My mother, Pam Bagguley, who has died aged 91, was a remarkable and charismatic woman who overcame the untimely death of my father, John, in 1963, and lived a full life taking part in a wide range of activities in and around the New Forest in Hampshire.
Born in Carshalton, Surrey, she was the daughter of William Clayton, head accountant at Southern Railways, and Dorothy (nee Steerman). The family moved to West Sussex during the second world war and Pam attended Hove county grammar school for girls. In 1944 her brother, Rodney, died aged 20 during a wartime RAF training exercise.
