Colourful, charming father of five dies after a heart attack

A DAD-OF-FIVE from Derby known for his charm and charisma has died after suffering a heart attack.

Frank Greaves, who was known as Fatty to his friends, died on June 16.

The colourful character was well known for his volunteer work in women’s charity boxing and his time spent in pubs around Derby in the 1990s.

Mr Greaves had five children – Vicky, Matt, Kyann, Brendan and Frankie-J – and four grandchildren named Anthony, Callum, Jack and Jenson.

He had worked as a builder, for a radiator firm and for a loans company in his younger years and, in later life, helped to set up the women’s charity group Pink Collar Boxing.

Vicky Greaves, 36, said: “He played a big part of setting that up in 2012. That’s when he was in his prime – everyone knew my dad’s name.”

Mr Greaves was also well known from his time spent drinking in Derby pubs such as the Mitre, the Nightingale and the Osmaston Park in the 1990s.

A fan of the great outdoors, he loved camping in Dovedale and visiting Thorpe Cloud, as well as having the sand between his toes at beaches in Blackpool or Skegness.

Miss Greaves said: “He was very charismatic. You could be really annoyed at him, but his face would make you feel sorry for him. When people say ‘he could sell snow to an Eskimo,’ that was him. I don’t know how he got away with it.”

Miss Greaves said it was her father’s sense of humour and his ability to put people at ease that endeared others to him.

She said: “We had a bit of an up and down relationship – we were both quite similar and stubborn. So if I fell out

He was very charismatic. When people say ‘he could sell snow to an Eskimo’, that was him.

Frank Greaves, known as a colourful character, died of a heart attack on June 16. Above, Mr Greaves with Brendan, one of his five children