‘the sensitivity of her faith and her professional training for the theatre enabled her to bring special enrichment to our worship...’
MARYANN TURNER 23 August 1934 - 17 July 2012 by David Banks
ArYAnn Turner kept a long succession of blue budgerigars, eighteen of them in all, named George I, George II, George III and so on, right up to George xIx – since there was, of course, no George xIII. The last of the
She knew my favourites were broad beans
she charged me a premium. The proceeds from her sales of produce and handicrafts were given in aid of one of her many causes, Cricket Club - of which she was patron. over the years the parochial church councils
Born in India in 1934,
commitment and wisdom. The sensitivity of her faith and her professional training for the theatre enabled her to bring special enrichment to our worship when she read from Holy Scripture at the lectern.
new Zealand followed by drama school in London. was the stage, and who continued to work until shortly before she died,
springing from her strong Christian convictions, were married to an infectious
appeared in EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill and several other highly popular television programmes. dividing her time between London and
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humour and sense of fun. Her gentle inquisitiveness and capacity to relate to people of all ages and backgrounds led her to extend a warm welcome and hand of friendship to many newcomers and
in many aspects of community life both
an active member of the Conservative Party in both Kensington and norfolk. Always busy baking and preserving, knitting
she had a cottage, longstanding family connections and, it seemed to me, cousins in almost every nearby village. She was
output was spectacular. Fruit and vegetables she grew in norfolk were sold from her shopping trolley during Sunday morning coffee
she and her mother, Kathleen, were devoting much of their time to running an old folks’ club in Chelsea, even though many of the elderly were in fact considerably younger than Kathleen.
to the nearby churchyard so that I could pay now lies there too, her body committed by Father Gareth to the norfolk soil and her soul to the love of her redeemer.
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