CARLTON EUGENE FIGG,
BORN 12TH JANUARY 1943
DIED 22ND NOVEMBER 2008
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Carlton grew up in Patna, Bihar. He later moved to Lucknow and joined The Pioneer, a century-old newspaper as a reporter, in (maybe) 1967, using Jaywalker as a pen-name for his column 'Around the Town'. He started out at a time when the civic authorities in Lucknow hadn't become 'thick-skinned' nor did reporters concoct stories. Most locals referred to him as Jaywalker. Carlton, who married Audrey Daniel-Palmer, had a brother who was also a journalist. Carlton was survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.
He was Big Dada to his grand-children.
Audrey Figg who was in ill-health over the past
few years passed on in Pune(?). Her mortal remains
were brought to Lucknow where she was laid to rest at the side of her late husband, Carlton.
17TH JULY 1945-7TH JULY 2014
MUM, YOU TAUGHT US US TO LIVE
AND LOVE,
YOUR LOVING CHILDREN,
BRENDA, DEXTER, ERLE AND DENISE
GRANDCHILDREN
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