Just in case you don't have these:
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
19 Oct 1964, page 9 col 8
DEATHS
RICHARDSON Lobley Hill, 68 Beechwood Gardens, in hospital on Oct 16, aged 71 years.
James (late of Newcastle Gas Board) beloved husband of Winifred.
Service and cremation at Birtley, Tuesday 10.30 a.m. Friends please meet at Crematorium.
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
28 Aug 1974, page 2 col 3
DEATHS
RICHARDSON, Lobley Hill, 68 Beechwood Gardens, in hospital on Aug 26, aged 73 years.
Mary Winifred (nee Fisher), dearly loved wife of the late James, and dear mother of Winnie, Muriel, Jim and Thelma, and a dear grandmother.
Service and cremation at Birtley on Friday, 12 noon. Private afterwards.
I checked both death dates in the Birtley Crematorium Book of Remembrance but there's no entry for either of them.
Boo