Former carpenter with asbestos-related mesothelioma dies at age 60
A former carpenter and builder who was exposed to asbestos on the job has lost his six-year battle with mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the lung lining caused by asbestos exposure. John Towersey, of Hextable, England, worked as an apprentice carpenter in the 1960s and later became a builder. After his diagnosis of mesothelioma, Mr. Towersey also provided support to others with the disease through the Barking and Dagenham Asbestos Victims Support Center in Essex, England.
Four years before Mr. Towersey’s death, his mother also died of mesothelioma at the age of 82. At the inquest, the coroner ruled that she developed mesothelioma due to her exposure to asbestos from washing her son’s work clothes in the 1960s.
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