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As Flipper has said, a good turn-out for Cedric yesterday afternoon, crematorium was so full it was standing room only out in the entrance lobby!

Faces there included: Mike & Sue Bateson, Heather Kenderleit-Badcock, Brian Palk, Ian Hayman, Anne Sandford, Kevin Hill, Andy McFarlane, Steve Tully, Bruce Stuckey, Jimmy Aggrey, Paul Holmes, Robbie Herrera, Derek Dawkins plus others!

For those who knew Cedric it was a lovely turnout for his funeral today. I'm sure his family would have been pleased. There were lots of faces from yesteryear including players, managers, owners/chairman. A fitting farewell for a true Torquay fan and a lovely fella as anyone who new him will tell you.
Good bye Ceds, RIP.

Cedric's funeral will take place on -

[b]Date[/b]: 29th January 2018 (Monday)
[b]Venue[/b]: Torquay Crematorium
[b]Time[/b]: 4:15pm

Really sorry to hear this news. Cedric was a great ambassador for TUFC. We always passed the time of day every time we met at Plainmoor greeting me with a cheery hello always remembering my name and when my son came, his too.
A real loss.

Passed the time of day with Cedric some time before Christmas. He didn't know me from Adam but still gave me a smile and a greeting.

Nice to know he was held in such high regard.

Really sad news, Cedric was a proper club man with such enthusiasm and energy. My father and I met him many times at Plainmoor, often to say hello to, had many laughs as well and especially a few times at sponsored games, brilliant guy.

The first time I met Cedric was surreal as it was at a trial match for TUFC u16's Cedric was there at the session, I got "sandwiched", as I fell put my hand down and broke my wrist. Cedric legged it across the pitch (didnt he move) yelling , stop, stop as I tried to play on, he grabbed me and led me away. I asked as I held my wrist "what have I done", Cedric replied "What have you done, you've broke the bastard thats what you've done" Blunt but it sort of put me at ease. When I returned to the u16's in a cast a while later Cedric was brilliant to me, warm, friendly and encouraging.

R.I.P, Cedric, TUFC will badly miss you.

Part of the plainmoor family that's for sure.

A minutes silence is fitting tribute

Lovely guy, i think he was commercial manager when I first met him. Always passionate about the club and I remember him passing me on the st marychurch rd driving the youth squad in the tufc minibus.
Condolences to his family

As I posted earlier in this thread; Cedric and I went back years ~ as did many people with him ~ and it is another blow to the Torquay United Family to lose him so soon after the passing of Ian Twitchin.

Condolences to Donna and Dean

A fitting tribute now up on the OS - and a minutes silence to be observed at tomorrows game, for a real club legend - players may come and go but its people like Ced that are the lifeblood of the football club through all the good times and all the bad too.

https://www.torquayunited.com/cedric-munslow/

RIP Ced, you will be missed

Rest in peace sir
Didn't know him , have spoke to him years ago and clearly a character and a football bloke.

Condolences to the family

Very sad to report that Cedric has today passed away.

RIP Cedric

Cedric was a 'groundstaff boy' at Plainmoor ~ he's five years older than me ~ in the early sixties; that was the forerunner of the apprentice system and there is a wonderful story of how groundsman Freddie King gave him a job with an air rifle getting rid of the gulls and pigeons in the old grandstand rafters, those in the Cow Shed and the Popular Side; and ended up getting hit in the arse from a less than impressed 'Ced'....I don't know if he held ambitions to be a 'hitman' in those days but he did have a brother (Dave) who was a goalkeeper.

I first ran into him when he was player-manager of Devon General FC in the Torbay Wednesday League; he was a driver based at the garage in Newton Road Torquay and I was a driver at Newton Abbot ~ we used to 'meet' on the number twelves....if I know Cedric he more than likely tucked in behind my bus doing all the work for him and his conductor! :~D

He and I also crossed paths when I began refereeing and he was managing Kingsteignton Athletic; all that seems a very long time ago now.

[b]Later our fortunes followed similar paths when he took on the job in the Commercial Dept that I had once held. I'm so sad to learn of him being in Rowcroft; if anyone visits him please pass on my regards.[/b]

He may have "oozed" TUFC but his team is West Ham.

Remember chatting too him day before the barnet game in 2001 , can't remember what we were talking about but of course he oozed torquay united.
Having a thought for you and wishes for you and your family.