MICHAEL RENNEY, OF COCKERMOUTH

Last updated 06:52, Friday, 25 July 2008

HIS ENTHUSIASM for hound trailing was tremendous, and Michael Andrew Renney really knew what he was about.

Michael Renney

For with his daughter, Tracy, he owned and ran some remarkable animals.

His best dog was, probably, Crackerjack, which won the dog produce stakes in 1989 and then there was Rebecca, winner of the senior maiden trail from a big field of 68 in the 1995 international, held at Sandale, near Wigton.

Aged 59 when he died, Mr Renney was a committee member for the Cockermouth and Workington Area of the Hound Trailing Association, of which he was strong supporter at meetings and functions.

He was a Cockermouth boy who attended St Joseph’s School in the town, before going on to St Joseph’s Secondary School, in Workington.

He then became an apprentice with a local firm of painters and decorators - but he didn’t like this at all and went on to work in the coal merchant’s business founded by his father, Wilfred Renney, in Cockermouth.

Eventually, when his father retired 19 years ago, he took over the firm and became a well-known and popular businessman in the town.

He was, also, a family man who did a great deal of time for his grandchildren and planned to do more when he retired, which he expected to do around the current month.

He leaves his wife, two daughters and a son, a grandson and a granddaughter.

His funeral took place at St Joseph’s Church in Cockermouth.