My wife, Felicity Feeny, who has died aged 78, was a physiotherapist who spent time in Canada and Nepal, as well as supporting thousands of NHS patients in the UK. Her family and many friends will remember her for her zest for life, anarchic sense of fun and conviction that pretty much any barrier can – and should – be surmounted.
Felicity (known as Flick) was born in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, to Ronald Colwill, a farmer, salesman and poet, and Doreen (nee O’Meara), herself a physiotherapist. The oldest of four children, Flick went to Holy Child convent school in Edgbaston – she hated boarding and railed against the nuns, but threw herself into tennis and hockey, which she loved, along with Angela Brazil-style “scrapes”.
