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Lee's Vitality Bath Half Marathon 2017
Fundraising for The Brain Tumour Charity
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My brave, courageous uncle David Syrett lost his battle against a brain tumour on 26th July last year aged just 60, and leaves behind his wife Yvonne, four daughters Kerry, Michelle, Hayley & Vicki, devoted mother Molly and brother Peter.
Please support me to raise some money on behalf of David by supporting the Brain Tumour Charity.
I will be doing one charity event a year in his honour, and after the success of raising over one thousand pounds last year, I have secured a charity place to run the Vitality Bath Half Marathon on Sunday 12th March 2017.
This is a special event as David had been to support his eldest daughter Kerry at the Bath Half Marathon before, so seemed the perfect event.
Brain Tumour Charity receive less than 2% of cancer research funding, yet less than 20% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond 5 years - like this special man.
The thanks I received from the Brain Tumour Charity, along with the support from friends and family to achieve such a substantial amount for this charity so close to my heart was a very touching moment.
Salisbury-born Dave, who attended Bemerton St John Primary School and Gillingham Comprehensive, began his promising football career as a striker with Swindon Town in the 1970s.
In 1977, he signed for Mansfield Town where he spent a year before joining the likes of Walsall, Peterborough United and Northampton Town.
But his career was cut short in 1983 at the age of 27 when he suffered a spinal injury.
Following his football career, he worked as a milkman, a groundsman and sports teacher at Warminster School before moving to Chafyn Grove school in Salisbury as head groundsman.
He was diagnosed with the tumour just the day after completing the 2015 Race for Men in the city and this year went around the same course in a wheelchair accompanied by staff and former pupils who named themselves Team Syrett.
Daughter Kerry said: “He was a wonderful father, my sisters and I are so very, very lucky. An example and role model for us all, his strength and courage this past year is an inspiration.
The determination he showed at the Race for Men in June when he walked the final stretch to the finish line is my absolute standout moment and testament to the person he was.
“We have received many cards over the past week and each one has echoed the same sentiment, that he was a true gentleman, a kind and loyal friend with a great sense of humour.
"Above all he was a very modest man, who would be extremely humbled by the touching tributes people have taken the time to share with us.
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ.
My brave, courageous uncle David Syrett lost his battle against a brain tumour on 26th July last year aged just 60, and leaves behind his wife Yvonne, four daughters Kerry, Michelle, Hayley & Vicki, devoted mother Molly and brother Peter.
Please support me to raise some money on behalf of David by supporting the Brain Tumour Charity.
I will be doing one charity event a year in his honour, and after the success of raising over one thousand pounds last year, I have secured a charity place to run the Vitality Bath Half Marathon on Sunday 12th March 2017.
This is a special event as David had been to support his eldest daughter Kerry at the Bath Half Marathon before, so seemed the perfect event.
Brain Tumour Charity receive less than 2% of cancer research funding, yet less than 20% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond 5 years - like this special man.
The thanks I received from the Brain Tumour Charity, along with the support from friends and family to achieve such a substantial amount for this charity so close to my heart was a very touching moment.
Salisbury-born Dave, who attended Bemerton St John Primary School and Gillingham Comprehensive, began his promising football career as a striker with Swindon Town in the 1970s.
In 1977, he signed for Mansfield Town where he spent a year before joining the likes of Walsall, Peterborough United and Northampton Town.
But his career was cut short in 1983 at the age of 27 when he suffered a spinal injury.
Following his football career, he worked as a milkman, a groundsman and sports teacher at Warminster School before moving to Chafyn Grove school in Salisbury as head groundsman.
He was diagnosed with the tumour just the day after completing the 2015 Race for Men in the city and this year went around the same course in a wheelchair accompanied by staff and former pupils who named themselves Team Syrett.
Daughter Kerry said: “He was a wonderful father, my sisters and I are so very, very lucky. An example and role model for us all, his strength and courage this past year is an inspiration.
The determination he showed at the Race for Men in June when he walked the final stretch to the finish line is my absolute standout moment and testament to the person he was.
“We have received many cards over the past week and each one has echoed the same sentiment, that he was a true gentleman, a kind and loyal friend with a great sense of humour.
"Above all he was a very modest man, who would be extremely humbled by the touching tributes people have taken the time to share with us.