A funeral service was held at All Saints’ Parish Church, Driffield on Friday, 13 May, for Mrs Maureen Bowtell who died on Friday, 29 April.
The service was conducted by the Rev Jacki Tonkin and the organist was Mr Martin Salter.
Maureen was born in Brid-lington in 1950, she was the youngest of five children of Nora and Arthur Keld. She attended school in Bridlington and then Bridlington High School. After leaving school she went to Nottingham to train as a radiographer.
She met her husband to be Dennis at a folk club in Scarborough and they later married.Maureen gave up the radiography work when the children came along, Daniel, Andrea, James and Michael.
Maureen loved music, she loved to sing, she loved James playing the piano and the others guitars. She was an excellent cook and she passed on her skills to her children. She enjoyed knitting, sewing, crochet and cross stitch, she loved exercise, a keen walker together the family have done all the Yorkshire long distance walks, recently taken to cycling the family would do 30-40 miles a day.
Maureen delighted in her garden and she spent hours tending it.
She was a great homemaker and she was very proud of her children and she delighted in her grandchildren and will be greatly missed.
Family mourners: Dennis Bowtell (husband), Daniel and Carole Bowtell (son and daughter in law), Andrea and Andrew Leek (daughter and son in law), James and Keeley Bowtell (son and daughter in law), Michael Bowtell and Olivia Beaven (son and partner), Kenneth Bowtell (brother in law), Geoff and Barbara Hughes (brother in law and sister in law), Clive and Natasha Hughes (nephew and wife), Ceridwen Knee (niece), David Hughes (nephew) rep Eliza Hughes, Barbara Reynolds (sister), Ian and Pauline Keld (brother and sister in law), Kathleen and Tony Robson (sister and brother in law), Tina Smith (sister), Paul and Tracy Reynolds (nephew and wife), Tracy Smith, Maureen Sellars, Shane and Jenny Keld, Audrey Emmerson, Brian Smith, Paige Robson, Grae Robson, Katrina Emmerson, Tanya Emmerson (nieces and nephews).
Others present: Jan and Tony Gowforth, Nicky Gowforth, Mr and Mrs D Watson, Mrs V Ellwood, Betty Bell rep Pam Towse, Philip and Pauline Hyde rep Zoe and Scott Leonard, Ron and Audrey Turner rep Rebecca, Godfrey and Molly Middlewood rep Maurice, Lynn and Matthew Hardy, Ramona Holt, George and Marian Harris Angela Tate rep David and Gemma, Debbie Ward, Michael and Joan Godwin, Becca Derbyshire, Patricia Jowett, Kim and Ruth Fullam, Mrs Ann Beal rep John Taylor, Pam Dossor, Joan Naylor, Ruth Pearson, Janet Woodcock rep Pam Woodcock, Pat Jefferson, Jean and Robert Bratten, Meg Richardson rep Mary Cowley, David and Marlene Webster, Rachel Osborne, Sally Morton, Barbara and Terry Newlove, Edna Parker, Karen and Bryan Witty, Charles and Angela Wiles, Richard Wiles rep Gill Peeke and family, Mavis Bishop, Ian Blackburn rep Kathryn and family, David and Hazel Bishop, Jane Turner, Dorothy and Peter Dix, Karen Shanks rep James Aylmer-Shanks and Joanne Hetherington, John Leason rep Stephanie, Mark and Jonathan Leason, John Robson, Margaret Wiles rep Marlene Petch and family, Sandra Maxwell.
Daphne Hyde rep family, Melanie Campbell, Georgina Dean, Mary and Sandy Williamson, Pam Webb-Ingall, Steve and Jenny Sissons, Doug and Brenda Longbottom, Norman Bowtell, Eileen Simpson, Robert Mumby, Rob Couch, Martin Smart, Darrell Smart, Diane Robson, Joseph Wright rep Thomas Wright and Kathryn Wright, Megan Warnes, John and Susan Goff, Julie Gray rep Christopher Gray, Hilda Cowling, Valerie and Martin Salter, Joan and Tony Straker rep Cath Sanders, Mr B Thompson, Pat Dixon, Laura Hyde, Guy Raines, Margaret Gowland rep Miss A Aconley, Brian and Christine Rookes, Mrs G Mumby, Jodie Tate rep Victoria Wood, Liz Dewsbury, Roger and Elizabeth Gooch, Lesley Kay, Joanne Collier, Jason Thompson, Matthew Brown, Margaret Moulds, Brian and Jane Cox rep Jonathan Cox and Ben Jackson, Tina Greaves, Amy Bradley, Ruby Price, Mr and Mrs G Brown rep Mr and Mrs D Ward, Peter and Ann Bernard, Karen Skelton, Diana Kirby, June and Tony Wilson rep the family, Ann Brown, Maureen Harrison, Sue Thackray rep Driffield Infants School.
Julie Raimes rep Driffield Infants School, Denise Stead rep Driffield Infants School, Tim Nicholson, Ann and Steve Nicholson, Joanne Giles, Amy Thompson, Janet Blakeston, Frank and Florence Russell, Sheila Taylor, Julian and Sandy Watson, John Couch rep Clive Biddulph, Judy English Joy Waite, John and Carol Quinney, Ann and William Wilkinson, Janet and Steve Lewis, Will and Ruth Rogerson, Alison Young rep Driffield Infants School, Michelle Hudson rep Maria Taylor-Pick, Kath Hawkins, David and Margaret Trow, John and Jenny Semmens rep Heather and Craig, Francis Davies, Ann Knaggs, Debbie Sutton rep Driffield Infants School, Gavin and Sonia Barker, Sandra Barker rep Geoff Barker.
Jill Morfitt, Mr and Mrs F Beere, Mark Turner, Chris and Charlotte Shipley, Rose Newlove rep Noreen Rowley, Julie ison, Mrs C Simpson, Alwin and Ellen Rowley, Dennis and Pamela Carter, Elaine Pymm, Peter and Heather Reed, Mark Roberts, Bill Rogerson, Carole Rogerson rep Grace Rogerson, Sam Kitching, Shirley Franklin MBE rep Diane Reeves (Maidstone, Kent), Tom Clemmit rep Rupert Clemmit, Marlene Leek, Zoe Leek, Mark Ellwood.