Former shop owner Olive Hall died last Friday at the age of 88 at Claremont Nursing Home, on Gastard Road in Corsham.

Mrs Hall, was born in Dursley, Gloucestershire and grew up there with her four brothers.

After leaving school, she went on to work in a clothes store in her home town but when the Second World War broke out she worked for Listers engineering company.

In 1940 she married Robert Marcey and they spent just three weeks together before he was sent to South Africa to service Spitfires by the RAF but on his way over there Pearl Harbor was attacked and he was sent to Singapore.

When the Japanese invaded he was taken prisoner and he died nine months later. Mrs Hall remained unaware of his death until the war had ended and one of his comrades told her the news.

She carried on living in Dursley later meeting her second husband Kenneth Hall and marrying him in 1948. They moved to Wiltshire when he got a job as a lecturer at Chippenham College.

Mrs Hall was a full-time mum to Bryan, now 60 and Nicholas, 55 at their home at Bradford Road, Pickwick.

In the mid-60s she opened up her own wool shop in Corsham High Street. She ran this for 20 years as well as a wool club at her home before retiring in her 60s.

During her retirement she moved to Hawthorn and became a member of Box Moonrakers club.

Five years ago the couple moved into Claremont Nursing Home where Mrs Hall looked after her husband until his death three years ago. She leaves behind her two children and three grand children, Deborah, 22, Sarah, 19, and Jonathan,15.

A service will be held in her memory at Box Parish Church on Saturday at 2.30pm. Donations can be to the Alzheimers Society c/o of J Bewley, Merrett, Corsham.