Dorothy Dunnett
DOROTHY Dunnett, of Edinburgh Road, Newmarket, died at Lakenheath Village Home on November 30 after her health slowly deteriorated throughout 2009. She was one month short of being 96.
Born in Shotley, near Ipswich, she had lived in Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, and since retirement in Newmarket.
After leaving school she was a housemaid, and during the war years worked in a nursery. Thereafter she was a farm manager's wife, and as well as looking after the family, took in lodgers.
She had an enduring faith, and loved the Methodist church. She sang in various choirs including at ChristChurch, Newmarket, played the piano, enjoyed singing, reading, knitting, listening to the radio and walking when able.
Mrs Dunnett leaves two daughters, Pauline and Jenny, and two grandchildren, Alice and Sam.
Her funeral was held at ChristChurch, Newmarket, and West Suffolk Crematorium, Risby, on December 11. The services were taken by the Rev Angeleena Keizer and the organist was Noel Goodman.
Family mourners were: Pauline and Fred Willcox, Jenny and Doug Fennell, Alice and Sam, Ron Stanley, Venetia, Sylvia and Colin Phillips, Wendy Gilbert, Diane and Jim Meadows, Roger Dunnett, Michael Dunnett, Helen and David Davies, Nigel and Lindsey Collingwood, and Simon, Lucy and Daisy Collingwood.
Other mourners were: Noel and Gill Goodman (rep John and Nancy Howe), Eva Willbye (Margaret Knights), Mr R Southgate (Mrs J Southgate), Ann and Barry Thomas, John and Maureen Boyce, Roy and Kay May (Hazel and David Merryman, Christine Brinkley and Kathleen and Fred Bye), Mr and Mrs D Logan, Gill and Keith Till, Angela and Trevor Easter, Sylvia and Keith Millard, Jeanette Neilson, Tracey Worley and Jackie Jackson (Lakenheath Village Home), Mrs C Green, Pat Boland, Winifred Dow, Janet and Chris Brook (Bill and Pam and Andrew Smith), Beryl and Ivan Peacock (Wickhambrook Methodist Church), Pat Eyres, Edna Lane (girls from HSBC), Adrienne Brookes, Mr and Mrs J Houselander, Phyllis Edgley (Gracie Ungless), Thelma Coombes, Mary Faherty, Mary Bradley, June Maltpress, Ivor Brown and family (Mr and Mrs Robert Keene), Monica and Maurice Woollard, Pat Jarvis, Linda Gridley, Sylvia and Gerry Nixon, Mrs J Parton (Miss D Vizard), Judy Herridge, June Griffin (The Stable), Lynnette Tonge (David Tonge), Nicholas Fell (Mrs J Fell), Julie Tootell, Judith Harris, Bridget Taws and Shan Chung.
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