Much-loved teacher Lily Wilson dies aged 94
Former deputy headmistress Lily Wilson – known to many as 'Willy' and a leading light in the girl guides – has died at the age of 94.
Mrs Wilson, whose late husband was a cobbler with shops in Stourbridge, Kidderminster and Cookley, threw herself into many activities, and was also a driver for the Red Cross, delivering prescriptions to people into her 80s.
She was, for many years, a needlework teacher at the former Harry Cheshire Girls School in Kidderminster, where she became deputy head and was acting headmistress for a time.
During the Second World War, while working as a teacher in Birmingham, she was evacuated to Pipewood School in Rugeley.
She died on Sunday after a short illness, in Bridlington, East Yorkshire.
"Auntie Willy was a lovely person – and she did loads for other people," said her late husband Bert's godson Richard Matthews, 64, of Woodland Avenue, Kidderminster.
Mrs Wilson moved to Worcestershire after the war and worked at a school in Pershore before joining Harry Cheshire Girls School, which is now Baxter College.
Willy and Bert, who had no children, lived in Sebright Place, Cookley, Lowe Lane, Wolverley, and The Orchards, Franche, Kidderminster, during their time in the area.
Mrs Wilson's funeral will be at Octon Crematorium, Driffield, East Yorkshire, on Tuesday at 3pm.
