Funeral notices share tributes and service details

Funeral notices published this week include tributes to people who died in South Shields, Newcastle and Hull, along with details of services and family requests. The announcements report the deaths and arrangements as provided by families or funeral services; the details have not been independently confirmed in the supplied material. A notice for Ray Byker says he died peacefully on September 15, 2026, aged 89. It directs enquiries to Richard Dalton Funerals but does not provide a service date or location. The notice includes other arrangements for separate services, including a request for donations to Macmillan Nurses and an instruction that a collection would take place after a service; the text does not clearly identify which named notice those details accompany. In Hull, a notice says Val Cleveland Dobson died on September 4, aged 86, and lists a funeral service for September 25 at 1:30 p.m. in Birch Hall at Lelley Fields Crematorium. The notice asks for family flowers only and says donations may be divided between Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity and the British Heart Foundation.