Daughter of hardworking immigrants who not only built up a successful tailors trimming business but simultaneously raised a family of five girls and three boys. Anne was the oldest girl and went to work with her parents until she married Grandpa Charles

Grandma worked all her life until she and grandpa retired together. They were a devoted couple and lived a quiet life, spending their leisure time with their sisters and husbands and with their daughter snd son in law, my brother and me. Grandma was crippled with arthritis but never complained even though every step she took was painful. In the evenings and weekends she sat in her armchair often knitting or crocheting jumpers and scarves for me and later for Jeremy. She was highly skilled. She loved crosswords and word puzzles in the newspaper. She would have enjoyed sudoku as she had a quick, mathematical brain. She taught me to play whist and kalooki and whenever I was bored at home I would cross the drive from our block of flats to hers and sit at her drop leaf table and play cards with her. I valued her opinion but she never told me what to do. Just once -and only once- did she disapprove of my half baked plans and told me. So (listening to grandma) two weeks later I married my boyfriend. She was right it wouldn’t have worked any other way!