FAMILY and friends yesterday said farewell to Scotland's Mr Funfair,
Alfred Codona, who died this week aged 79.
They gathered at his Sunset Boulevard fair on Aberdeen's seafront for
a service in the dodgem car arena, during which the coffin sat beside a
solitary dodgem flanked by flowers while the priest conducted the
service from the ticket booth.
The mourners included civic dignitaries, Aberdeen football club
manager Willie Miller and his wife Claire, who is a niece of Mr Codona,
and representatives of charities which he supported.
Mr Codona suffered a heart attack at Peebles Hydro where he and his
wife Emily had been attending an annual banquet for fairground folk.
He was born in a caravan beside his father's travelling fair in
Queensferry. The Codona Fair was one of Scotland's largest in the 1920s.
Alfred spent the summer months working for the fair but in winter
attended school in Glasgow.
Mr Codona settled in Aberdeen 25 years ago and helped build up the
family business, John Codona's Pleasure Fairs Ltd, its most recent
addition being the #1.5m Sunset Boulevard complex.
The fairground service was followed by another at Aberdeen
crematorium.
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