderful home for their sons Angus and Reuben and their animals. Richard derived enormous pleasure from his home life, spending time with family and friends and taking care of their horses, pigs, sheep, goats and chickens

Richard moved into the ophthalmic industry in his late 20s and forged a very successful career in Sales and Marketing, joining Sterimedix (Redditch) in the 2000s.

His family have set up a tribute page, richardwalker.muchloved.com, and encourage people who knew Richard to visit the site to see and share photos and comments, messages and thoughts about Richard.

In his memory, Richard’s family would welcome charitable donations. Richard had been very actively involved over the years and had raised significant sums for two important local charities and his family are keen to continue this tradition. The charities are St Richard's Hospice (Worcester) and The Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. Donations to the charities can be made through richardwalker.muchloved.com.

Raising money for two such important charities that continue to do so much for the local community is one way to ensure that some good will come out of the great sadness felt by his family, friends and colleagues at this time.

The funeral service and committal will be held in compliance with Covid 19 restrictions, which means that only family and very close friends will be able to attend. The services will be live-streamed on Zoom to enable all who would like to join the services to do so. Please check the richardwalker.muchloved.com site for access details to the service.

The funeral will be held on Tuesday 30 March 2021 at Our Lady and St Joseph Church Alcester at 2.30pm, and the committal with be at The Vale, Evesham at 4.00pm.