The last of a generation. An extraordinary woman for her time. What a career as a teacher and school principal! What an outrageous laugh! What an ability to make you feel about 3 inches high, when warranted. I am sad at her passing, but somewhat relieved for her. She had been struggling so much over the last few weeks.
A great lady...
Dorothy was Eve and Harold's cousin, the daughter of Ernest May and May Ford Goreham. She had a sister called Barbara who was two years older, who died from a Mitral Stenosis in her 40s. Neither of the girls had children, a sad ending to a branch of the tree.
My reference to her teaching days, is that she was a teacher with the forces school in Hanover, Germany, and I visited her there in 1960 on my way back from staying with a pen friend in Hamburg (Graf Friedrich zu Castell-Rudenhausen). Later Dorothy became headmistress at Mitcham Primary School in Surrey, UK.
This blog is for descendants of the Martin and Hughes family - which of course includes many other family names (such as May, Roberts, Barrett, Gollop, It is constructed as a series of letters to grandchildren focusing on one part of the family each month and providing detail of what we know, what we can speculate and also available photographs. The idea really is that a new generation should know where they come from, and should admire some of the successes of forebears.