tributeS have been paid to a former school headteacher and church organist.
Gladys Clough, of St Anne's Crescent, Catterick Village, died on March 5, aged 90.
Mrs Clough, who preferred to be called simply G, was the headteacher at Middleton Tyas Primary School for ten years in the 1960s and 1970s.
Originally from Newcastle, Mrs Clough moved to Bugthorpe, near York, when her husband, the Reverend Thomas Clough, became the church minister.
She had previously trained as a teacher in Darlington.
After her husband's death, Mrs Clough moved north to become headteacher at Middleton Tyas.
After living in Richmond and then Middleton Tyas, Mrs Clough settled in Catterick Village following her retirement.
Her only child, Elizabeth Nicholson, 60, said her mother was an artistic and caring woman who painted and played the violin and piano, plus the church organ at Holy Trinity Church, Tunstall.
"She was a committed Christian who liked helping people," said Mrs Nicholson.
A funeral service for Mrs Clough's was held yesterday at Tunstall Church, followed by a cremation in Darlington.
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