Sandra GloverMaureen Tarlton (now Kirby) writes: Sandra Glover (married name Filsell) was at Trinity from 1958-1964, the same period as me. Sadly she died on April 11th 2002 after a long battle with cancer. I knew Sandra all the time we were at Trinity in fact in the 1963 school photo we are next to each other. We both started work at The Royal Insurance Company on the Market Square in 1964 with Margaret Patching, Jill Lucas, and Davina Seck. I left Northampton in 1970 when I married Stephen Kirby (another old boy) and although I kept in touch with Sandra and a few others with the odd meal at Christmas and Christmas cards, it wasn't until the last few months of her life that I saw Sandra on a few occasions, when I came back to Northampton to see family. I believe that Sandra had a kidney removed due to cancer a few years before she died. Unfortunately, I think the cancer then spread to her spine. Although I think she knew she wasn't going to survive, she never accepted it, and never on the occasions that I saw her let that be the topic of conversation and neither did Steve her husband. She was a very brave, very lovely person, and I feel very privileged to have known her. I had hoped to set up a reunion lunch with Sandra, Margaret Patching (now Grimbley), Jenny Massey (now Harrison) and Jill Lucas (now Thomas), but the only time we all managed to be together was at Sandra's bedside in Cynthia Spencer Hospice. She died a few days later but the two hours we all spent together was full of laughter and reminiscing. I think Steve, Sandra's husband, summed up Sandra very well when he said when Sandra made a friend she made a friend for life. She had two children and had become a grandmother a few months before she died.
Maureen Tarlton 1st August 2006 |
