Royal Navy
Born: 9th March 1920.
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John Amos Webster was the son of Clarence Webster (1896-1953) and Sarah Edith Silverwood (1897-1971), who married in 1919. John’s middle name was taken from his maternal grandfather, Amos Silverwood. In 1939, John was living with his parents at 34 Park Avenue.
John married Pearl Doreen Jackson in Kippax whilst on leave in 1941 (pictured above). He married in his naval uniform. His wife, Pearl, was born in York, but her parents moved to 1 Station Cottage. Pearl’s father was John Edgar Jackson (1898-1985) who took over from William Robinson Tebb as the Kippax Railway Station Master when Tebb retired in May 1927 after 49 years’ service. Pearl’s mother was Alice Emma Johnson (1901-1984), and Alice had also brought her father George Johnson (1869-1946) to live with them at Station Cottage. In 1939 at the age of 70, George Johnson was still working for the Co-op as the horse carter, delivering groceries. Pearl was a Local Preacher in the Methodist churches, and John was a Sunday School Teacher at Kippax Wesleyan Methodist Church.
John’s address on the Service Register in 1945 was that of his wife’s at 1 Station Cottage, but after the War, they moved to 125 Station Road. In 1959, just as his wife’s family had arrived in Kippax together, so they left together and moved to Hull. John passed away in Beverley in 1978. His widow, Pearl, who was born on 9th March 1920, re-married Gordon Clark in Hull on 2nd July 1979, and passed away in Hull in 1997.
Kippax Roll of Honour 