THE funeral takes place tomorrow of a retired Anglican priest who was one of the first women to be ordained.
The Reverend Marjorie Brook, a former chairwoman of Saltburn Churches Together, died in a retirement home at Saltburn, where she had moved to from Middlesbrough.
She was 83 and had been ill for several years, but she remained cheerful and positive.
Middlesbrough-born Miss Brook was active in the town's Emmanuel Church, where her funeral will be held.
Her mother always took her and her sister, Evelyn, to neighbouring Redcar, when they were children in the 1920s. She moved to Saltburn, in 1983.
Born in 1923, Ms Brook lived on Middlesbrough's Grove Hill estate, and was the daughter of a French polisher.
She worked as a sales assistant at Binns, in Middlesbrough, and then after war service, as a warrant officer with the Territorial Army.
After nine years, she joined the Church Army, in Germany, then worked as a licensed lay worker in Middlesbrough until 1983.
In 1994, she fulfilled her life's ambition by becoming one of the first women to be ordained a priest.
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