Lois Hey
A woman who championed conservation issues in the small Cotswold town of Charlbury has died, aged 82.
Lois Hey was a founder member of the Charlbury Conservation Area Advisory Committee and a keen supporter of the Charlbury Society and the town museum.
She was fascinated by local history and only last year saw her book on the town which became her adopted home go into print.
Miss Hey came to Charlbury from York with her father when he retired in 1953, and lived in Enstone Road. In the 1980s she moved to The Green and became closely involved in the life of the town. She was chairman of the Charlbury Conservative Association and a requent contributor to the letter pages of The Oxford Times.
Her book, A History of Charlbury, the fruit of 15 years of research, was published last year by the Wychwood Press, a Charlbury- based company set up by Jon Carpenter.
The book followed a project she undertook to transcribe the registers at the parish church of St Mary. Royalties were given to Charlbury Museum.
Her funeral service, held at the town cemetery, was taken by Charlbury's vicar, the Rev Judith French.
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