O B I T U A R I E S
Lorna Granlund
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Obituary written by Madeline Russell, and Lorna’s friends Lorna was born in Devon in 1922, the youngest of four children. During her early life, she went to Blundells School, where her father was school chaplain. She then started at Sherborne Girls with her sister, Ruth, where both excelled at sport. On leaving school around 1939, Lorna joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and then the Women’s Royal Naval Service. When the war ended, Lorna went on to become the Housekeeper at St Ronan’s Prep School in Kent. When Lorna’s father died in 1964, she moved to Northumberland to care for her mother. She started a job looking after student wellbeing at Alnwick Teacher Training College, before completing teacher training herself. She then taught at Amble Secondary Modern and Middle Schools, with responsibility for music. Lorna was very musical, playing the flute
in the local orchestra and wind band and teaching flute and piano at home. She was also very knowledgeable about local birds, flora and fauna, as evidenced by her own beautiful garden. Then there were her dogs, whom she loved to walk along the Northumbrian beaches with her friends, Bet and Eva. Lorna was also a founder member of the Alnwick and District Natural History Society, of which she later became president. She loved to fish, knit and create tapestries, and in her 90s took up bellringing. Those of us who knew Lorna have had our lives enriched by her courage, stoicism, love of life, stubbornness, loyalty and kindness; not forgetting her sense of fun, and her interest in everything and everybody around her. For that, we are truly thankful.
