Funeral on September 29th 1975 of Emma Maud Byrd, aged 77 years. Mrs Byrd was taken ill a few weeks before her death in Avonside Hospital. Until her last illness she had lived with one of her sons in Sidings Cottage, Aldington, from where she would walk into Evesham to do her shopping. Born into the Morris family of Evesham, she married the late Sam Byrd, market gardener of Aldington, where they lived for many years, first in the village and later in the cottage near the railway bridge.
Published in the November 1975 Parish Magazine.