Family’s farewell to Girl Guider Ros, who brought her talents to many societies
THE funeral of Rosalind Burrows took place at Wicksten Drive Methodist Church on March 15, her death having occurred at Warrington Hospital on February 23, at the age of 97.
Ros was a seamstress, learning her trade at Bostock’s “Wee Moderns” drapers on Bridge Street, Runcorn. She was called up during the Second World War to work at the BICC factory in Helsby. After the closure of Bostocks she worked at the Hobby Shop, Singer Sewing
Machines, the Co-op and Burtons, where she did alterations to tailoring.
She was a lifelong member of the Girl Guide Movement, joining 1st Runcorn Brownies at the age of seven in 1932. She was subsequently a Girl Guide, Sea Ranger, Guider (she set up Weston and Weston Point Guides in 1961) and latterly the founding President and member of the Runcorn North-West Cheshire Trefoil Guild.
She was an active member of Wicksten Drive Chapel, the Grouville Modern Sequence Dancing Group, founder member of the Runcorn Historical Society and the Top Locks Restoration Group.
Ros was above all a devoted wife to Gordon who passed away in 2012.
She is survived by her sister Irene together with sons Roland and Edmund and their wives Anne and Deirdre, grandchildren Richard, Lucy, Elizabeth, Kate and Wesley and great grandchildren Magnus, Minnie,
Wilfred, Matilda, James, Mabel and Arthur.
The Rev Alison Crookes led the service which included readings by Roland and a eulogy given by Edmund. It was followed by cremation at Walton Lea.
Kate and Chris Carrington (granddaughters and their husbands), and Wesley and Sarah Burrows, (grandson and his wife), Andrew and Christine Baker and Trevor Baker (rep Irene Baker),
Ruth and John Quayle (rep Rachel and Jagger and Les and Linda Barnes, B C Canada), Judith Yates, Tony Mills, John and Debbie
Rutter (rep Alison Henson), Carol and Graham Woodier, Chris Bucktrout.
General mourners: Janet Searle, Joan Bazley (rep the Bazley family), Brian Findlow, C and K Davies, Alison and John Haslam, Chris Pullinger, Shirley Green, Barbara Sergent, Betty Davies and Margaret Lambert (rep Rosemary Tollett),
Julie Johnson and partner (rep Gill and Avril), Heather and Peter
Folwell (rep Runcorn Rowing Club), Linda Clifton, Barrie Davidson and Millie Allon (rep Runcorn Guides), Vera Fisher, Sylvia Darlington and Anne Hanks (rep the Townswomen’s Guild), Irene Evans, Pat Pendlebury, Ray Worthington, Marilyn Stokes, Joyce Whitmarsh (rep the Trefoil Guild), Jan Brown and Dorothy Mercer (rep Girl Guiding, Runcorn), John and Anne Graham (Nelson), Lynda Barron, Helen Dutton, Beryl Cleworth and Sophie Mcguire, Alison Clifton Donna Lunt (rep Simonsfield Care Home).
Bearers were Richard Burrows, Chris Carrington, Tom Malam, Stephen Good, Edmund Burrows and Wesley Burrows.