A TRIBUTE TO JOAN POTTER

10th April 2009

When I visited my mother in Bishops Cleeve in April 2009, she showed me an obituary notice in 'The Gloucestershire Echo" of Friday April 3rd 2009, reading: "JOAN POTTER - passed away peacefully on 24th March 2009 at Orchard House Nursing Home, Bishops Cleeve, aged 88 years. Her funeral service was held at Bishops Cleeve Methodist Church on Thursday 9th April at 2.00 pm. Joan was the widow of Bill Potter who died twelve years earlier in 1997. This small selection of photographs, most of which had been taken by Bill, is intended as a tribute to a friend who is now sadly missed by all who knew her. She loved travelling, writing poetry and drawing and painting scenes from nature and I have many poems that she sent to me along with the many letters she wrote to me over the years. She lived with Bill in a house in Meadoway Bishops Cleeve and continued to live there for several years after his passing, but unfortunately after suffering a series of falls at home she had to be admitted to Orchard House Nursing Home in Bishops Cleeve where she was cared for until her passing. This tribute is posted here in the hope that it may remind others who knew her that she was a kind soul who does not deserve to be forgotten.

Joan and Margaret stand beside 0-6-0T 47308 at Gloucester Eastgate Station on 7th July 1963 (Picture by Bill Potter) 4148x2779 Joan_Potter_-_070763.jpg Buy Print	Joan Potter enjoys lunch at the Pheasant Inn, Toddington on 19th October 1997. (Picture by Bernie Holland) 4148x2818 Joan_Potter_-_191097.jpg Buy Print	Joan stands beside "City of Truro" at an Open Day at Swindon on 30th October 1990 (Picture by Bill Potter) 4239x2818 Joan_Potter_-_301090.jpg Buy Print	Joan stands beside "Evening Star" at an Open Day at Swindon on 3rd July 1990 (Picture by Bill Potter) 4239x2818 Joan_Potter_-_030790.jpg Buy Print
Joan and Margaret on the Butterwalk, Dartmouth on 25th June 1960 (Picture by Bill Potter) 4186x2818 Joan_Potter_-_250660.jpg Buy Print	Joan is seen sitting on the seawall at Teignmouth on 31st August 1963 (Picture by Bill Potter) 4114x2702 Joan_Potter_-_310863.jpg Buy Print	Joan and Margaret are seen aboard the "Cutty Sark" on 11th October 1959 (Picture by Bill Potter) 2702x4114 Joan_Potter_-_111059.jpg Buy Print	Joan and Margaret are pictured on the recently completed Saltash Road Bridge on 13th August 1962 (Picture by Bill Potter) 2599x3576 Joan_Potter_-130862.jpg Buy Print