{"id":377923,"date":"2025-08-27T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377923\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:16:21","slug":"appeal-for-mourners-to-attend-birmingham-mans-funeral-after-no-family-come-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377923\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for mourners to attend Birmingham man\u2019s funeral after no family come forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite efforts by the police, coroner and local council no family for Brummie Richard Spragg, 53, have been traced and now Lichfield District Council is appealing for mourners to attend his funeral\"MournersMourners are being invited to attend the funeral of Birmingham man Richard Spragg who died at his home in Burntwood last month but no family have been traced since his death <\/p>\n

An appeal for mourners to attend the funeral of a Birmingham<\/a> man who died at his home last month has been issued by a council after no family have been found.<\/p>\n

Richard Albert Spragg hails from the Second City but died at his home in Burntwood in Staffordshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lichfield<\/a> Police said Mr Spragg\u2019s death was not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n

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His Majesty\u2019s Coroner\u2019s Office in Staffordshire had appealed for help to trace his family or next of kin. with no family coming forward, has been issued by a council.<\/p>\n

But despite efforts to locate them, no one has come forward and now Lichfield District Council has arranged a funeral for the 53-year-old.<\/p>\n

Now the council is appealing for people to attend the funeral which will be held at at Lichfield & District Crematorium in Fradley at 9am this Thursday (August 28).<\/p>\n

\"MournersMourners are being invited to attend the funeral of Birmingham man Richard Spragg who died at his home in Burntwood last month but no family have been traced since his death <\/p>\n

In a post a spokesperson for Lichfield District Council said: \u201cWe\u2019re appealing for people who may wish to attend the funeral of a Burntwood man, 53 year old Richard Spragg.<\/p>\n

\u201cRichard, who was born in Birmingham, died at home in Eastgate Street in July 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs nobody has been identified to take care of Richard\u2019s final arrangements, Lichfield District Council has organised a funeral service for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The statement continued: “It will take place at Lichfield & District Crematorium in Fradley at 9am this Thursday 28 August 2025. Richard will then be cremated.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who may have known Richard, and the public, are welcome to attend the service and we ask you to please share this post.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite efforts by the police, coroner and local council no family for Brummie Richard Spragg, 53, have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,15263,604,31076,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-377923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-lichfield","13":"tag-staffordshire","14":"tag-staffordshire-police","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101394519605420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}