Mum was born in West Ham. She had one brother and four sisters. She wasn’t evacuated during the war because she didn’t want to leave her mum. Unfortunately her family home didn’t survive the Blitz. She met Dad as a young teenager and they married in 1952 settling in Barkingside, Essex. They had three daughters, Karen, Pauline and Joanne. 

Dad started working for Ford Motor Company in the early 60s and work took them to Somerset in 1962, back to Witham, Essex in 1964, and then to Brussels in 1972 where they lived in Waterloo and then Rhode St Genese for nine years. In 1981 Dad was moved to Detroit, where they lived in Bloomfield Hills for five years. During this time, Mum battled cancer and thankfully made a full recovery.

Mum and Dad both had a strong Christian faith. They started out as nonconformist/evangelicals attending Billy Graham crusades in the 1960s, but on arrival in Brussels they “shopped around” English speaking churches and found themselves most at home in St. Andrew’s Church of Scotland and remained at home in the Presbyterian church for the rest of their lives, at First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Michigan and then at St Columba’s Church in London. 

Mum and Dad always had an extremely active Church and social life at St Andrew’s Church of Scotland, in Brussels, where Dad was an Elder and played the organ for the choir, and in London at St Columba's. 

On retiring in 1986, they settled back in the UK, initially in Wimbledon, then East Molesey. When Dad died in 1999, Mum stayed in East Molesey for a further 9 years, then moved in 2008 to St Margaret’s, Twickenham where she lived until her death. Dad’s ashes were interred in the St Columba’s Columbarium and Mum’s ashes will join his.

Mum continued to be an active member of St Columba’s, helping out on the Lunch Team, the Welcome Desk and the Book Club until it was no longer possible due to ill health.

Mum is survived by three daughters, Karen, Pauline and Joanne; four grandsons, Ryan, Jack, Jamie and Tom; and two great-grandchildren, Ryan’s children … daughter Ava (aged 5), and son Caben (aged 6 months).