Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ashey Cemetery

Mrs Elsie Margaret (Peggy) Wilshire

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Elsie Margaret (Peggy)
Surnames: Wilshire
Date of Birth: 22/04/1918
Date of Death: 21/03/2001
Age at Death Years: 82
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG A05
Plot Number: Ashey Cemetery Section E Plot 715
Grave Description: White marble kerbs with integral headstone, rose and cross carvings.
Other Information: Added 2nd name, source: Registrars records.
Old Website Grave ID: 13282

Inscription:

Left hand kerb
"BARL" ARTHUR SYDNEY WILSHIRE 26TH MAY 1913 - 20TH NOVEMBER 1982

Right hand kerb
ELSIE WILSHIRE (NEE RENNIE) 22ND APRIL 1918 - 21ST MARCH 2001

Headstone
NEVER TURN DOWN AN INVITATION
AND ALWAYS LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL, FULL, FULLEST
AND THAT IS HOW IT WAS WITH DEAR PEGGY.
HER ZEST FOR LIFE AND ECCENTRIC AND CHARISMATIC PERSONALITY
ATTRACTED PEOPLE LIKE MOTHS TO A LIGHT
AND HER KINDNESS, SYMPATHY AND THOUGHTFULNESS
MEANT THAT THEY NEVER LET HER GO.

... BARL, NEVER FALTERED IN HIS BELIEFS OF RIGHT AND WRONG
A REMARKABLE, DOMINANT MAN WITH A VERY BIG HEART AND SHOULDERS
TO CARRY THE CARES OF THE WORLD.

Photographs:

Carol Strong
A & E 8 March 2012
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
A & E 8 March 2012
Photographer: Carol Strong

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