A woman who played a crucial role in bringing recycling to Great Yarmouth has died at the age of 90-years-old.
From setting up a skatepark and a youth football team to tirelessly fundraising for local charities, Patricia Page has been described by her family as a "formidable" woman who would "help anybody".
Born in London, she moved to Gorleston in 1999 and immediately set about making her mark in the borough.
She was a director at First Move Furnishaid, a charity that redistributes furniture and white goods to people in need, and worked for them for nearly 20 years.
During that time she built strong relationships with her colleagues, especially project manager Michael Jeal who has said the charity would not be here today without her help and support.
Patricia had a gift for raising funds for the organisation and managed to get money for a new van, a community room, a kitchen refurb and most recently a project called ‘Men’s sheds’ for men’s mental health.
In 2008, she was elected to Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) as a councillor for Magdalen Ward.
It was while there she helped set up recycling in the borough, as well as a youth football team and a skate park.
Patricia was born in London to Archie and Lottie O'Hara on Boxing Day, 1932.
She spent most of her life in London and spent many years of her childhood living with her grandparents on Mill Hill Road in Acton, where she used to love listening to her grandfather play coronet and piano.
In 1942, Patricia's sister Wilma was born and she returned to live with her mum, dad and sister. She attended Oriel Junior School and went on to pass the 11 plus exam and get a place at Ashford Grammar School.
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Her first job, at the age of 17-years-old, was at a bank in London. This was the beginning of a full, varied and fulfilling working life.
Most of the jobs she had were at Heathrow airport working in imports and exports before ending in immigration.
She also tried nursing in the early 1960s and was a Marie Curie nurse in the 1980s.
Patricia married twice, in 1952 to Stanley Richardson and in 1973 to Ronald Page. She had five children - Keith, Jacqueline, Denise, Steve and Sarah.
She loved throwing parties and would invite the family over for birthdays, Christmas, Easter and New Year - but she saved the best for Halloween, her favourite festival.
A woman of many talents, Patricia also made and sold wedding cakes, ran a wholefood cookery school from home and she set up a business called Just Sarah’s which produced carob sweets, Christmas figures and Easter eggs which she sold to Harrods.
The only reason the business did not carry on was because Harrods wanted more products from her and she needed money to invest on a more industrial-style kitchen which she could not afford.
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This did not knock her down but she set to doing other things instead.
She played a lead role in the development of Bedfont Lakes – a country park near Heathrow.
In recognition of all the work Patricia did in Great Yarmouth, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Suffolk at East Coast College.
She died on March 7 at the James Paget Hospital.
She is survived by her five children, 11 grandchildren and 15 great grand-children.
At a meeting of full council last week, there was a minute silence for Patricia, and on the day of her funeral on March 28, the borough flag was flown at half-mast.
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