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League Garden
Fete
Summer 1965
Another £30 was added to Heatherwood Hospital Ascot Chapel building fund
following a garden fete at the home of Mrs Alice Pack on Saturday. A fine
afternoon brought the crowds to Delfryn, Devenish road Sunningdale
where a variety of Stalls were manned by friends of the hospital. Several
nurses from the hospital were released from their ward duties to serve teas.
Treasurer Mr Stanley Marshall urged visitors to try their luck at bottle
stall while Miss Tilly and Miss Michael Cory persuaded bargain hunters to
gamble in the competition. Mrs Pat Stockman was on the flower stall and the
shop stall was run by Mrs Etteridge. Comment:- The league of friends were in the process of major fund raising
for the new chapel to be built in the grounds of the hospital. Mrs Etteridge
was instrumental in seeing this project come to fruition. The
fund raising venture was just one of many at the time.
The chapel of St Luke was presented to the hospital in 1966 at a cost of £7500.
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Press Report Summer 1965
Tears in the Matron’s
Eyes
A Fond Farewell.
A large basket of pink flowers and a £100 cheque brought tears to the eyes of
Miss Doris Howes, Matron of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. as she said goodbye to
her staff on Friday Miss Howes, a matron for 21 years the last 16 at
Heatherwood, is retiring to her country cottage. She spoke of her exciting years at the hospital, which had grown from a small
orthopaedic unit into a general hospital.
Miss Howes praised members of her staff for the support they had given during
her term in office.
“ My nurses never cease to surprise me with their untiring devotion to duty and
are not at all like the general idea of the modern teenager ” she added. Comment:- Miss Howes came to Heatherwood in 1949. As with all Matrons’ she
stamped her mark on Heatherwood and the community. Doris
Howes had compiled a wish list for the hospital and top of her list was a
chapel for the hospital. The league acted upon this list and the rest is
history. In 1964 she was made an
honorary member of Ascot Inner wheel club for the work she had done for
others.
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Doris &
Friend
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