ARTHUR GARRETT
5/04/2008
It is with sadness that we record the death of one of our residents at the age of 95. Arthur lived in our homes for 17 years - at all three of our sites at some time.
His initial hopes of becoming a journalist were quashed when he was told he was under-qualified so became a printer instead. He still harboured a yearning to write and when he came back from the Middle East where he'd been serving in the war he was told that the standard of his letters he wrote home were such that the editor who had previously refused him a job would now employ him.
A successful career in the regional press followed as he worked his way up to deputy editor of the Hampshire Telegraph weekly series, then deputy editor of the Portsmouth Evening News until 1965.