Pam Williams was a well-known figure in Oxford for more than 70 years, working as a school governor and for a number of different charities and organisations.

Pam (Irene Pamela) Williams (nee Mackenzie) was born in 1925 in Hoylake, Wirral to Irene and Ken Mackenzie. Her father was an accountant in Liverpool.

She went to school at Overstone School in Northamptonshire. After leaving school she worked as a personal assistant to Charles Wells, a surgeon in Liverpool, for seven years.

She met Duncan Williams, who also came from the Wirral, in 1948 and they were married in Hoylake in 1950.

Duncan was already teaching maths at St Edward’s School, and she moved to Oxford, initially in a house in Five Mile Drive.

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Three boys followed, Mike born in 1951, Dave in 1953, and Richard in 1959.

Duncan taught at the school until his retirement in 1984.

He died in 1998.

Mrs Williams was very heavily involved in the school and remained in close contact attending events and reunions until she died.

She will be sadly missed by the school and its alumni.

It is however for her wide-ranging contribution outside the school to many charities and organisations that she will be best remembered by the Oxford community.

Mrs Williams was for many years heavily involved in the local branch of the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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She started off as the secretary, and eventually became chairman and then President.

Over half a century she was instrumental in the running of their annual Garden Market at various locations around North Oxford, latterly at Cherwell School.

She was a governor at Greycotes School in north Oxford for many decades until after it was absorbed into the Junior School at Oxford High School.

Mrs Williams was also a governor at Milham Ford, the former girls’ secondary school in Headington.

She was an active participant in the running of the Oxford Women’s Luncheon Club, for over 25 years. She started as secretary, before becoming chairman and eventually President. She continued to attend lunches until lockdown.

Mrs Williams was a member of the Board of Trustees at Fairfields Residential Care Home on the Banbury Road, for over 20 years.

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She is also known by her many acquaintances for starting up a theatre club in Summertown known as the PBW theatre club, which she continued to attend until earlier this year.

She also had a close association with Sobell House hospice, at the Churchill Hospital in Headington, that lasted for over 30 years.

Mrs Williams led many gardening parties from St Edward’s to care for the grounds.

After retirement she became heavily involved with Duncan when he was the treasurer of the charity (then known as the Friends of Sobell House).

In a few years they helped the charity grow many times over to a point where it was running three shops and turning over £4m a year.

In the last few weeks of her life Sobell House staff were instrumental in overseeing the excellent medical care that she received. In more recent times she joined the local branch of the Wives Fellowship, a local organisation with Christian foundations - the group was founded in 1916 within the Church of England.

Within a short time she was helping organise it and then stepped in to chair it, despite her advanced age.

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Mrs Williams died at home aged 95 on October 27 after a short illness due to cancer. She was known by all for her remarkably positive approach to life, and this attitude remained with her until the end.

She is survived by her three children, Mike, Dave and Richard, her daughter-in-law Helen, and her grandchildren, Duncan, Amy, Alec, Alasdair, Jamie, and Ben.