Dozens gather to pay last respects to ‘Taxi Sally’

Wednesday 31 March 2021

A special service was held at the airport to allow people to pay their respects to Sally Falla, a popular taxi driver who died earlier this month.

A celebration of life service was held for ‘Taxi Sally’ after colleagues and business partners gathered at the airport.

Ms Falla was given the nickname after her years of taxi service to and from Guernsey Airport.

Guernsey Airport staff joined other business partners & the Guernsey taxi industry in paying their last respects to Sally Falla before a celebration of life service. Nicknamed 'Taxi Sally', she had worked on the airport rank for many years & died in early March 2021. pic.twitter.com/Fphkq1ePii

— Guernsey Airport ✈ (@GuernseyAirport) March 30, 2021

Historian Dr Gilly Carr was among those to pay their respects to the daughter of Frank Falla, one of five men involved in the writing of the Guernsey Underground News Service during World War II, for which he was deported. 

She said that Sally had played a key role in telling his story and those of many others sent away to concentration camps. 

"RIP Sally Falla, who generously lent me her father’s archive, which allowed frankfallaarchive.org to be built, the stories of over 220 islanders in Nazi prisons and camps to be told, and the bodies of lost islanders to be found," she said on Twitter. 

Pictured: People gathered at the front of the airport entrance to pay their respects.