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Ann Kemp, Muriel Roper was my godmother, she taught my mother and then me, and she and I coincidentally left Richmond County on the same day, when she retired and I left school.  It was indeed a horrible tragedy when she died, then Robin (her husband) died heartbroken, within the year!  Alma Davies and Ruth Smith (who had been head most of the years I was at there) both came to her packed funeral in the Abbey - were you there?  Both of those remained in touch with me at Christmas until each died.  I took my young daughter to visit Alma near the end of her life, and they got on very well.  She still had her twinkly eyes and her warm sense of humour.

Scuds had taught my mother, as had Anne Hartley - who (I think it was), died in a flat fire in Sheen in the 70s .