Phyllis Winifred ALSTON [4620]

  General Notes:

Phyllis was a tall elegant auburn haired woman who, on 2 occasions caused quite a stir in Marseilles (France). Firstly she was the first woman to obtain a driving licence in that town and regularly drove her open-topped Peugeot.
On another occasion, to the joy of the local Frenchmen in the main street, she calmly stepped out of her French Knickers and put them into her handbag, when the elastic failed. She contracted Multiple-Sclerosis when in her late thirties, an illness she uncomplainingly bore with great courage and fortitude for the next 22 years.
After she and William married they were posted to Brussells and Marseilles, returning to the U.K. in 1930.
She died in a nursing home near Liverpool, where she was cremated and her ashes spread, at her request, over the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, which she viewed from her window where she lived in Wellington, Somerset from 1939 to 1958.

Phyllis married William Norman CULVERWELL [4651] [MRIN: 1594] on 12 Aug 1921 in Ilfracombe DEV. (William Norman CULVERWELL [4651] was born on 28 Aug 1895 in Wellington SOM and died on 17 Dec 1958 in Sutton Coldfield WAR.)