Queenie Cooper, the wife of the late Percy Cooper, one of the first directors of Oxford United Football Club, has died aged 101.

Mrs Cooper was born and raised in Oxford and after leaving school went to work with her father, an Oxford tailor.

However, on her way to a fete, walking up Headington Hill, she had a chance meeting with Percy, a bricklayer with Oxford building firm Knowles and Son.

The couple fell in love and went on to spend more than 50 happy years together after marrying at St John's Church in Cowley on Boxing Day in 1933.

Mr Cooper played a major role in the former Headington United Football Club and later Oxford United and Oxford United Cricket Club.

When featured in the Oxford Mail in 1983, as they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, Mr Cooper joked: "My wife has always tolerated the football and the cricket. She has got her sewing, knitting and crocheting and has always been quite happy with it. We have been lucky."

However, Mrs Cooper was always on hand for club meetings to make a round of sandwiches and to wash kit.

Their home in Old High Street, Headington, even became an unofficial club house for Headington United in its early days.

Mr Cooper died in 1987, but Mrs Cooper continued to keep herself busy.

She again appeared in the Oxford Mail in 2002 at the celebration of her sister Ivy Manners' 100th birthday.

She was joined by her other sisters, Phyllis Day and Bettie Erhardt. Between them they had a combined age of 370 years.

Mrs Cooper later moved into Anchor Court sheltered housing, and here marked her own century with family and friends.

Mrs Cooper died peacefully in Abingdon Hospital on October 9.

She is survived by her only daughter, Joyce.