A service of celebration for Gwen Hicks has been held at Didcot Methodist Church.

Mrs Hicks, who was 83, died at Ladygrove Home, Didcot, where she had lived for three years.

She was born in Reading and lived in Swindon, before moving to Didcot.

She and her family lived in Sinodun Road and later in Barnes Close.

Her late husband Eric was a postman.

Mrs Hicks was a former member of the Bright Hour Ladies Group at the Methodist Church and Didcot Pensioners' Association.

She is survived by a son and a daughter, three grandsons, a granddaughter, and four great-grandchildren.

The family have requested people to make donations, through the family, to Ladygrove Home or Ridgeway Day Hospital.