The 'outstanding public servant' was working to help residents right up to the end.
Former Mayor of Telford and Wrekin, Leon Murray, who has died following a short illnessBorn in Jamaica, Leon moved to the borough in 1961, married his wife Barbara and had two daughters, Christine and Rachel.
In 2011, Leon was elected to Telford & Wrekin Council and voted to represent the borough as Mayor just two years later. Councillor Davies said: “Leon served both the borough and the country with such impressive dedication as a magistrate, a councillor, working with the government in various guises, in the home and foreign office and as a very senior member of the Methodist church.“He has been working hard to serve the residents of Hadley and Leegomery right up until the end, having only turned his council phone five days ago.
"And as I was going up the steps to the church another man recognised me, which was amazing. He was called William Russell and had been in the British Army in Jamaica. When he retired, he went into the Colonial office in Kingston and got to know two of my uncles. He would make the 50-mile trip to our house, I was only small and didn't remember him but he saw the family in me."
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