Pitlochry former farmer and community bus stalwart Ian McIntosh has died in his 96th year.
Mr McIntosh was born in 1914 in Kinloch Rannoch and after leaving school worked for Watsons buses, before moving on to work in the insurance industry in Perth and then to J. & H. Mitchell in Pitlochry.
Ian married Rita in 1936 and they went on to have son Billy and another boy, who sadly died in infancy.
Rita died in 2006, just six months short of the couple’s 70th anniversary.
The couple moved to Kinnaird Farm and then on to Bellevue, where Rita also ran a bed and breakfast. In the 1970s they moved again, to Islay in Moulin.
Mr McIntosh was a leading light in obtaining the first community bus for the area, becoming the principal driver.
He was also greenkeeper at Moulin Bowling Club, treasurer of the Masons for 15 years and a familiar face as a Highland games helper.
A long-serving elder of the East Church, he was session clerk until the churches united in 1992, when he became assistant session clerk.
