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And here's something more official supplied by Peter
Elliott:
From The Rotherham and District Annual for 1957:-
Mrs Ivy Lilian Habershon, widow of Mr A R Habershon, was born in India on
August 9th 1892, and received her education at the Royal School for daughters of
Officers of the Army at Bath. Married in July 1914, at St John's Church ,
Blackheath. Mayoress of Rotherham, 1922; appointed W. V. S. Centre Organiser,
1939. J. P. 1943. Keenly interested in social, cultural and welfare activities.
Awarded O.B.E. 1955.
Click here for a letter from Ivy to Margaret
Habershon
Extracts sent by Peter:
Rotherham Advertiser 24 Oct. 1953
"In tracing Mrs Ivy Habershon there is no need whatever of subtle,
sleuth methods to find out wherein her main interests lie. They are
apparent to all who know her; and that seems to be everybody in Rotherham and
its neighbourhood. Indeed to glance at the many activities with which she
is associated is to become aware of the great number of organisations whose
function is the service of others. Brought up from the age of
eight-and-a-half in a Stockport vicarage, where there was a large family, her
early training was essentially that of lending a hand; and she has never
forgotten it. Incidentally, too, the industrial background of Stockport
made a strong appeal to her when she came to Rotherham, where she instinctively
felt at home."
Rotherham Advertiser 11 June 1955
"In the Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on Thursday, there
will be general satisfaction throughout the town and district at the inclusion
of the name of Mrs Ivy L Habershon, J.P., very properly regarded as the 'Lady
Bountiful' of Rotherham."
Sheffield Star 16 August 1962
"The death has occurred of Mrs Ivy Lilian Habershon, Rotherham
magistrate and former mayoress, who was probably the keenest social worker the
town has ever known."
After her death a memorial seat and bronze plaque was placed in Clifton Park
,Rotherham. Peter is going to try and find it sometime.
30 August 2006
Peter Elliott has come across some information about Ivy's mother.
She was Lilly Eliza Attree, who married Herbert Edmund Winter in
the December quarter of 1889. She was born in Dartford in the
September quarter of 1868. She was 21 when she married and 47
when she died in 1915.
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