Jo was born in Banff in 1935.  She spent an idyllic childhood on the Aberdeenshire coast, before moving with the family first to London and then to Huntingdonshire.

She was 17 when she met Derek at a dance on a post-war Lincolnshire air-base.  Four years later they married in Shepherds Bush - the start of 65 years of inseparable happiness.

Jo died on 30 June.  She is mourned, and still much loved by Derek, their children Jayne and Tim, and their families.