Message From Frank Casper - A Former Member Sugar Tiler, Sadly Passed Away.

[LincsMiller]

PS.. Where is FrankCasper??

[CTMilller]

ELK, I’m sure CT Milller will be deeply moved by this news as he knew Sugar Tiler well.

If I recall, CT once introduced me to Sugar at Oxford Utd’s ground several years ago.

Once again we lose another of our fellow fans.

RIP Sugar and sincere condolences to his family and friends ♥️

Thanks, Brin. You were very much of that era on Millersmad and will remember ST very well.

I think the person I introduced you to at the Oxford United game was the chap who went by the name of Croglin on this board. He was of the same generation as ST and he and I also became very good friends through a common love of the Millers and West Coast music.

I'm sorry to say that Croglin had also been extremely ill recently and has spent several months in hospital, and now in a nursing home where he is attempting to rebuild his strength to make a return to his home.

[leedsmiller]

Very sad news. I didn't know him personally but we had a few chats some years ago. Always respected his wit and well-crafted arguments. RIP Sugar and condolences to family and friends.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Many thanks for passing on this news, Ericslad, and please thank Frank Casper for his communication. I'd not heard this until I read your post and, despite knowing that SugarTiler always skated on very thin ice health-wise, news of his passing still came as something of a shock.

I got to know Sugar through the Millermad board and always enjoyed his wit and knowledge on here. Who can forget his epic arguments with Zilzal about the damage caused to the club by the Pursehouse family, his threats to have Eggy Rimes and the other enforcer from Tickhill come after those who crossed him and what he would do when he ruled the world. His musical knowledge was prodigious and his quiz questions almost unanswerable. (I never believed that sound engineer, Dinky Dawson, brought Roger McGuinn and all The Byrds round to Dinky's mum's house in Rotherham for a cup of tea before the group's Sheffield gig until Sugar produce a photograph to prove it...)

The man behind Sugar Tiler was a deeply interesting character. I've just been reading through some of the dozens of emails we shared over the past thirteen years or so. He was Rotherham Grammar School boy who spent most of his working life with Mind, the mental health charity.

However in his younger years, he worked for WEA, (Warner - Elektra - Atlantic,) the music company, in various roles connected to A and R. He spent some time living in Los Angeles and working for WEA and seemed to know a lot of the great and good connected to the music industry. One of my favourite stories concerned Jackson Browne (a hero of mine) who Sugar had to look after on his first visit to the UK to promote his first album. He spoke of taking a very young and wide-eyed Jackson and David Lindley, his brilliant accompanist, to a recording session at the BBC studios and then to an evening at the Speakeasy Club.

Sugar grew up in the East Dene area and was a lifelong Millers fan. Although we didn't know each other then, we would have stood just a few feet apart on Kids Corner in front of the main stand at Millmoor in 1960/61. Apart from periods in London and the USA, he always lived in the Rotherham area - most recently in the Walkley area of Sheffield. Sugar's wife was a producer for Radio Sheffield and they seemed to have a lot of contacts with people in the entertainment industry.

I've emailed one of his two daughters today to offer my condolences. I think there may be a couple of people who read Millersmad who were at school with him and may have known him better than I did. If so, apologies if anything I've said doesn't ring true.

Although we corresponded for more than thirteen years, we only met twice - given where I've been living. (Both times were pub rendez-vous, of course: the first the platform bar at Sheffield Midland station; the second the Stag on Bawtry Road going out towards The Brecks.) Sugar was also burdened for a large number of his later years by a life threatening and debilitating illness which meant he spent long periods in hospital and was pretty much housebound from the pandemic onwards. I wouldn't be surprised if this was what did for him.

Requiescat In Pacem, old lad...you'll be missed.

Thanks for the story about Sugar Tiler, it showed a insight to his background.
Frank Casper did say, that Sugar Tiler worked with M.I.N.D.

I passed [photo-shot ] on all messages to Frank Casper.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

PS.. Where is FrankCasper??

When there were problems with the [ footymad Millers Mad, sometime since ] he could not sign in,
no matter how he tried, so gave it up has a bad job.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

PS.. Where is FrankCasper??

Frank Casper sends his regards.
He thinks you owe him a pint

[Brin]

Thanks, Brin. You were very much of that era on Millersmad and will remember ST very well.

I think the person I introduced you to at the Oxford United game was the chap who went by the name of Croglin on this board. He was of the same generation as ST and he and I also became very good friends through a common love of the Millers and West Coast music.

I'm sorry to say that Croglin had also been extremely ill recently and has spent several months in hospital, and now in a nursing home where he is attempting to rebuild his strength to make a return to his home.

Ah yes Croglin. Yes it was him at Oxford and so sad to read of his current plight. Thanks for the reminder.

