Derek Seager’s funeral will take place on:

Friday 28th August 2026 at 12:00pm

Aldershot Crematorium
Guildford Road
Aldershot
Hampshire
GU12 4BP

The service will be followed by a wake at a hotel in Farnborough during the afternoon. We are just finalising the arrangements for the wake and I will send the venue and details across as soon as these are confirmed.

Over the last week, Mum and I have been incredibly touched by the number of messages, memories and stories we have received about Dad. It has really brought home just how many people he met, coached, played alongside, helped and became friends with through table tennis over more than 50 years.

Table tennis was such a huge part of Dad’s life, and therefore a huge part of our family’s life too. It would mean an enormous amount to Mum and all of us to see as many of his table tennis friends and colleagues as possible at the funeral and afterwards at the wake.

Please make clear that anyone who knew Dad is very welcome to attend. We appreciate that after so many decades involved in the sport there will be many people whose contact details we simply don’t have, so please feel free to forward this email, share the arrangements through leagues, clubs, committees and groups, or pass them on personally.

We have also created a tribute page for Dad, and we would love people from the table tennis community to continue adding their memories, photographs and stories. Some of what has already been shared has been incredibly special for us to read, particularly the stories from parts of Dad’s table tennis life that we as a family might otherwise never have known about.