CFHS code : ED103
Parish : St Edward
Inscription : In Ever Loving Memory of HERBERT VICTOR RODELL d 25 Oct 1943 aged 52 also beloved wife LILY RODELL d 21 Jan 1959 aged 65
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203178, 0.13676689 – click here for location
Monument
This monument is three rows east of the west path and appears to be intact, but obscured by a tree that grows from the centre of the grave set.
Inscription
‘In Ever Loving Memory of HERBERT VICTOR RODELL
who passed away 25 Oct 1943 aged 52 years
Also his beloved wife LILY RODELL
who passed away Jan 21st 1959 aged 65 years’
Herbert Victor Rodell (28 January 1891 – 25 October 1943)
Herbert was the son of Arthur and Eliza Rodell, and the brother of Arthur Joseph (1885 – 1912), Sidney Percy (1894-1929), Edith Sarah (1883-1954) and Violet May (1895-1913). He was born in Cambridge and grew up at 131 Catherine Street (1891) and then Belgrave Road (1901/1911). Arthur Rodell worked as a railway signalman, and Herbert followed him to become a railway clerk. He was working as a clerk by the age of 20 (1911). He served as a telegraph clerk aboard the S.S Colchester, during the 1st World War. The boat was captured by the Germans on 22 September 1916, and Herbert was one of those held as a prisoner of war. He was not released until at least December 1918.
He married Lily Gilbert at St. Barnabas Church on 9 June 1919 and they had two daughters: Muriel Gwendoline (1920-2010) and Betty Patricia (1925-2005). In 1939 Herbert was living at 48 Coleridge Road, and working as a railway telegraph clerk. He died at Coleridge Road aged 52 years old, leaving an estate valued at £1,795 6s 4d. Obituaries noted that he had worked as a railway telepraph clerk for 38 years. The funeral was held at St. Philip’s Church, and was a choral service. The hymns At Even ere the sun was set’ and ‘Abide with me’ were sung.
Lily Rodell (nee Gilbert) (6 September 1893 – 21 January 1959)
Lily grew up at 78 Kingston Street, and was one of the four children born to Alfred and Esther Eliza Gilbert. Alfred worked as grocer’s assistant. In 1911 aged 17 Lily was working as a domestic nurse. She married Herbert Rodell when she was 25 years old. She was widowed aged 50 years old, and continued to live at 48 Coleridge Road. She died there in January 1959 aged 65 years old.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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