Ethelwyn Mary TANNER (later HIGMAN) (1916-2005)

Ethelwyn Mary Tanner (1916-2005) was the great-niece of Eugénie Sladden (née Mourilyan).

Ethelwyn was born on 16^th February 1916 in the Farnham district of Surrey, the second of three children and only daughter of Frederick Courtney and Ethelwyn Florence Tanner.  She was baptized on 23^rd March 1916.  Her great-aunt, Mary Anna Robinson, refers to the forthcoming baptism in a letter of 19^th March.

On the outbreak of the Second World War, Ethelwyn was living with her parents in Budleigh Salterton and serving in the WAAF.  In 1943, Ethelwyn married Bryan Higman in Devon and had three sons.

Ethelwyn died on 11^th March 2005, aged 89, in Wantage Hospital.