Pauline was a local girl; she was actually born just a few miles away at Little Paxton Nursing Home but she spent all of her childhood and teenage days here in Ramsey and it was here that she first met Rob when she was just 16. They married in this very church back in 1974. Some of you, I imagine, would have been here at the wedding. Rob had joined the Royal Air Force and some of the colleagues who formed the guard of honour at the wedding back in '74 are here again today.

Pauline went off with Rob, with the RAF, where she played a full part in the social life at the different RAF stations where she also took to helping with the flower arranging groups and was always involved with the art and decorating at the different Mess and Squadron parties and events. Each time they moved home, which was quite frequent in their early RAF days, it was Pauline who took care of arranging the packing from one house to the unpacking at the next and immediately she would set about creating a new home for Rob and herself, along with their new young family of Kelly & Ben  . . . Pauline would say that Rob always seemed to find an excuse that he was "needed at the Squadron" whenever there were boxes to be unpacked  . . but making and keeping a home for her family was, of course, Pauline's forte.

Pauline and Rob then went on to spend 10 years in Saudi Arabia with the Royal Saudi Air Force where they made many new friends. Again Pauline soon became involved with the flower arranging and the social side of the ex-pat life out there and it was here that she expanded her artistic skills and where she first started producing her well known cartoon Christmas cards  . . something that Pauline continued to do ever since.

And then they came back to the UK, to an old farmhouse in Norfolk, it was Pauline who turned the overgrown spinney into a walkthrough wood, with snowdrops and bluebells and bridges across the waterway, and it was Pauline who renovated and replanted the garden. And it was Pauline again who found them a new home back here in Ramsey in 2011 and who quickly turned the barren, empty ground at the newly built house into a picture garden with numerous shrubs, flower beds and plants. And Pauline soon made a new circle of friends here. She joined the WI and also the Ladies Probus Club  . .  taking on an organising role where she ran the monthly ladies luncheon menus. And within weeks of being back in Ramsey, Pauline had approached the Flower Group at this church to see if she could be of any help. And she certainly proved to be a great help indeed. Pauline became a regular member on the church flower roster and, along with her friend Hilary, Pauline was instrumental in helping to organise the annual flower festivals each year, helping to raise money for the church. The Church Flower Group became a very important part of Pauline's life. She played a large part in helping to ensure that things ran smoothly. She was extremely popular and was loved by her fellow ladies. To that extent it is the Thomas a Becket Flower Group that has arranged the different floral displays today, led by Hilary, with much of the green foliage coming from Pauline's own garden.

Pauline will be remembered by her family and friends for many different reasons. For her smile, for her love of dancing, her kindness, her different artistic skills but most of all for the loving care she showed to everyone that she met. She loved being a friend to so many, she loved her family and she simply adored being a Grandma to both Elsa and Savannah.