Colleagues pay tribute to Rob Hurdley

Specsavers in Chesterfield bids farewell to a much loved boss this month, writes friend and colleague Sarita Harrar.

'Over 650 people gathered at Rotherham Minster to bid farewell to Rob Hurdley on Friday November 9. Rob was a co-director of Specsavers Chesterfield, but above all he was a family man, a doting father to three beautiful children, a rugby player/coach, and a friend to everybody who had the good fortune to have met him.

'Colleagues miss his laughter, his cheeky jokes, and his bear hugs. He was someone they could turn to in times of need - the first to help, a shoulder to cry on, and a confidant. Words cannot describe how amazing this man truly was. Rob was one of a kind. I can't think of another person held in such high esteem, not by one, but by hundreds. As his coffin was lifted, and he left the Minster for his final journey, everybody applauded him and everything this amazing man who was taken too soon meant to us.