A New Orleans-style band will play at a memorial service for a Keighley man who died of leukaemia at his second home in Spain.
Cameron Kerr, 49, of View Road, Keighley, had told his family that when his time was up, that was the kind of send-off he wanted after seeing a similar group perform on a James Bond film.
And so the Shipley-based Phoenix New Orleans Parade Band will round off a celebration of life service at St Mark's Church, Utley, with an outdoor performance specially dedicated to Cameron.
He died last month after making a success of his latest business venture - a fish and chip shop in Palma, Majorca, which he ran with his wife Pauline. A celebration of life service was also held on the island where the couple lived with their 13-year-old daughter Alex.
The Utley service has been arranged to give family in Britain a chance to pay their last respects. The couple were married at St Mark's and would have celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday, the same day as the memorial service which begins at 3.30pm.
Pauline said: "Cameron was a man who loved life and lived for today and this is the kind of service he wanted."
He was a former pupil of Keighley Boys Grammar School, moving to the town from his birthplace in Ayr, Scotland, when his parents moved when he was a teenager. At one time he owned Keighley Taxis and later he and Pauline taught maths in Zimbabwe before returning to set up Sound Images video wholesale in Keighley.
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