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Hundreds say final farewell to legend 'Dotty'
The Gazette
|April 25, 2025
HUNDREDS of people turned out on Thursday to say the funeral of “Thornaby legend Scott Gordon”.
A horse-drawn carriage, floral tributes and a ‘RIP Dotty’ banner, alongside around 300 people, filled Maplewood Chapel at Stockton Crematorium.
Some mourners even wore T-shirts with the 36-year-old’s face on, and another with a pendant to honour the ‘born and bred’ Thornaby dad.
Scott, who was known as ‘Dotty, passed away at the scene of a motorbike crash on April 2, but his family take comfort in the fact that he “died doing something he loved”.
This story is from the April 25, 2025 edition of The Gazette.
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