It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Shirley McCann. Shirley died in July - her death was very sudden - at her car as she was about to go shopping one Saturday morning. None of us could be sad at the manner of her death, but we mourn her loss. Shirley's family is in shock at her sudden death - her daughter Roslyn said that she had felt her mother was not as well as she had been, but whenever she asked after her health, Shirley, being Shirley and fiercely independent, would reply that she was well.
It is only when someone dies, that you realise how very little you really know about them. Shirley often talked of her daughter and son and the families' doings; she had talked a little of her working life - in engineering - and when I asked her if she had ever written the story of her life as it sounded so interesting and ahead of her time, she said the family were always asking her to write it down. I hope she did.
Shirley had been with our group since its formation. She was unfailingly cheerful, bright, talkative and happy. She was very down to earth and had a great, often cheeky, sense of humour - a person my mother would have described as a "wag"! Everyone misses her enormously and will continue to do so.
Our hearts go out to her family.
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