The Daily News is reeling from the loss of another well-known stalwart Graham Linscott, 83, who died in Howick on Thursday, December 11. His death is the secondwithin a week offormer editor Dennis Pather, 80, who passed away on Sunday. Linscott, a former associate editor, was also an accomplished writer and freelance sub-editor, having penned, among others,The Last Outpost;Ricochets: The Life Story of Adventurer, Mercenary, Soldier and Aircraft Hijacker Peter Duffy; andInto the River of Life, about conservationist Ian Player.
Funeral arrangements for Linscott have yet to be announced. Pather’s funeral service on Saturday will be held at the St Thomas’ Anglican Church on Musgrave Road, Durban, commencing at 10am