Individual Details
Annie "Ann or Nan" WEST
(1 Jan 1918 - 4 Dec 2003)
Occupation: School dinner lady at Camm's Eckington, Derbyshire
Preferred to be called Ann, or Nan.
At 4:06 am.
A service at Eckington Parish Church at 1:15 pm, where at Nan's request the hymns 'The Church's One Foundation' and 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus' were sung.
Cremation at 2:15 pm.
A gathering at Eckington Civic Centre afterwards.
A bright, sunny but cold day
Annie and her sister, Mabel, had gone to Sheffield, and had arranged to meet two friends at the Marples Hotel in Fitzalan Square, where the friends worked. As they neared the hotel the air raid siren sounded, and Mabel decided that the safest course was to go home.
Later that evening, the Marples received a direct hit from a German bomb, and about 70 people who had taken shelter there were killed, including the two friends.
Preferred to be called Ann, or Nan.
At 4:06 am.
A service at Eckington Parish Church at 1:15 pm, where at Nan's request the hymns 'The Church's One Foundation' and 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus' were sung.
Cremation at 2:15 pm.
A gathering at Eckington Civic Centre afterwards.
A bright, sunny but cold day
Annie and her sister, Mabel, had gone to Sheffield, and had arranged to meet two friends at the Marples Hotel in Fitzalan Square, where the friends worked. As they neared the hotel the air raid siren sounded, and Mabel decided that the safest course was to go home.
Later that evening, the Marples received a direct hit from a German bomb, and about 70 people who had taken shelter there were killed, including the two friends.
Events
| Marriage | 22 Oct 1898 | Eckington, Derbyshire, England - Living | |||
| Birth | 1 Jan 1918 | Eckington, Derbyshire, England |  | ||
| EDUC | 1923 | Camm's Church of England School, Church Street - Eckington, Derbyshire | |||
| Anecdote | 12 Dec 1940 | | |||
| Marriage | 10 May 1941 | Eckington, Derbyshire - Living | | ||
| Occupation | 1967 | School dinner lady at Camm's - Eckington, Derbyshire | |||
| Death | 4 Dec 2003 | 26 Pinfold Street, Eckington, Derbyshire, England | | ||
| Cremation | 10 Dec 2003 | Brimington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire | |||
| Reference No | 5 | ||||
| Baptism | Eckington, Derbyshire |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Alfred Frank WEST (1876 - 1941) |
| Mother | Gertrude MASSICKS (1879 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Alfred Massick WEST (1898 - 1970) |
| Sibling | Harold Ernest WEST (1901 - 1905) |
| Sibling | George WEST (1902 - 1905) |
| Sibling | Colin WEST (1905 - 1976) |
| Sibling | Frank WEST (1906 - 1995) |
| Sibling | Mabel Gertrude WEST (1908 - 2007) |
| Sibling | Bernard WEST (1910 - 1974) |
| Sibling | Raymond WEST (1912 - 1983) |
| Sibling | Norah WEST (1914 - 1971) |
| Sibling | Ivy WEST (1916 - 1997) |
| Sibling | Bertram WEST (1921 - 1973) |
Endnotes
1. Copy Birth Certificates, Registration District: Chesterfield. Sub District: Eckington. No: 193 in book 125.~~A sho.
2. GRO, GRO Index of Births, Record Type: Microfilmed Index, Chesterfield 7b 1282.
3. Frank Lowe, Personal communication with Frank Lowe, Interviewer: Geoff Lowe.
4. Copy Marriage Certificates, Registration District: Chesterfield Ref: D2 719824 No: 389.
5. GRO Index of Marriages, Record Type: Microfilmed Index, Chesterfield 7b 2380.
6. GRO Index of Deaths, Record Type: Microfilmed Index, Chesterfield E6F 003.