Watford Observer following more than 30 years apart has died.
Tony Ashby, who was originally from Bushey, had almost 19 years with his daughter Karen Perrin after she wrote a letter to this newspaper hoping to trace her father.
They re-established contact in 2002 and in July 2004 Tony moved to Canada to be near his new-found family after selling his flat, enabling them to be together permanently after being separated for so many years.
Born in Bushey in November 1944, Antony Michael Ashby, was the son of Frederick and Ada. He went on to study psychiatric nursing, which gave him a career of more than 30 years.