Rita Driver (2 Jul 1945 - 18 Oct 2022)

In loving memory of Rita Driver who sadly passed away on 18th October 2022 after a long illness. Funeral to be held on Wednesday 23rd November at 3pm. Don’t feel you have to wear black, you could wear green as it was Rita’s favourite colour. Afterwards there will be a reception at the Best Western Hotel in Claydon. Family flowers only please, donations to The British Lung Foundation via Andrew Bingham Funeral Directors.

Her life began just after WW2, and along with her parents and sister she lived in Great Blakenham. Firstly, on Hackneys Corner in an old Nissen hut, where as a young girl she would take her fathers cooked lunch to him across the road at the fuel storage bunkers, passing it under the fence. They then moved to a house along the Stowmarket Road, then called Woodfield. There was more room to play in the garden and plenty of space for her father to grow vegetables.

She met her husband in Needham Market, over a bag of chips. After they married they had two children. Rita was a loving and proud mother. Always there with support, advice and guidance. She loved her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Taking great pleasure in watching them grow. They brought her so much joy.

Rita had a few jobs in her working years. She worked in a small grocery shop, a chip shop and then in a wool shop. This wool shop was her idea of heaven, being a keen, and very good, knitter. She enjoyed working with people who understood her delight in being surrounded by so many crafting possibilities. Over the years she moved from shop to shop, always with a craft theme, until she went to work at Franklins in Ipswich. Her love for knitting was always there but now it had a new rival, patchwork! This new hobby became a passion and she went to many shows and accumulated a great stock of fabrics with which to sew. A love of crafting never left her, even when she became too unwell to be able to do it.