Elizabeth Bacon death notice | Nhs

My friend Elizabeth Bacon, who died at the age of 86 LeicesterA childcare team.

She was also an outstanding personality in community activism in Leicester, including a member of the Leicester Environmental Group (LEAG), which was committed to environmental issues in the city, and with the local women’s refugee project, which offers a safe place for female asylum seekers and their children.

Elizabeth was born in Leather to Connie (born Dyall), a housewife, and Bernard Bacon, a political agent. During the Second World War, Elizabeth, her mother and sister Margaret, were evacuated to live with a family near Loch Lomond and give her a love for Scotland and his landscape, although less porridge. When her father was on leave from military service, they all went through the hills around the hole.

Elizabeth went to the schools in Beverley, Nottingham, Burton via Trent and Uttxeter before the family residents permanently in Sheffield. After trained as an orthoptist at Bradford Royal Infirmary in the 1950s, she started her career there and moved to the Royal Infirmary in Leicester in 1966.

I scored Elizabeth in Leag in 1972, where she played an important role in the rescue of Leicester New walka Ancient street through the city, which was threatened by destruction and also fought it, a large one Sun alliance Building in the Horsefair Street.

As a long-term member of the Labor Party, she was also a CND supporter who organized an annual book sales and a fundraiser in her garden and spent some time at Greenham Common.

Her commitment to the women’s refugee project, which was supported by local churches, began in 2000. Many of the women who helped them became friends, and she was particularly pleased when her children went up to college and successful careers.

When she moved to Leicester, Elizabeth bought a house in the suburbs with a large but simple garden that she cleared and planted. It remained her life’s work, the testimony of her love for plants and gardening. After her retirement in 1998, she joined the trust of Leicestershire and Rutland Gardens, his event manager and arranged discussions, lectures, visits and carefully curated short holidays in gardens in Great Britain.

Elizabeth loved to walk many Sundays over the years and my husband David and hiked over the years in Rutland and Leicestershire. After the discovery of Richard IIis remains in Leicester in 2012, she developed a walk from his birthplace in the Fatheringhay Castle to the place of his death, and it is now an official long -distance route, called the Richard III Trail.

She is survived by her nephew and the grand nepper Edie.