Commemoration Service
A service commemorating Somervillians, to be held in the College Chapel.
Every year the College holds a Commemoration Service to remember all those Somervillians who have died during the previous year. The Service this year will be held on Saturday 9th June at 2.30pm in the College chapel and there is a list of those to be commemorated; see below. All Somervillians are welcome to attend the Service.
Please email Liz Cooke (elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk) if you are aware of the death of any other Somervillian during the last year whose name does not appear on our list.
Click here to view the commemoration address given by Professor Joanna Innes.
The following Somervillians will be commemorated in the College Chapel.
Jennifer Bell née Grindley (1963, Lit Hum) on 28 May 2017 Aged 71
Maureen Ann Birukowska née Booth (1954, Zoology/Medicine) on 6 June 2017 Aged 81
Phyllis Mary Barbara Boardman née Boyce (1943, English) on 7 June 2017 Aged 92
Marjorie Boulton (1941, English) on 30 August 2017 Aged 93
Nancy Joyce Bower née Thompson (1939, Mod Langs) on 6 November 2017 Aged 95
Diana Margaret Brown née Clements (1957, Mathematics) on 20 May 2017 Aged 80
Hilary Marian Bryson née Colvin (1952, Zoology) on 9 November 2017 Aged 85
Sarah Barbara Canning (1950, Jurisprudence) on 12 September 2017 Aged 86
Shirley Anne Carnell née Mair (1954, History) on 8 December 2017 Aged 82
Joan Patricia Christodoulou née Edmunds (1951, History) on 30 September 2017 Aged 84
Ellen Rhoda Christian ‘Kisty’ Creighton née Barclay (1946, Lit Hum) on 16 June 2017 Aged 91
Mary Elizabeth Dainty née Elbeck (1938, Zoology) on 27 March 2018 Aged 98
Annie Kathleen ‘Kay’ Davies (1937, History) on 11 November 2017 Aged 98
Felicity Clare Edwards née Toussaint (1945, Phys. Sciences) in March 2018 Aged 90
Judith Claire Gray née Campbell (1957, English) on 25 December 2017 Aged 81
Miriam Griffin née Dressler (1957, Lit Hum; Fellow 1967-2002, Emeritus Fellow 2002) on 16 May 2018 Aged 82
Sheila Harris (1943, Lit Hum) on 19 January 2018 Aged 92
Pamela Sarah Haynes née Powell (1947, History) on 18 August 2017 Aged 87
Virginia Mary Hope Holt née White (1956, History) on 1 January 2018 Aged 79
Tamsyn Imison née Trenaman (1957, Medicine; Honorary Fellow 1999) on 18 September 2017Aged 80
Eucacia Mary ‘Laetitia’ Kikonyogo née Mukasa (1964, Dip. Social Anthropology) on 23 November 2018 Aged 77
Margaret Stewart McLaren Kohl née Cook (1944, English) on 10 September 2017 Aged 91
Florence ‘Eileen’ Leonard née Bellsham (1934, History) on 6 May 2017 Aged 101
Judith Ann Lovelace (1963, Lit Hum) on 7 November 2017 Aged 72
Helen Margaret ‘Sue’ Low (1949, PPE) née Carpenter on 26 April 2018 Aged 91
Frances Mary Gabriele ‘Fanny’ Mallary née Neville-Rolfe (1973, History) on 26 October 2017 Aged 62
Annie ‘Pamela’ Mason née Rhodes (1943, Mod Langs) on 7 June 2017 Aged 92
Mairi Clare McCormick née MacInnes (1943, English) on 14 September 2017 Aged 92
Marian June McKellar (1946, Mod Langs) on 27 October 2017Aged 90
Barbara Marion Mitchell née Davies (1941, Lit Hum) on 12 October 2017 Aged 93
Felicity Diane Morrogh née Chugg (1952, English) in about December 2016 Aged 85
Ursula Budynge Mullard née Stibbs (1944, English) on 5 October 2017 Aged 91
Elizabeth ‘Biz or Bess’ Murray née Hickson (1951, Zoology) on 31 March 2017 Aged 83
Beatrice Musgrave née Falkenstein (1945, English) on 26 May 2017 Aged 93
Denise Marie O’Donnell (Bursar) on 25 November 2017 Aged 85
Sheila Constance Leonard Ormerod née Preece (1945, History) on 8 December 2017 Aged 90
Eleanor ‘Rosalind’ Page née Pollard (1935, French) on 13 August 2017 Aged 101
Christian Mary Parham née Fitzherbert (1950, History) on 22 April 2017 Aged 84
Margaret Jessie Pope-Hathersley née Leary (1955, BLitt Student) in 2018 Aged 83
Joyce Sayer née Buxton (1954, Biochemistry) on 11 August 2017 Aged 93
Pauline Bladon Topham (1947, Mod Langs) on 4 April 2017 Aged 89
Clare Anne Jeanne Toynbee (1967, English) on 19 April 2017 Aged 68
Anne Marie Treisman née Taylor (1957, Psychology; Lecturer 1964-5) on 9 February 2018 Aged 82
Mavis Dorothy Ward née Smith (1944, Chemistry) on 2 December 2017 Aged 91
Ann Whitaker (1946, PPE) on 8 May 2017 Aged 94
Jacqueline Isabel Woodfill née Iselin (1940, English) in about April 2017 Aged 94
Margaret Wright (1957, Clinical Medicine) on 8 December 2017 Aged 86