Mike Fountaine (Wn 44-48) passed away on New Year’s Day 2024 at the age of 91, after having a stroke a few days earlier.
We are grateful to his daughter, Jane, for the following obituary:
Mike was at Bloxham just after the war, a time of rationing, and remembered growing a lot of the food they ate, including potatoes that stayed frozen in the ground during the harsh winter of 1947, and milking cows at a local farm. Each day he saved his sugar allowance in order to give his mother a jam jar of sugar at the end of term. He stayed friends with many of his fellow pupils over the years, with Tim Brown (Wn 48-51) attending his funeral earlier this year. Mike was a House Prefect and Secretary of the School’s Young Farmers Club. He earned his Colts Rugby colours in 1947 and won the Junior High Dive and Standing Dive at that year’s Swimming Sports.
His great passion in life was farming which he continued doing right up until the end, with his wife Isobel and son Richard (Wn 76-81). As well as Isobel and Richard, he is survived by his daughters Julie and Jane (Wf 83-85), eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His other son Charlie (Wn 78-81) passed away in 2001.
