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IN MEMORY
Veronica Baker 24th April 1944 -
4th December 2020
Village Voice February/March 2021
several committees. She was Chair of the
village Mothers Club, secretary then Chair of
Tyler’s Green Middle School PTA and then a
Parent Governor at Sir William Ramsay School.
Veronica started volunteering at the 26th
Howe cub pack, eventually becoming Akela,
throwing herself into all the activities, and
relishing the challenge of being involved in the
organising of the annual Bank Holiday Village
Fayre and yet more fundraising. She retired
from her post as Akela in 1996.
Until March last year Veronica enjoyed
meeting up with friends, old and new at the W.I.
She was a kind, caring, happy lady, who would
help anyone in need. Sadly she passed away just
six months after being diagnosed with a
terminal illness.
As well as her many, many friends, she will
be greatly missed by her husband David,
children Jacqueline, Richard and Matthew and
grandchildren Georgia, Connor, Evie and
Annalise. Jacqueline Baker
Veronica, the eldest of five children was born in
Hazlemere. She attended Hazlemere Church of
England School and then Holmer Green
Secondary .
In 1964 she married David, who she met
three years earlier at a Town Hall dance. They
remained living in Hazlemere until the birth of
their daughter in 1967, when they moved to
Tylers Green. They had two further children,
Richard in 1969 and Matthew in 1971.
Veronica started working at Pembury Grove
School in the early eighties, moving to the
Rayners site of Penn School For The Deaf when
Pembury Grove closed. She remained at
Rayners until her retirement in 2009, but
continued in her roll as an active member of the
fundraising committee, until the schools
eventual closure in 2015.
During her life in the village Veronica was on
www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk
PTG Together and One Can
The team running PTG Together has reviewed
the network across the village, to ensure
everyone has access to support if it's needed.
When we established PTG Together last year
volunteers set up groups of neighbours, to be
able to help when needed, which included a
number of road level What’s app groups, email
networks or just knowing who to contact if you
needed something doing. With the latest
lockdown, if you need support and don’t know
your road contact, contact 01494 623051 and
we will direct you to someone who can help.
PTG Together were also instrumental in
collecting donations for One Can trust and
delivered many ‘carloads’ of generous
donations to the High Wycombe charity.
Currently, we are being careful about asking our
PTG Together volunteers to leave their houses
to arrange the collections and delivery, so if
anyone would like to donate again, please leave
your donation at the Village Shop (or any of the
supermarkets in Beaconsfield and High
Wycombe). Thank you. Madalyn Roker
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