Vale Leslie Hilton Vagg
November 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Leslie (Les) Hilton Vagg passed away on Monday 23rd November 2009 at his home in Dandenong, Victoria, aged 84. The funeral ceremony will be held on Friday 27th November at 10.00am at Le Pines, Princes Highway, Dandenong, and there is certain to be a full house to help Les on his way.
Les Vagg at a party in the early years of the 1990s.
There will be an invitation to all to attend the Dandenong Club after the funeral for drinks and nibbles when friends will no doubt remember all the good times they have shared with a great guy.
I was first lucky enough to know Les Vagg in the 1970s. I was still at the height of my cricket ‘career’, while Les was near or at the end of his. We met on a monthly basis for a few years, when we both attended Cricket Association Delegates Meetings, and it was obvious that he was one who put in to all things in which he was interested. It was no great surprise that he was given Life Membership of the Cricket Association in the late 70s, though by that time, he was already playing lawn bowls with Dandenong Central Bowling Club. It was purely coincidental that in 1983, I also received Life Membership of the Cricket Association , and also whilst playing bowls with Dandenong Central Bowling Club.
In my first year of bowling, I played pennant as a second with Les as my Skipper, and he gave me, and all other younger players, all the encouragement that he could. Bowls was at that time a very sociable game, with players from both clubs enjoying a sociable drink after the game. It was during that time that I became used to seeing Les with his usual scotch and coke. In fact, after the Dandenong Club moved from the centre of Dandenong to Heatherton Road, that scotch and coke became known in the bar as a ‘Vaggy’!
Les became a friend to everyone in the Dandenong Club. It was hard for anyone to have a drink on their own, as he was quick to invite them to join us. He was known to everyone, both in the Club and in Dandenong itself.
He, like a small number of others – Bob Boone, Frank and Eileen Nicoll and Mick Merigan – became honorary members of our family, and it became the norm for them to be attendant at our family gatherings.
He will never be forgotten.
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