We are getting much older and as the days drift by you seem not to realise just how old your fellow fans are until that fateful day they pass. My good Lady informed me yesterday Robert Duval had passed, he played the family lawyer in The Godfather. He was 95! Again you just don't realise how old some people were/are until something gives you a nudge to remind you.

Take care everyone and live life to the full, do things you had always wanted to but always put them off for another day. There's no replay in life just a one shot chance. Anyway enough of all this, I'm off to make a nice breakfast and prepare myself for the vist to Burton this evening. HAVE A GOOD DAY ALL

[CTMilller]

I've been in touch with one of Sugar Tiler's daughters who filled in a few more details about his passing. She mentioned that hearing from so many of the people who knew him has been a great comfort to the family.

Sugar died on January 12 from complications arising from his long term health problems. His daughter sent me a copy of an article recently published in the Rotherham Advertizer which many of you will have seen without necessarily knowing that Jack Coy was Sugar Tiler. (Holly, his daughter, suggested that I circulate this to people I know so there is no issue about mentioning his true name on here.)

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/jack-coy-rotherham-man-who-spent-his-life-helping-others-has-died-5505689

[LincsMiller]

Frank Casper sends his regards.
He thinks you owe him a pint

Shame about what happened to FC, met him just once but seemed to be a really good bloke .

[CAMiller]

I've been in touch with one of Sugar Tiler's daughters who filled in a few more details about his passing. She mentioned that hearing from so many of the people who knew him has been a great comfort to the family.

Sugar died on January 12 from complications arising from his long term health problems. His daughter sent me a copy of an article recently published in the Rotherham Advertizer which many of you will have seen without necessarily knowing that Jack Coy was Sugar Tiler. (Holly, his daughter, suggested that I circulate this to people I know so there is no issue about mentioning his true name on here.)

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...s-died-5505689

Thanks for that CT.

RIP Sugar/Jack

[millersrus]

Many thanks for passing on this news, Ericslad, and please thank Frank Casper for his communication. I'd not heard this until I read your post and, despite knowing that SugarTiler always skated on very thin ice health-wise, news of his passing still came as something of a shock.

I got to know Sugar through the Millermad board and always enjoyed his wit and knowledge on here. Who can forget his epic arguments with Zilzal about the damage caused to the club by the Pursehouse family, his threats to have Eggy Rimes and the other enforcer from Tickhill come after those who crossed him and what he would do when he ruled the world. His musical knowledge was prodigious and his quiz questions almost unanswerable. (I never believed that sound engineer, Dinky Dawson, brought Roger McGuinn and all The Byrds round to Dinky's mum's house in Rotherham for a cup of tea before the group's Sheffield gig until Sugar produce a photograph to prove it...)

The man behind Sugar Tiler was a deeply interesting character. I've just been reading through some of the dozens of emails we shared over the past thirteen years or so. He was Rotherham Grammar School boy who spent most of his working life with Mind, the mental health charity.

However in his younger years, he worked for WEA, (Warner - Elektra - Atlantic,) the music company, in various roles connected to A and R. He spent some time living in Los Angeles and working for WEA and seemed to know a lot of the great and good connected to the music industry. One of my favourite stories concerned Jackson Browne (a hero of mine) who Sugar had to look after on his first visit to the UK to promote his first album. He spoke of taking a very young and wide-eyed Jackson and David Lindley, his brilliant accompanist, to a recording session at the BBC studios and then to an evening at the Speakeasy Club.

Sugar grew up in the East Dene area and was a lifelong Millers fan. Although we didn't know each other then, we would have stood just a few feet apart on Kids Corner in front of the main stand at Millmoor in 1960/61. Apart from periods in London and the USA, he always lived in the Rotherham area - most recently in the Walkley area of Sheffield. Sugar's wife was a producer for Radio Sheffield and they seemed to have a lot of contacts with people in the entertainment industry.

I've emailed one of his two daughters today to offer my condolences. I think there may be a couple of people who read Millersmad who were at school with him and may have known him better than I did. If so, apologies if anything I've said doesn't ring true.

Although we corresponded for more than thirteen years, we only met twice - given where I've been living. (Both times were pub rendez-vous, of course: the first the platform bar at Sheffield Midland station; the second the Stag on Bawtry Road going out towards The Brecks.) Sugar was also burdened for a large number of his later years by a life threatening and debilitating illness which meant he spent long periods in hospital and was pretty much housebound from the pandemic onwards. I wouldn't be surprised if this was what did for him.

Requiescat In Pacem, old lad...you'll be missed.

Lovely piece that.

RIP sugar tiler
Once a miller..

[kempo]

RIP Sugar Tiler.
No more pain.