Audrey Tarrant (1 Apr 1929 - 4 Nov 2022)

We are so very grateful to everyone who has kindly made a donation in memory of Audrey Tarrant.

May it give you comfort to know that these donations will be put to the best use possible in caring for those in need of our assistance, in over 3,000 missions we attend each year.

Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex

In loving memory of Audrey

I will miss you lovely smile and sweet nature Audrey, RIP.

with fond memories

With such fond memories of Aunty Audrey, we loved her getting involved in our family zoom quizzes during lockdown even though she was in her 90s!

We met Audrey at the Bowls Club,such a lovely Lady - good at quizzes, crib, rummikub, very knowledgeable, brilliant memory to the end.

Audrey will be sadly missed by all.

lots love Sally, Ian and Jon x x x

We have fond memories of Audrey as someone who was always ‘there’ at the Wisdom of God services and events. We remember her indomitable spirit and being ‘up for’ pretty much anything from getting on to the footplate of locomotives to driving her mobility scooter out onto Colley Hill. She had a great sense of humour and an infectious smile and giggle. She will be sadly missed.

In memory of all your visits to Bude.
A lovely lady who will be sadly missed.

A lovely memory from Molly - Audrey's friend for over 80 years!

Hello Gill and Ann, It was such a shock to get your news, I have been thinking of her ever since, and looking back over my life as well. I have been wondering when we first met, it must have been at Sydenham school in the 1930’s, I am 10 months older, but I guess we were in the same class, with the same teachers. My sister, Beryl was evacuated to Cornwall in 1940, I had a year at Secondary school in Croydon, then we all went to visit her in Week-St Mary at Xmas, and my Mother found a place for me to stay with as relation of the people Beryl was living with and of course I knew Miss Pratt of old. Mr Martin was from the Sydenham Boys school and came with his wife and family. Your Mother, as you know, was billeted at the Temperance Hotel in the heart of the village. There we only 2 classes, which sounds impossible, from infants to leavers, but we must have had some sort of a rough education, Miss Pratt’s main interest was “country dancing, so we got plenty of exercise, “Pop” Martin had been an officer in the 1st world war, but was a very good teacher. Your Grandmother lived in Week St Mary too to begin with, and also two of Audrey's brothers, I remember also a small younger sister? Was her name Betty? It is all a long time ago, but looking back, we all got on well, and I took to life in the country. I have a picture of the school on a local outing in the Spring to a nearby field full of Wild Daffodils, and we picked the lot! I have a snap of us all with arms full of flowers! I can't remember leaving, though I think I left school at 15 and went to Cardiff to my parents for a short while until the end of the war. I always kept in touch with your Mum, and my first job was in an office in Threadneedle St in London, I was very bored, and Audrey told me there was a vacancy where she worked for BR at Purley, and I joined her on the A1 account, working side by side. At first our fellow workers were often elderly chaps brought in for the ‘War Effort', but later we were joined with chaps just released from the Forces, back to their peacetime jobs they had had. This was much more fun, and we actually enjoyed going to work. This is when I met John , so Audrey was responsible, I realise. We used to go skating after work at Streatham Ice Rink. I thing that’s where your Mum met your Dad I think.
We married in1950, and 2 years later, before Maggie was born your Mum told me about a flat to rent in S Norwood. Which we lived in for 2 years, and I think your uncle Peter lived there, after us. One particular memory was that your Dad hired a car and took us all to Eastbourne for the day, and coming back through East Grinstead we noticed that they were building a new housing estate there, John organised a viewing later, and we moved into our first real home after that. So you see another thing for which I am so grateful to your Mother. We always kept in touch, in fact one of the thing that binds us is that we both contracted TB later in life. Me with a TB Spine, and your Mum spent some time in a Sanatorium Hospiral when you were small. After I recovered my Consultant questioned me about my past life, and when I mentioned that I had been evacuated to Cornwalll during the war as a teenager, he Exclaimed,”Thats it! You had TB tested milk all your young life, and when you lived near London, , and when you later had milk straight from the cow in Cornwall.......full of cream and oosing with bacterial, whereas the local met it at a young age and were protected”.
I met up with you and your Mother quite regularly when you drove her back to Cornwall every year, it shows how we made ourselves at home there as children to want to keep going back. Gill I am looking at this a couple of days later, I wrote this all in a rush, so forgive me, somehow I just wanted to get it all down, and I meant to go back and refine this gabble but looking at it again, it's an honest account of why I am so sad that Audrey is no longer with us, and I shall miss her yearly visits, and remember her Birthday on April the first always. Our Generation are a tough lot, I am glad she had a comfortable passing.....like the Queen. Audreys “best friend”. Molly.

We send our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Audrey Tarrant. Thank you for your kind support at this sad time. Our thoughts are with you.

Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex

R.I.P Audrey

In memory of Audrey Tarrant

What a pleasure to have known Audrey for so many years and what a great supporter of our village of Week St. Mary, north Cornwall, where she spent several years as an evacuee.

In loving memory of Audrey.

Love from Ann, Carol, Jill