On what was be be her last visit to see her father before he died at Brand Hall in 1986, aged 94, Iris Carryer told me recently, "I looked incredulously into the deep furrows of his beloved face seeing only the remnants of the terrifying tycoon he had once been." She had stayed for several weeks to be with him but finally felt obliged to return to her home in the USA. Within a short time she received word that her father had died. She didn't attend the funeral. "We had said our goodbuys," she said.
There were some who did not understand her decision but in her heart of hearts she knew that her father would understand and after all, that is all that mattered.
Mr Theodore Nikas, husband of the president of Hagen-Renaker, told me of his great affection for Sir George Wade who he referred to as 'Saint George' and described him as a very funny man who, until the end of his days retained all his faculties. From his home in California, Theodore did attend the funeral where, he said the church was filled to bursting with many more mourners having to pay their respects from the churchyard. In his will he left Theodore a picture he had painted some years earlier. 'After Van Gogh,' it is called The Hayfield and shows what real talent Sir George had for painting. The picture takes pride of place in the Nikas family home. Probably of no great financial value, to the family it is a treasured momento of a great man.
To his son Tony, Sir George had said "When I pass away tell my friends - if any of them turn up for the service - not to be sad but to rejoice, as I have had a long and happy life.
In that ' long and happy life,' he has also affected the lives of all of us and still does to this day.

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Sir George Wade in his later years