NICOLA, WHO was known to many people in Caversham and was regarded with considerable affection because of her warmth and kindness, died 24 September 2022.
Earlier this summer she had enjoyed being one of the team of volunteers running the WonderZone Holiday Club (reported in the September edition of the paper). Nicola was taken ill whilst on holiday in Cornwall with her husband Bernard, and died In Plymouth Derriford Hospital of complications from pancreatitis.
Readers of the Caversham Bridge will be familiar with several poems she contributed to the paper in recent years. She was, in fact, a previously published, and competition-winning, poet in her youth.
She will be greatly missed by her husband and family, and by the many people who knew and loved her.
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