Rosalyn Crouch  (1947 – 2023)

The Town Council was saddened to learn that Rosalyn Crouch, who was a Town Councillor from 1991 to 1995, passed away at the beginning of June. Ros was born in Oxford and bought up on the Risinghurst estate. She was educated at Milham Ford School where she became head girl. She trained as a teacher   and taught first at Manor Road School in Didcot and later at Cholsey School. She was active in Didcot Labour Party and the local Shelter group from the early 1970s. She moved to Thame with her young family in 1983 and worked as a supply teacher for several years before joining the staff of Mill Lane School in Chinnor.

During the 1980s she participated enthusiastically in the annual Thame carnival helping her young daughters dress up for the colourful float that Coombe Hill Crescent residents organised each year and with her husband, running the Labour Party hot dog stall.

Ros was a talented artist, expressing her ideas in many-coloured quilts and textile art. She was a member of the local group Sparksartists and contributed textile based works to several of their exhibitions. She also ran a quilting group for Thame and District U3A for a number of years and a U3A music group with her husband.