THE funeral service took place at St Mark's Church, Oulton Broad on July 8 followed by cremation at Gorleston Crematorium for Marion Jane Bird of Oulton Broad who passed away at James Paget University Hospital on June 20, aged 67.

THE funeral service took place at St Mark's Church, Oulton Broad on July 8 followed by cremation at Gorleston Crematorium for Marion Jane Bird of Oulton Broad who passed away at James Paget University Hospital on June 20, aged 67.

Immediate family mourners were: Andrew and Rachel (Son and Partner), Nick and Marjorie (Son and Partner), Barry (Brother), Norma (Cousin) and Brian (Partner) and Christine.

Other mourners were: Amanda Ayers and Raymond Ayers, Anne Reeve and Partner Ray Marshall (also representing family of Harry Oldman, Great Uncle), Phyllis Capps, Mr and Mrs K Gooch, Roy and Kathleen Edmonds, Valerie Howard and Rosemary Kent (Cousins), Clive Warner, Ray Woolston, Jean Harman, Gloria Rushmere, Judith Wicks, Geoff and Sally Dann, Jean Calver, Joyce Jacob (John Wilde Club), June Capps, Jennifer Gooch, Pauline Bird (Sister-in-law, also representing Geoff, Chris and Julia, Brother-in-law), Mr and Mrs J Bullen, Patricia Shreeve, Eileen Buck, David and Ruby Hayden, Rose and Denis Jackson, Carolyn Youngs, Keith and Peta Baker, Jeanette Tyrrell and Dr Simon Tyrrell, Christine Brooke, Frances Swan, Linda Friston (Philip Friston and Elaine Hignett), Stephanie Barnard, Christine Harris, Bryan and Gill Smith (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Sandra and Teresa Evans, Mr and Mrs Colin Humphreys, Anne Langstaff, Ros Hamilton-Smith (The Works, Beccles), Kathy Meades and Pam Coote, Janet Bland (Wives' Club), Barbara High (Women's Group), Pamela and Malcolm Browne, Margaret Levy, Brian and Sue Cook (Wives' Group), Eric and Margaret Jones (Wives' Group), Barbara and Gordon Burwood, Maureen Briggs, Gillian Sterry (Haydens Chemist), David and Jeanette Jackson (Haydens Chemist, representing staff past and present), Rosemary Pye, Eileen Wellington, Daphne Sendall and Olive Bass, John and June Chipperfield, Helen Marjoram (Wives' Group), Phyllis Hodgson (Wives' Group), Grace Rogers, Arthur and Doris Daniels (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Mr A Pearce (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Philip and Patricia Jarvis (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Alan Scarle, Marian Harmer, Carol Barnard, Mr and Mrs David Jeffries, Mr and Mrs J Blowers, Mrs B Edwards, Valerie Burfield, Alan Buck, Steve Martin (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Dorothy Blowers, Mrs M McGee, Mrs P Burwood (50 plus keep fit), Sheila Reeman, Angela Shetliffe, Pauline Shipley, Margaret Freeman (Wives' Group) and John Freeman, Molly Laws, Margaret Stannard, Eva Butcher (Wives' Group), Grace Peacock (Wives' Group), Heather Clarke (Wives' Group), Gloria and Trevor Smith, Cheryl Jenkins (Wives' Group), Mr and Mrs R and B Lyell (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Peter Calvert (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Gordon and Joyce Moore (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Sylvia Ramsbottom, David Hickie (Oulton Broad Bowls Club), Sheila Squibb, June Holmes and Albert Godfrey.

The family would like to thank everyone at St Mark's Church for their support and the St Mark's Wives' Group for the lovely wake. Special thanks to everyone who contributed to the service.

Donations in memory of Marion for St Marks PCC are still being collected by Anglia Co-Operative Funerals, Police Station Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 1NY. Tel 01502-583637.

Will all please accept this as the only, but most sincere, acknowledgment.