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Details of Event: Craven Herald: 11th August 1944 (Page 7 – Sutton news). DEATH OF MINES WORKER The death occurred on Wednesday week of Mr William Robert Simons at the age of twenty years, following an accident at the Thornhill Lees Colliery, Dewsbury. He was the only son of Mr and Mrs George C. Simons of Hazelgrove, Sutton. He went into the mines as a “bevin boy”. He was well known in the district and highly esteemed. As a boy he achieved considerable distinction as a boy soprano and was for a time a member of the Sutton Baptist Church choir. The funeral took place of Monday the service at Sutton Parish Church being taken by the Rev. O.R. Plant (vicar) who referred in sympathetic terms to the loss which not only relatives but the village of Sutton had sustained. Mr W.T. Goodfellow was at the organ. The bearers who were all workmates of the deceased when he worked in Sutton were Messrs Allan Green, Ralph Green, J. Kettlewell and Alec Baldwin and included in the mourners were representatives of the Thornhill Colliery. The floral tributes included wreaths from workmates at Rose Mount Works, the choir of Sutton Baptist Church and officials and workmates at Thornhill Colliery. His grave is at St Thomas’s church, Sutton in Craven, Keighley, about 10 metres due west of the centre of the tower wall, NGR 400710.444140.