Queenie SmithAge: 891921–2010
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- Queenie Smith
| Birth | 10 March 1921 31 28 Address: 8 Croft Street, |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | William Edward Hawthornthwaite 18 August 1949 (Age 28) Address: 8 Croft Street |
| Marriage of a sibling | John Arthur Isam — Edna Smith — View family 29 October 1952 (Age 31) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Clara Shakespeare 18 January 1953 (Age 31) Address: 8 Croft Street |
| Death of a mother | Ada Hawthornthwaite 17 April 1963 (Age 42) |
| Death of a father | Sydney Smith 4 May 1983 (Age 62) |
| Death | 21 December 2010 – 0730 (Age 89) Address: Dewsbury & District Hospital, Staincliffe Note: Information by telephone from hospital to J Hawthornthwaite |
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Birth: 1890 35 35 — Gateshead, County Durham, England Death: 4 May 1983 — Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England |
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Birth: 1893 26 23 — Salford, Lancashire, England Death: 17 April 1963 — Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England |
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Marriage: 1918 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England |
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-1 months elder sister |
Birth: 8 December 1917 27 24 — Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England Death: 3 June 2015 — Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England |
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Birth: 10 March 1921 31 28 — Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England Death: 21 December 2010 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England |
| Death | Information by telephone from hospital to J Hawthornthwaite |
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10 March 1921 to 21 December 2010
Times were hard when Queenie was born. Her mother Ada Hawthornthwaite had moved with her parents from the Manchester cotton mills to find work as a wool spinner in the “heavy woollen” district of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Her father, Sydney Smith, came to Heckmondwike from Gateshead and found work as a wiredrawer in Cleckheaton. In 1917 Ada had a daughter Edna and a year later married Sydney. Queenie's mother, Ada, died in 1963 and Queenie lived with and cared for her father, Sydney, until his death in 1983.
The Second World War intervened in their lives and whilst her father was in a reserved trade working 24hrs a day, 7 days a week and was thus exempt military service, Queenie took the opportunity to join the ATS.
( http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service )
After the war Queenie joined Ineson’s solicitors, in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England, as a clerk and spent many years there, before joining Cadman’s solicitors, also in Cleckheaton, as a solicitors clerk before retiring.
Although, as a young girl, Queenie had a number of boy friends, she never married and, on retirement, lived with her sister Edna, whose husband, Jack had passed on. They had a love of cats and would “catnap” any neighbours cats which strayed too close to the front door. She had a strong religious faith and enjoyed being part of the congregation of the Whitechapel Church, in Cleckheaton where she made many good friends.
In retirement both she and Edna took on a new lease of life, travelling to foreign parts and cruising to nearly all parts of the world. Yet in later life the highlight of their week was to go to Leeds, always beautifully turned out, on the bus, to take coffee in Scholfields, where they both held a “Gold Card”. Contrary to the outward appearance of two elderly ladies in the autumn of their lives both she and Edna embraced modern technology sharing a laptop computer and spending many hours playing games, which helped her through the last few years of very difficult health. She had a strong sense of humour, always with a twinkle in her eye and a happy smile and will be missed.
She would have wished that their neighbours, in particular Molly and Roger, be thanked for their great friendship and help they have given over many years.