THE funeral details have been announced for 88-year-old Jack Platt who died hours after being found following a two day search.
The service will take place at 10am on Wednesday, August 8 at St James’ Church in Rainhill, followed by a short service at 11am at St Helens Crematorium and a wake at the Gerard Arms.
The family have requested no black clothes or flowers and that any donations go to Willowbrook Hospice.
Granddad-of-six Jack, who went missing from Reeve Court Retirement Village on Saturday, July 21, was found next to a lake in Waterside Village just after 3pm on Monday, July 23 following a community led search.
Hundreds of residents from the town set out to find the former army veteran from Rainhill, who suffered from dementia, creating search parties covering areas of the borough to find him and sharing updates on social media.
When he was found he was partly submerged in the lake suffering with hypothermia, and was taken to hospital following an hour long rescue from emergency services.
However at 10.30pm that night, his family announced his death via a statement on the Find Jack Platt Facebook page, thanking those who helped find him by saying “our small town rallied together to help a man that they’d never met or even heard about.”
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