One of Wantage's oldest residents, whose life spanned three centuries, has died peacefully at the age of 102.

Charlotte Miller, who lived in sheltered accommodation in Maryfield, died on Friday, April 5.

Mrs Miller became one of the first tenants of the housing scheme when she moved there in 1974.

She is fondly remembered by former staff as a proudly independent woman, who kept her energy and lust for life to the end.

Jan Panter, of Boucher Close, Grove, who knew Mrs Miller firstly as a carer, then as a friend, said: "She was the sort of person who likes to look on the bright side of life. "She was such a fighter, there was a really tough side to her character. You would go into her flat and Pavarotti would be blaring out and she would be dancing with her Zimmer frame."

Mrs Miller was born Charlotte Deacon in 1899, and worked as a dressmaker in her early life before becoming a manager of nursing accommodation in Hammersmith, London.

She married twice, firstly to Ernie York, from whom she was widowed, then Gilbert Miller. She had no children.

Her funeral was held at Oxford Crematorium on Friday.