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12 MACHINERY UPDATE MAY/JUNE <strong>2015</strong> www.machineryupdate.co.uk<br />
News<br />
PPMA stalwart Beryl<br />
Nassé has sadly died<br />
Beryl Nassé, who served<br />
as PA to the then general<br />
secretary Andrew Manly<br />
and secretary to the president<br />
and board of the PPMA for<br />
over a decade, has sadly died.<br />
Here, former PPMA head<br />
Manly pays tribute.<br />
“Beryl joined at a time<br />
when the Association was<br />
growing rapidly and also took<br />
on the role of HR manager as<br />
staffing levels increased. Her<br />
administrative powers were<br />
formidable. Such that many<br />
members of the Board were<br />
struck with terror by the size<br />
and scope of their meeting<br />
information packs – which<br />
answered any questions they<br />
would care to ask as well as<br />
a whole lot they had never<br />
even thought of!<br />
Her tendency to want to be<br />
‘mother’ to the staff did not<br />
always endear her to them,<br />
but she did it out of genuine<br />
concern for their welfare.<br />
She was loud and lived<br />
life – and often work – with<br />
gusto. She began a long and<br />
courageous fight against<br />
cancer in 2006, which caused<br />
her to retire from the PPMA,<br />
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Beryl Nassé worked for the PPMA at a time when it was growing rapidly<br />
but such was her energy that<br />
she began a whole new life,<br />
moving to Goa in India,<br />
where she remained until<br />
shortly before her death.<br />
She built a new career and<br />
found many new friends<br />
there and was held in great<br />
affection.<br />
The untimely death of her<br />
husband Pete, a Burmese by<br />
origin, was a great blow to<br />
her. But her faith and two sons<br />
Mark and Stuart as well as<br />
her Godchildren and latterly,<br />
her grandchildren were at the<br />
centre of her life.<br />
My abiding memory of Beryl<br />
is her energy and enthusiasm.<br />
A party animal to the end,<br />
wherever she is, she is still<br />
dancing.”<br />
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