MISSING . . .
THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill Whitley.
‘ IT WOULD make me very happy h if I could trace my dear d friend Rosemary Singleton, nee Gordon,’ emails Kathleen Lazell, 73, of Leicester. ‘We met in 1963, when she came c to England from South Africa. We trained as nurses at the Joyce Green Hospital near Dartford, Kent. ‘Our nurses’ home was overseen o by a dragon called a Home Sister. Any male found within a hair’s breadth of the home was in real trouble and a disciplinary action awaited the nurse. It was impossible to smuggle in our boyfriends! Rosie and I shared secrets and laughed for hours, as teenage girls do. ‘She married Jim in 1966 and moved to Scotland. Then he joined the Army and served in Ireland. By that time they had two sons, Brian and Mark. Sadly, Jim was killed in an accident and Rosie returned to England. ‘I saw her in 1972, when she was living in East Malling, Kent, but we lost touch. ‘I was a nurse in Luton and Leicester before retiring. Five years ago, I lost Roger, my husband of 49 years, whom I had known since I was 17.’